2014/1 - K. Azra, The court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its sisyphean task

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On 18 July 2013, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter: ECtHR) in its Judgment in Maktouf and Damjanović vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina found a violation of Article 7 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter: ECHR). This Judgment, although referring only to the cases of Maktouf and Damjanović, has produced serious legal consequences for all the cases of genocide and war crimes adjudicated at the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: touf and Damjanović v. Bosnia and Herzegovina...