Students from L.A. visit BIRN Office in Sarajevo
20 January 2009 A group of law faculty students from Los Angeles visits Bosnia and Herzegovina and BIRN Office in Sarajevo.
Students attending the international humanitarian law program at the University of California (www.law.ucla.edu), accompanied by Professor Richard H. Steinberg, visited the BIRN Office in Sarajevo and spoke to BIRN Justice Report journalists Merima Husejnovic and Aida Alic.
In the course of their visit the students and their professor expressed interest in learning about war-crimes trials before local courts, facing the past and society's stand concerning the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, as well as its media profile in Bosnia.
In the period 2008-2009 the students are researching the work of the State Court in Bosnia and the ICTY intensively. During the course of their visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina they will make a documentary about these institutions and their importance for trying war crimes.
The students will address issues pertaining to the conflicts in the Balkans within the context of an International Law Clinics programme financed by a Bosnian woman, Sanela Diana Jenkins, who escaped to the UK in the course of the war and then moved to the USA, where she now lives.
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