Internationally organized elections and communications: The reality for Bosnia's failed repatriation

The international community's effort in the former Yugoslavia to avoid justification of ethnic cleansing is focused mainly in its attempt to repatriate both refugees and displaced persons. This constitutes the direct' or indirect' goal of the majority of international organizations and NGOs working in the area.
It is one thing to define the legal status of repatriation," whether in the context of an international agreement to repatriate or as a human right under international instruments or customary law, and certainly another to give it substantive content. This article identifies some of the most basic material problems which have not been dealt with thus far, and which constitute serious impediments to the repatriation of, mainly, displaced persons, and proposes remedial solutions.