TRIAL ON WAR

FEBRUARY 26 2007 12:49h

UN Court:Serbia Is Not Responsible For Srebrenica

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The highest U.N. court said Serbia was not responsible for the mass killing in Srebrenica, although it is constituted as genocide.

"The court finds that the acts of genocide at Srebrenica cannot be attributed to the respondent's (Serbia) state organs," said International Court of Justice President Rosalyn Higgins.

She said it could also not be established that Serbia had been complicit in the genocide at Srebrenica by supplying aid to the Bosnian Serbs at a time when it knew those forces had the intent to commit genocide.