In 1992, the UN Security Council opened a dossier on breaches of humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions in the former Yugoslavia. Paragraph 5 of UNSC Resolution 771 called on all states or humanitarian organisations with knowledge of such violations to pass it on to the Security Council. These were the early days when Bosnia was high on Clinton's list of priorities (it remained a priority for many in his first Administration long after the President had lost interest), and the US made several submissions.

LRB 20 February 2003 | PDF Download