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NEWS & LETTERS, April - May 2007Our Life and Times by Kevin A. Barry and Mitch WeerthRuling on BosniaIn March, the International Court of Justice, which the U.S. has refused to join, ruled against a Bosnian lawsuit claiming that Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia was guilty of genocide during the Bosnian war. The Court did find that genocide took place against Bosnia, however, something that the French public opinion, let alone that in pro-Serbia Russia or Greece, has up to now refused to recognize. But the Court found for genocide in only one instance, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim boys and men. The rest of the 200,000 killed and the many more "ethnically cleansed," they concluded were not genocide. Moreover, since there was supposedly no direct proof that the Milosevic regime had actually ordered Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic to carry out the Srebrenica massacre, the Serbian state was therefore "not guilty" of genocide. The Court acknowledged with unintended irony that Milosevic had not done "enough" to prevent the genocide at Srebrenica. Up to now, Serbia has been under serious consideration for European Union membership. In fact, this genocidal state is at the same rung on the ladder to membership as democratic predominantly Muslim Turkey. This has been the case despite Serbia’s proven sheltering of war criminals. For example, a Serbian court revealed late last year that Mladic, under indictment by the international Hague Tribunal, had lived for three years in Belgrade under military protection at a sumptuous high-rise apartment on 118 Yuri Gagarin Street. He moved out only in January 2006! |
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