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 announ...
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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 only...
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A STATEMENT AT THE
SEVENTH 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
pattern of purposeful
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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...
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