Annual War Crimes Staff Ride

The Department of Law recently completed its annual War Crimes Staff Ride, attended by Cadets Bradley, Chen, Orta and Briggs as well as LTC Gariepy. Highlights of the trip included a visit to the Srebrenica Memorial (the scene of one of the most notorious genocides in the 20th century where over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were massacred in 1995 when the city fell to attacking Serbian forces), a private meeting with representatives of the Mothers of Srebrenica (an association representing 6000 women who lost family members during the Srebrenica genocide), along with guided tours of the Nuremberg Courtroom, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia as well as the International Criminal Court. From the killings fields of Bosnia, to the halls of justice in the Hague, Department of Law Cadets were provided a unique insight into both the realities of war crimes in modern warfare re as well as ongoing international efforts to hold individuals accountable for these atrocities.