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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: UN to hear Croatia genocide claim against Serbia: AFP - Wednesday, November 19 THE HAGUE (AFP) - - The UN's highest court will hear a genocide claim lodged against Serbia by neighbouring Croatia for alleged ethnic cleansing committed during the Croatian war of the early 1990s, judges ruled on Tuesday. A panel of 17 judges dismissed a Serbian challenge to the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) competence to hear Croatia's complaint, a date for which will now be set and may take years to reach finality. "The court ... by ten votes to seven finds that ... the court has the jurisdiction to entertain the application by the Republic of Croatia," said presiding judge Rosalyn Higgins in The Hague. The ruling paves the way for only the second genocide case to be brought before the ICJ, Serbia also having been the subject of the previous claim filed by Bosnia. Croatia lodged a complaint against Serbia, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), with the ICJ in 1999, claiming "a form of genocide which resulted in large numbers of Croatian citizens being displaced, killed, tortured, or illegally detained as well as extensive property destruction". But Serbia argued before the court in May that it had no jurisdiction to hear the case over alleged crimes committed during the 1991-95 Croatian war that claimed some 20,000 lives. Serbia contended the FRY had not been a member of the UN nor a party to its convention on the prevention of genocide on the date Croatia's complaint was filed. And it said the majority of the crimes outlined in the complaint were committed before the current Serbian republic was formed. The judges found, however, that the FRY, Serbia in effect, had voluntarily assumed the rights and obligations of its pre-disintegration predecessor, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), including its accession to international treaties like the genocide convention. "The FRY would be bound by the obligations of a party in respect of all the multilateral conventions to which the SFRY had been a party at the time of its dissolution," the court said. Croatia's core complaint could not be heard before a decision had been made on Belgrade's objection to the court's jurisdiction. Last year, the ICJ cleared Belgrade of genocide in Bosnia during the break-up of the former Yugoslav federation. It judged the 1995 massacre of thousands of men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia to have been an act of genocide, without attributing direct responsibility to Serbia. In its application, Croatia claimed that Serbia continued to violate the genocide convention by "failing to punish those responsible, by not revealing information on missing persons, and by not returning cultural property taken from Croatia during its occupation." On top of punishment for those responsible, Croatia seeks reparations and an order for the recovery of cultural treasures it claims were pillaged during the war. The charges against Belgrade would have been strengthened in both cases by a judgment against former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, but he died in March 2006 shortly before the conclusion of his war crimes trial. Ivan Simonovic, the lead Croatian lawyer on the case, said he was "very satisfied" with the judgement, which he expected to add to pressure on Serbia to speed up its processes of bringing war criminals to book, finding missing persons, and returning cultural treasures. "We are not launching these proceedings to live in the past but to build healthy foundations for the sustainable future of the region," he said. A hearing of the case should also bring to light information lost with Milosevic's death, said Simonovic. He expected the case to be heard in about three years' time. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Enlarge Photo An elderly woman walks through the Croatian town of Vukovar which still bears the scars of the brutal siege by Serb forces in 1991. The UN's highest court will hear a genocide claim lodged against Serbia by neighboring Croatia for alleged ethnic cleansing committed during the Croatian war of the early 1990s. Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Citigroup to slash 50,000 jobs, expenses worldwide Exercise, sleep cuts cancer risk: study Obama and McCain pledge 'new era of reform' Acinetobacter is emerging hospital superbug: study Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2 emissions View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular

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