All those shocked by human cruelty should visit the Sarajevo Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992-1995, former president of the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague said Tuesday.

Theodor Meron is visiting Bosnia for the first time in his new capacity of the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. The institution is tasked with finishing the job of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which closed its doors last year.  

Jasmin Meskovic, the head of Bosnia’s Association of Concentration Camp Inmates, guided Meron through the museum, pointing at the gruesome crimes committed in Prijedor, Srebrenica and many of the other concentration camps in Bosnia. 

“The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide should be visited by anyone who is shocked by the cruelty of one human towards another,” Meron said. 

Meron is to meet with officials of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo’s mayor, Abdulah Skaka. He will also take part in a student conference on criminal proceedings in cases regarding genocide in Bosnia, organized by the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide and the Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves.