This program analyzes the issues pertaining to war crimes, such as what is a human right, what defines a war crime, the precedent set by the Nuremberg trials, how the commission of experts operates and its goals, detention camps during the Balkans wars, how forensic evidence is gathered, and the creation of the ICTY. Throughout the program, witnesses, survivors, and legal experts discuss these issues. The excavation of the Vukovar mass grave is given as an example of the way war crimes are investigated. Clinton's speech announcing the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord is shown at the end of the program.
The following individuals appear: Emsuda Mujagic, President of Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Dr. Faruk Konjhodzic, Chief Neurosurgeon at Sarajevo Hospital; an unidentified man; two unidentified women; an unidentified young boy; James O'Dea of Amnesty International USA; Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel; Tadeusz Mazowiecki, UN Special Rapporteur, Alessandra Morelli, UNHCR Field Officer; Zvonka Jakopovic, psychologist; two unidentified former prisoners held in a detention camp; Bernard Koucher, former French Minister of Health and Humanitarian Actions; two rape victims; Telfrod Taylor, Prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal; Morris B. Abram former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Geneva; Fritz Kalshoven, Commission of Experts Chairman; Dr. Shana Swiss, Physicians for Human Rights Women's Program Director; Dame Anne Warburton of the EC Delegation to Investigate Rape; Catherine Fischer, IRC Health Coordinator; a rape witness; Simon Veil French Minister of State for Health, Social and Urban Affairs; Cherif Bassiouni, Commission of Experts Rapporteur on the facts; Ron Redman, UNHCR Geneva Spokesman; Francoise Saulnier, Doctors Without Borders Legal Expert; Eric Stover, Physicians for Human Rights Executive Director; two mothers of the disappeared from the Vukovar hospital; Dr. Clyde Snow, Forensic Anthropologist; U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright; Alain Pellet, UN International Law Commission Rapporteur; Aryeh Neier, Human Rights Watch Executive Director; an unidentified woman; and President Clinton.