Saturday, March 11, 2006

And we punish an entire country for genocide HOW? Remember WWII, anyone?
World Court launches Bosnia genocide case
27/02/2006 19:30
By Emma Thomasson
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Bosnia accused Serbia and Montenegro of taking non-Serbs on a "path to hell" in the 1992-95 Bosnian war as the highest U.N. court launched its first hearings on Monday into state-sponsored genocide...
"The armed violence which hit our country like a man-made tsunami in 1992 ... destroyed the character of Bosnia and Herzegovina and certainly destroyed a substantial part of its non-Serb population," Bosnia lawyer Sakib Softic told the court.
"The Belgrade authorities have knowingly taken the non-Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina on a path to hell, a path littered with dead bodies, broken families, lost youths, lost future, destroyed places of cultural and religious worship."
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/02/27/world/worldcourtlaunchesbosniagenocidecase.html

Serbia-Montenegro uses “civil war” argument 16:36 March 10 Beta
THE HAGUE -- Friday – In the continuation of Serbia-Montenegro’s defence against charges of genocide filed by Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serbia-Montenegro legal team argued that the war in Bosnia was not a result of outside aggression, but rather, a civil war between three ethnic communities... Stojanovic said that the goal of the war on all sides was to take and control territory that each side thought had belonged to them. Muslims believed that they had the rights to all of Bosnia-Herzegovina while Serbs and Croats maintained that the regions in which they were the majority group, were rightfully theirs, Stojanovic said.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=34021&order=priority&style=headlines

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