Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars is a document published in the Washington D.C. in 1914 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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The International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars consisted of university professors and other prominent individuals from France

France

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, Great Britain

Great Britain

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, USA, Germany

Germany

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, Austria

Austria

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 and Russia

Russia

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. Among the members of the Commission there were three Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 winners.

The Commission went to the Balkans

Balkans

The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

 at the beginning of August and remained until the end of September 1913. After returning to Paris

Paris

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 all the material was processed and released in the form of detailed report

Report

A report is a textual work made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form....

. The report speaks of the numerous violations of international conventions and war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars

Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

. The horrifying information collected were published by the Endowment in the early summer of 1914, but were soon overshadowed by the beginning of the First World War.

External links

Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars