It promises to be a banner week, depending upon how this decision goes....

World Court to deliver genocide ruling
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer Sun Feb 25, 11:54 AM ET
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
Can a state commit genocide? Should an entire nation — not just its presidents, generals, and soldiers — be held responsible for humanity's worst crime?
In one of the most momentous cases in its 60 years, the U.N.'s highest court will deliver its judgment Monday on Bosnia's demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorizing, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.
If it rules for Bosnia, the International Court of Justice could open the way for compensation amounting to billions of dollars from Serbia, the successor state of Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, although specific claims would be addressed only later.
It also would be a permanent stain on Serbia in the eyes of history, regardless of any effort by Belgrade to distance itself from the brutality of those years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070225/ap_on_re_eu/world_court_genocide_ruling_1

So, what does this mean, exactly? The official stamp on a general POV that already pervades the media, politics and public opinion (in those places where anybody either knows or cares about Serbia)? What exactly will such a decision accomplish? There is no money for reparations, so it resembles, IMO, France's "war guilt" claim and reparations against Germany after WWI. And we all know how THAT turned out.....