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Bosnia-Herzegovina and the UN Security Council

Fri, Oct 30 2009 09:59 CET byKevin Beck 470 Views
Bosnia-Herzegovina has been elected to a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

The Security Council contains 15 member countries. Five of these countries have veto power and the other 10 countries do not, but can use limited power to block UN resolutions.
This is a historic moment for Bosnia-Herzegovina, as this fragmented and war-damaged republic was the scene of genocide of its population by Serbian and Croatian militaries from 1992-1995.

On October 26, the trial of chief Serb ultra-nationalist and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic began in a United Nations courtroom in The Hague, Netherlands, for his part in the 1992-1995 war in which hundreds of thousands of people, mainly civilians, were killed.

The Yugoslav army used tactics including siege, massive artillery bombardment and sniping of schools and hospitals. Ethnic cleansing, forced displacement and targeting of cultural institutions and orphanages were employed in a project of total elimination of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s residents.

The fact that Bosnia-Herzegovina survived and is now, more than 14 years after the end of the war against its existence, a member of the United Nations Security Council, is remarkable as the small Balkan nation has seen much suffering and challenges, but has survived.

 

Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada

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