February 27, 2007
On February 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague cleared Serbia of genocide charges in connection with Belgrade’s support to the Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The ICJ confirmed, however, an earlier ruling by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), also in The Hague, that events […]
February 26, 2007
In a landmark ruling announced on February 26, the International Court of Justice in The Hague found that Serbia neither committed nor conspired to commit genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, international media reported. “The court finds that the acts of genocide at Srebrenica cannot be attributed to the respondent’s state organs,” the court’s president, Rosalyn Higgins, said […]
February 2, 2007
The small patch of land known to Serbs as Kosovo i Metohija and to Albanians as Kosova has provided the backdrop for a clash of core principles of international relations ever since Nato chased out Serbian security forces in 1999 and turned the territory into a United Nations protectorate. After almost eight years of post-conflict […]