Serbia

Mixed Ruling on Genocide Still Puts Pressure on Serbia

March 6, 2007 By MARLISE SIMONS THE HAGUE, March 2 ― The recent ruling by the United Nations’ highest court that found fault with Serbia under the Genocide Convention complicates Serbia’s diplomatic rehabilitation, several legal experts sa…

Court Declares Bosnia Killings Were Genocide

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…

U.N. Court Clears Serbia of Genocide

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…

Genocide ruling frustrates Bosnia

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…

UN court to rule on Serbian role in genocide

In one of the most momentous cases in its 60 years, the UN's highest court will deliver judgment on Monday upon Bosnia's demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorising, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the earl…

Violent past plagues Pristina's ambition

The final round of negotiations over the possible independence of Serbia's breakwaway province, Kosovo, is supposed to take place next week in Vienna, based on the blueprint unveiled earlier this month by the UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari.But …