United Nations
Security Council
S/1994/674 - 27 May 1994
Final Report of the Commission of Experts
Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992)
INTRODUCTION BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL
- MANDATE, STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF WORK
- Mandate
- Composition
- Internal working methods
- Funding of the work of the Commission
- Coordination and cooperation with other bodies and
organizations
- Investigation methods employed by the Commission
- Collection and analysis of information
- Investigative missions
- Information gathering on behalf of the
Commission by certain Governments
- Confidentiality of information
- Plan of work of the Commission
- Conclusion of the work of the Commission
- Acknowledgements
- Nature of the report
- APPLICABLE LAW
- International/non-international character of the
conflict
- Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949
and Protocols I and II
- Customary international law of armed conflict
- Command responsibility
- Superior orders
- Reprisals
- Interference with humanitarian aid convoys
- Crimes against humanity
- Armed conflict
- Protected persons
- Acts constituting crimes against humanity
- Widespread and systematic nature of the acts
- Genocide
- The extent of destruction of a group
- The groups protected
- Intent
- Acts constituting the crime of genocide
- Punishable acts
- Culpability
- The Statute of the International Tribunal for
the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for
Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of
the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
- Legal aspects of rape and other sexual assaults
- GENERAL STUDIES
- The military structure of the warring factions and
the strategies and tactics they employ
- ``Ethnic cleansing''
- SUBSTANTIVE FINDINGS
- The study of Opstina Prijedor, a district in
north-western Bosnia: alleged genocide and
massive violations of the elementary dictates of
humanity
- General description
- Serbs take power on 30 April 1992
- Immediate consequences of the Serbs taking
power
- The major Serbian military operations in the
district
- Concentration camps and deportation
- The strategy of destruction
- The general lack of protection for non-Serbs
- Responsibility
- Conclusions
- The battle and siege of Sarajevo
- Structure and location of forces in and around
the city
- Location and nature of the artillery
- Frequency of shelling
- Systematic shelling of specific targets
- Patterns of random shelling
- Link between shelling activity and political
events
- Sarajevo investigation
- Medak Pocket investigation
- Detention facilities
- Bosnian Government camps
- Bosnian-Croat, Croatian Defence Council,
Croatian Government and Croatian Army camps
- ``Bosnian Serb Republic'' camps
- Rape and other forms of sexual assault
- Rape and sexual assault study: the
Commission's database
- Pilot study on rape
- Rape and other forms of sexual assault:
interviewing victims and witnesses
- Mass graves
- Investigation of grave sites at Ovcara near
Vukovar (UNPA, Sector East, Croatia)
- Investigation of grave sites near Pakracka Poljana
(UNPA, Sector West, Croatia)
- Destruction of cultural property
- Dubrovnik investigation
- Radiological investigation (UNPA, Sector West)
- GENERAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Credit for conversion of the Final Report to hypertext form: Jean-Luc Maillot, maillot@emse.fr.