After the ruling, the Serbian president, Boris Tadic, urged the Serbian Parliament to condemn the Srebrenica massacre, but that may be difficult to obtain because nationalist groups continue to deny it. He said it was “very important for S…

THE HAGUE, Feb. 26 -- The United Nations' highest court on Monday cleared Serbia of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's bloody 1992-95 war. But it said the country's former government should have stopped the July 1995 slaughter of more th…

The International Court of Justice in The Hague said the massacre of 8,000 men in Srebrenica was genocide, but Belgrade was not directly responsible.But it said Serbia broke international law by failing to stop the killings.Serbia's presid…

By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, February 7, 2007; A14 PARIS, Feb. 6 -- Representatives from 57 countries on Tuesday signed a long-negotiated treaty prohibiting governments from holding people in secret detention. …