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UN top court says Srebrenica massacre genocide

27 février 2007, 00:00

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The highest UN court said yesterday that the massacre of Bosnian Muslim men in Srebrenica in 1995 fulfilled the conditions required to constitute genocide.

Bosnia has asked the International Court of Justice to rule on whether Serbia committed genocide during the 1992-95 war. It is the first time a state has been tried for genocide, outlawed in a UN convention in 1948 after the Nazi Holocaust.

Reading from a lengthy judgment statement in advance of pronouncing the final ruling, ICJ President Judge Rosalyn Higgins said: ?The court concludes that the acts committed at Srebrenica fall in articles ... of the (genocide) convention.?

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