Genocide

ICJ to rule on Croatian and Serbian genocide laswuits

BELGRADE -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will today rule on genocide lawssuits filed by Croatia and Serbia for the crimes committed in Croatia in 1991-1995.

The Netherlands-based International Court of Justice was expected to deliver its long-awaited verdict in the mutual genocide lawsuits of Serbia and Croatia on Tuesday.

THE HAGUE/BELGRADE- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will issue its ruling on genocide suits filed by Croatia and Serbia for the crimes committed during the war in Croatia in the period 1991-1995.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that it was impossible to predict the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case of Serbian and Croatian mutual genocide accusations, but expressed the belief that the court would prove that it indeed was a "court of justice."

Serbia "expects ICJ to truly be court of justice"

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic says it is "impossible to predict the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Serbian and Croatian mutual genocide lawsuits.

But the Serbian foreign minister said he believed that the court would prove it was it indeed "a court of justice."

THE HAGUE - The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) pronounced final verdicts in the case of Popovic and others against five high officials of former army of Bosniak Serbs for crimes committed in Srebrenica and Zepa in July 1995.

Years ago, Turkish politician Do?u Perinçek gave a number of conferences in Switzerland on the topic: ?Genocide in an imperialist lie.?

As a result, a Lausanne Police Court tried and found him guilty of racial discrimination on March 9, 2007, sentencing him to 120 days in prison before converting his prison term to a fine and postponing it.

Expert expects both genocide suits to be rejected

NOVI SAD -- Both Croatian lawsuit and Serbian counter-lawsuit for genocide before the International Court of Justice will be discarded, Tibor Varadi believes.

THE HAGUE - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will deliver its judgment in the case brought by Croatia against Serbia concerning application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the ICJ released on Thursday.

Serbia "expect Croatia's lawsuit to be rejected"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's legal team expects that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will reject Croatia's genocide lawsuit against Serbia.