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The Court finds that Serbia has violated its obligation under the Genocide Convention to prevent genocide in Srebrenica and that it has also violated its obligations under the Convention by having failed fully to co-operate with the International Criminal

Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

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[ 05 March 2007: Message edited by: Cueball ]

Here's that part from the link, (since you quoted a different, more confusing part):

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2) by thirteen votes to two,

Finds that Serbia has not committed genocide, through its organs or persons whose acts engage its responsibility under customary international law, in violation of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;

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[ 05 March 2007: Message edited by: BetterRed ]

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Slobodan Milosevic was posthumously exonerated on Monday when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Serbia was not responsible for the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica. The former president of Serbia had always argued that neither Yugoslavia nor Serbia had command of the Bosnian Serb army, a claim that has now been upheld by the ICJ.

The allegations against Milosevic over Bosnia and Croatia were cooked up in 2001, two years after an earlier indictment had been issued against him by the separate International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the height of Nato’s attack on Yugoslavia in 1999.

Notwithstanding the atrocities on all sides in Kosovo, Nato claims that Serbia was pursuing genocide turned out to be war propaganda, so the ICTY prosecutor decided to bolster a weak case by trying to “get” Milosevic for Bosnia as well. It took two years and 300 witnesses, but the prosecution never managed to produce conclusive evidence against its star defendant.

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Originally posted by BetterRed:
Yes, that ruling came out a couple of days ago.

Here's that part from the link, (since you quoted a different, more confusing part):

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Yes, I quoted the title, logically enough. Sometimes I find it is valuable let the nuance of an issue come out in the discussion. That is part of the value of the interactive chat board.

That said, I thought that the choice of thread title smacked of politicization, itself.

One usually picks the most important aspect of a topic as the lead in a press release, (the fact that Serbia, or its government at the time, was not specifically responsible for the Srebrenica killings seems sailent to me) but this title seemed tuned to downplaying that aspect in favour of one which paid homage to the "official" story.

But that is just a feeling.

Serbia had to be found guilty of something, even if it was simply that it was not vigilant enough. Well, we can all be accused of guilt in that capacity, to a certain extent, and such a charge is pretty intangible.

[ 06 March 2007: Message edited by: Cueball ]