U.N. Court to Rule on Serbia Genocide
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The United Nations' highest court is ruling Monday whether Serbia is guilty of genocide for the killing, torture, rape and expulsion of Bosnian Muslims  -  the first time an entire nation is being held to judicial account for the ultimate crime
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The International Court of Justice on Monday has said in a landmark ruling that the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica was genocide, confirming an earlier ruling by the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 18 -- The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Saturday threatening possible sanctions against Sudan and establishing a U.N. commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, and to determine whether Sudanese authorities and militias are responsible for committing genocide there.
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On issues such as the juvenile death penalty, the court considers whether it should weigh international opinion.
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The court's verdict had long been awaited Bosnian Muslim leaders have voiced disappointment after the top UN court cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide during the Bosnian war.Comment
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Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, international law experts and human rights activists gathered in Belgrade on Friday to review Serbia's shortcomings in dealing with war crimes committed during ...
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BERLIN -- The United Nations' highest court ruled yesterday that Serbia failed to prevent the massacre of Muslims during the Bosnian war but was not directly responsible for the atrocities, ending a landmark case in which an entire nation was tried for committing genocide.
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The UN-backed tribunal trying masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide will decide whether to prosecute members of a then rebel group which is currently the country's ruling party.
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Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, international law experts and human rights activists gathered in Belgrade on Friday to review Serbia's shortcomings in dealing with war crimes committed during the 1990s Balkan conflicts.
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In a challenge to Syria, the U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to set up a court to prosecute the murder two years ago of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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The Hague tribunal is set to rule on three former Yugoslav Army officers accused of massacring  civilians in Croatia.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday that a new Bosnian Serb report on the 1995 massacre against Bosnian Muslims in the city of Srebrenica should lead to action against the perpetrators.
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The UN court ruling on the genocide lawsuit by Bosnia against Serbia on Monday brought due reactions from Bosniaks in Bosnia and Serbs in the Republic of Srpska and Serbia, with the former disappointed and the ...Comment
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The highest U.N. court cleared the Serbian state on Monday of direct responsibility for genocide in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war, but said it had violated its responsibility to prevent genocide.
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The United Nations war crimes tribunal transferred on Monday a Bosnian Serb ex-army captain accused of genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre for trial in Bosnia, the state war crimes court said.
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THE HAGUE : The International Court of Justice, the UN's highest legal body, dismissed cases filed by Serbia and Montenegro accusing NATO members of genocide during the alliance's 1999 air raids during the ...
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Families of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia will sue the Dutch state and the United Nations, which they blame in part for allowing the killings to happen, lawyers said on Friday.