Genocide

THE HAGUE - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague started on Thursday the second round of oral argument in a dispute between Serbia and Croatia where both parties are suing each other for commission of genocide during the 1991-95 war in Croatia.

Belgrade had a broad agenda aimed at expelling non-Serbs from Yugoslavia, Croatia argued at the genocide hearing before the UN court.

Ratko Mladic's defence says the former Bosnian Serb Army commander 'did not give any orders for any crimes' during the war in Bosnia.

Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who is on trial for genocide, was one of eight soldiers selected to join a firing squad and shoot Bosniaks from Srebrenica, said another fighter who participated in the killing.

Belgrade has not proved its wartime genocide claims in its case against Zagreb at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Croatia’s legal team insisted.

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The judges at the International Court of Justice arrive for the start of the Croatia-Serbia genocide trial on March 10th. [AFP]

Belgrade launched its genocide counter-suit against Zagreb at the International Court of Justice by claiming that Croatian forces tried to ‘ethnically cleanse’ areas where Serbs lived in 1995.

THE HAGUE - Serbia has filed enough evidence to prove that Operation Storm planned by the Croatian government bodies contains all elements of the criminal act of genocide and that Croatia violated its obligations according to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Serbia's agent to the court Sasa Obradovic stated before the International Court of Justice (I

THE HAGUE - Serbia's legal representative William Schabas has underscored in the continuation of the dispute between the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that Croatia did not present any evidence about the existence of a plan by the Serbian authorities to commit genocide against Croats during the war in 1991.

Belgrade told the International Court of Justice that it didn’t have effective control over the Yugoslav People’s Army and local Serb fighters accused of committing genocide in Croatia.