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| | ASIL Insight: Judgment in Kunarac, Kovac and Vokovic Case |
 | | In a landmark decision which develops international humanitarian law pertaining to sexual violence and enslavement, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court for Yugoslavia (ICTY) on February 22, 2001, sentenced three ethnic Serbs to prison for their abuse of women at a "rape camp" near Foca, a small Bosnian town southeast of Sarajevo. |
 | | The Tribunal defined enslavement broadly as “a crime against humanity in customary international law consist[ing] of the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person.” [Para. |
 | | 539] Factors to be taken into consideration in determining whether enslavement was committed included “control of someone’s movement, control of physical environment, psychological control, measures taken to prevent or deter escape, force, threat of force or coercion, duration, assertion of exclusivity, subjection to cruel treatment and abuse, control of sexuality and forced labour.” [Para. |
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