Abstract
On 18 April 2004, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) concluded that the crime of genocide had been committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. In 1999, Milosevic and four of his colleagues were indicted for crimes against humanity, but not genocide, with respect to the 'ethnic cleansing' of Kosovo. A more recent reflection of the Prosecutor's ambivalent attitude towards genocide charges was her agreement to withdraw such a charge against Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic in return for a guilty plea to crimes against humanity. 'Ethnic cleansing' has been part of the nomenclature of the Yugoslav wars since their beginning, and several commentators have been content to equate it with genocide. The Commission on Human Rights' Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions has said that 'ethnic cleansing' is no more than a euphemism for genocide. Keywords: 'Ethnic cleansing'; Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic; genocide; ICTY; Kosovo; Milosevic; Yugoslavia
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