Morgan Institute for Human Rights

 

Bosnia was not a party to the Genocide Convention during the alleged violation

Bosnia's contested secession of 1992 was illegal. Even if Bosnia had legitimately been recognized as independent by year's end, the new government would not be a party to the Genocide Convention until ninety days after its December notice to the U.N. Thus under convention Article XIII Bosnia became a proper party in March 1993, on the "ninetieth day following the deposit of the instrument."

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