Ineffectiveness
Despite its peremptive wording Resolution 819 failed to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, when the United Nations Protection Force delivered the refugees from the fallen enclave into the hands of the forces of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, subsequently indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes including genocide.
In his chronology of events at Srebrenica, Under the UN Flag, the genocide survivor Hasan Nuhanović criticises members of the international community involved on the ground or indirectly influencing or capable of influencing events for specific failures to fulfil their responsibility to protect the Muslim population of the besieged "safe area" under Resolution 819.
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