BOSNIA: NEW ROW OVER ICJ RULING
Last year's International Court of Justice ruling provokes
political disagreement in Bosnia.
By IWPR and RFE staff in Sarajevo and Belgrade
Bosnian victims of the 1990s Balkans wars welcomed last year's ICJ
ruling that Serbia was guilty of failing to punish the perpetrators of genocide. However,
12 months later, it seems that the verdict has only served to deepen political division in
the country. When the verdict of the world's highest court was announced, it was
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BOSNIAKS STILL SEEK SERBIA GENOCIDE CONVICTION
And a German court ruling in a genocide case might help them
achieve that.
By Edina Becirevic in Sarajevo (TU No 537, 8-Feb-08)
A year has passed since the International Court of Justice, ICJ,
decided Serbia was not guilty of genocide in Bosnia, and survivors angry about the ruling
have sought new ways of obtaining justice. The court ruled that Serbia bore no direct
responsibility for what happened in Bosnia in 1992-5, and decided that the
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A STATEMNT AR THE SEVNTH BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS
Sarajevo, July 2007
Florance Hartmann
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Genocide was defined as a crime of destroying or committing conspiracy to destroy a
national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Genocides or mass killings characterized by
their systematic and widespread nature emerge from a long process recognisable by its
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INTERNATIONAL COMPLICITY IN THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE
Sylvie Mutton
(A Statemnet at the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the International
Association of Genocide Scholars, Sarajevo, July 2007 )
Ladies and gentlemen,
Having very little time to speak, I will be direct; I'll just say clearly what I believe
about Western complicity with the genocide that occurred in Bosnia in the 1990s. But it is
disturbing for me to do so here, when among all the scholars here present there are
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