What legal authority does the international community have for putting Slobodan Milosevic on trial for destroying historic World Heritage sites in Dubrovnik?
A. Over 100 nations are now parties to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (not yet ratified by United States). This treaty has significantly influenced the international law of war, and the intentional destruction of historic monuments is now appearing in international agreements and treaties as a war crime. The bombing of Dubrovnik, unlike the Taliban’s destruction of the Afghan Buddhas, occurred amid the armed conflict that arose among the states formed after the nation of Yugoslavia dissolved.
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