Identify the Best Arguments for Each Side

Check the boxes below to indicate for each item which supports Yugoslavia and which supports Bosnia. Your score will be determined by how well you understand which items support each side.

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The strongest arguments for each state's position are:

Bosnia	Yugoslavia
		Bosnia was not a party to the Genocide Convention during the alleged violation
		The Security Council arms embargo violates Bosnia's right to self defense
		Only the Security Council may order provisional measures after war has begun
		The fighting in Bosnia is a civil war not an international conflict
		Ethnic cleansing is a form of genocide
		The Genocide Convention applied to Bosnia from its independence day
		The Genocide Convention does not apply to casualties in military conflict
	The facts that support each state's case are:
		The indictment of Yugoslav soldiers by the War Crimes Tribunal
		Security Council resolutions that condemn ethnic cleansing
		Evidence that Yugoslavia's army units never entered Bosnian territory
		Bosnian Muslim's killing and deportation of Serbs, destruction of religious monuments
		U.N. human rights Special Rapporteur finding that Serbian ethnic cleansing did not appear to be a consequence of the war, but rather its goal.
		The U.N. Secretary General accepted Bosnia as a successor treaty party rather than as a new state acceding to the Genocide Convention
	Prior legal doctrines that support each state's case are:
		ICJ decision against Libya's challenge to Security Council sanctions
		ICJ decision on provisional measures on behalf of Nicaragua
		Rules governing when states obtain treaty rights
		U.N. Charter Article 51 on the right to self defense
		Standard of proof required to establish genocidal intent

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