Supplement to the Application and to the Second Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures submitted by the Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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SUPPLEMENTTO THE REQUESTFOR THE INDICATION OF

PROVISIONAL MEASUru~s OF PROTECTIONSUBMITTEDBY THE
GOVERNMENO TF THE REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA ANDHERZEGOVINA

August 1993

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To His Excellency the President, to the Judges of the

International Court of Jus·tice, the undersigned being duly
authorized by the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina:

I have the honor to r·:=fer to the REQUESTFOR THE INDICATION
OF PROVISIONALMEASURESOF PROTECTIONSUBMITTEDBY THE GOVERNMENT
OF THE RE~U~LIC OF BOSNIA ;;ND HERZEGOVINA,that I filed with the
Court on d..._(J. ly 199 3. For reas ons fully explained therein, I
respectfully reserved "the right to amend, supplement, or alter,
this Request for additional provisional measures at any tirne."
Since that date of filing, numerous facts have corne to my
attention that have a deci:3ive bearing upon our Request. For this

reason, I hereby supplemen·t Sect:j.,on B of our Request as follows:

B• Chronology of l\;p_gn_d·ant's Violations of This Court ' s Order
of 8 April 1993.

22 August 1993

Sarajevo marked its 500th day under Serbian guns this week.

In those 500 days, more than 9,000 people have been killed and
another 54,000 wounded.
In addition, foreign policy analyst Jonathan Eyal of the
Royal United Services Institute stated that the focus on an
interna! Bosnian solution was misplaced. He blamed power-hungry
dictator Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia [Serbia and Montenegro]
and his quest for a Greate:r Serbia for the war in Bosnia. "New
Bosnia Peace Plan," .c.N::N2:2 August 1993.

23 August 1993

Under the current peace plan, the Bosnian Serbs are allowed
to keep a swath of northeast Bosnia, where their forces committed
sorne of the worst human ri9hts abuses in the war.
Analysts also added that the carve-up sends a signal to the
world that if a nations wishes to seize another's territory, the
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"Geneva Accord Rewards Bosnia's Harmongers," The Times, 23 August
1993.

The fifth Unite:a Stat,9s State Department official resigned
over u.s. and world policy regardi,g Bosnia. In his resignation
statement, Stephen Walker announce

"Genocide is taking place one again in Europe, yet we, the
European Community and the re t of the international
community stand by and watch. 'lie have been publicly
committed to Bosnia-H•:rzegovi a's territorial integrity, yet
we now tacitly approv·: of its forcible dismemberment and
division along ethnie lines."

"Another u.s. Official Resigns Ove Bosnia Policy," Reuters, 23
August 1993.

24 August 1993

Cherif Bassiouni, head of the UN "Experts Commission"
investigating war crimes, while underfunded by the UN, has still
managed to collect allegations of 25,000 crimes in Bosnia based on
religious and ethnie hatred. Most involve allegations against the
Serbs. "UN Needs Ta Focus on Har ..crimes Tribunal," Chicag.Q

Tribune, 24 August 1993.

Patrick Glynn of CQmm:ntarY- magazine and Henry Siegman, a
formEr Holocaust survivor and executive director of the American
Jewish Congress, have pointed out that the real goal of the Serbs
is to extinguish Bosnia as a state and destroy its people. Bath
noted that the world' s exp:ressions of impotence against the
genocide in Bosnia are reminiscent of the sarne arguments the world
used in stating its helplessness to help the Jews of Nazi Germany.
Glynn warned of the consequences when he stated:

"Tyrants motivated by nothing more complicated than
primitive ethnie fanaticism are allowed to get away with

mass murder. The voices of the rational and the tolerant -
for example, officiais of the secular-rninded Bosnian
government - have been drowned out by the guns of the ethnie
fanatics."

"Bosnia: Abandonment Again," The Washington Post , 24 August
1993.

' The foreign ministry of The Netherlands expressed concern
over the peace plan offered by the Serbs and Croats. A spokesman
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"Its the division of Bosnia that worries us - whether a

Muslim state can survive (in the form envisaged under the
plan)."

"Dutch To Voice Doubts Over Latest Bosnia Peace Plan," Reuters, 24
August 1993.

25 August 1993

A charity worker, stating that he bad arrived from Blagaj,
reported that there were 10,000 Muslirns trapped there, starving.
"The West's Last Chance To Frevent A Winter Tragedy," The DailY­
Telegraph, August 25, 1993.

Respectfully submitted by,

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Francis A. Boyle
Professer of International Law
General Agent for the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina Before the
International Court of Justice.,,

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Supplement to the Application and to the Second Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures submitted by the Government of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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