Serbia cleared of genocide, failed to stop killing
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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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"It is clear that Milan Martic endorsed the goal of creating a unified Serb state"  The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs of murder, torture and persecution Tuesday and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of non-Serbs in Croatia.Judges said Milan Martic, 52, was responsible for hundreds of murders from 1991, when Serbs in the Krajina region of southern Croatia rebelled and set up a breakaway ministate until 1995, when Croatian forces recaptured the area.He also was convicted of ordering two days of indiscriminate cluster bomb shelling of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in May 1995 that killed at least seven civilians and injured more than 200. Read more
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The United Nations' highest court on Monday exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide or complicity in genocide in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war.
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The Bosnian Serb government issued an apology Wednesday for the 1995 massacre of 7,800 Muslim civilians in Srebrenica, saying it "shares the pain" of the victims' families.
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BELGRADE, Mar 7 (IPS) - "Regardless of the decision by the  International  Court of Justice (ICJ), I know what I will tell my  children about the  war," Bosnia-Herzegovina leader Zdravko  Komsic said after the ICJ cleared  Serbia of genocide in the  1992-95 war.
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Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj has ended a month-long hunger strike after winning back the right to defend himself before the UN tribunal in The Hague, the court said.
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Bosnian Serb authorities apologized for the first time to relatives of around 8,000 Muslims killed by Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.
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The highest U.N. court said on Monday the Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995 constituted genocide, before it delivered a ruling on whether Serbia committed genocide in the 1992-95 war.
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BELGRADE, Jul 25 (IPS) - Serbia has expressed particular satisfaction after  the United Nations failed to agree a new Security Council  resolution aimed at supervised independence for Kosovo.
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by legal affairs reporter Sebastiaan Gottlieb, 1 September 2004. Slobodan Milosevic wrapped up the opening of his defence statement against charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity before
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The killing of two conscripts has raised questions about the possible role of Serbia and Montenegro's military in protecting war crimes indictees.
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The United States is cutting aid to Serbia and Montenegro and may take further punitive measures if Belgrade persists in defying the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the U.S. ambassador to Serbia warned on ...
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Bosnia&#39;s war crimes court on Wednesday  acquitted Momcilo Mandic, the most senior ethnic Serb official  to have been indicted by Bosnian authorities, of all charges  related to crimes during the 1992-95 war.
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A U.N. tribunal Thursday convicted a Serb army officer of clearing the way for the torture and killing of nearly 200 Croats seized from a hospital in a 1991 massacre that set a tone of brutality as the Balkan wars were breaking out.
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The UN's top court says it will not hear claims of genocide made against eight Nato nations by Serbia and Montenegro.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The Bosnian Serb government issued an apology yesterday for the 1995 massacre of 7,800 Muslim civilians in Srebrenica, saying it ''shares the pain&quot; of the victims' families.
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The U.N. war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia accused the government of Serbia of blocking the handover of top fugitives and dismissed Belgrade's promise of cooperation saying she wants arrests not ...