ABSTRACT

According to the World Bank, about one-third of Bosnia's health facilities, half of its schools, and about two-thirds of its housing were destroyed in the course of the three-and-a-half years of open warfare in the republic. The "peace of Dayton" got off to a bad start when Bosnian Serb families streamed out of the Ilidza suburb of Sarajevo on the eve of its transfer to Bosnian government control. Under the Dayton Peace Accords, as already noted, no indicted war criminal was to be allowed to hold office in either sector of Bosnia-Herzegovina. For many, the fundamental test of the Dayton Peace Accords has lain in the ability of their would-be enforcers to bring indicted war criminals to justice. Yet it was precisely this aspect of the accords which seemed to get off to the slowest start. The territorial issues might have been expected to be the simplest, at least where the transfer of jurisdiction as such is concerned.