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Court starts hearing Bosnia's genocide claim
Author: Ian Traynor, Belgrade
Uploaded: Tuesday, 28 February, 2006
Report on the opening of B-H's genocide case against Serbia before the ICJ, with additional details of daily transcript postings online at the Court's website
The World Court is today due to start hearing Bosnia's claim for billions of pounds in reparations from Serbia on the grounds that they was responsible for genocide against Bosnia in the 1992-95 war in former Yugoslavia.
Bosnia first lodged the claim in 1993. It has taken the panel of judges at the UN court, the International Court of Justice, 13 years to hear the case, a delay that has attracted criticism from human rights activists and international legal experts.
The Bosnian argument has to prove the war was an international conflict and not, as Serbia claims, a civil war within Bosnia.
This report appeared in The Guardian (London), 27 February 2006
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Unlike the trials at the ICTY, the oral pleadings in this case before
the International Court of Justice are not being broadcast. However,
verbatim transcripts of each day's public sitting are posted daily
on the Court's website:
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/ibhy/ibhy_pleadings/ibhy_cr_toc.htm
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