A United Nations high court has decided that Serbia as a state bears no responsibility for the genocide which took place during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. This ruling is wrong. It also has implications for the guilt of Slobodan Milosevic, who was president of Serbia during the war. He died last year while on trial in The Hague for genocide. If the state which he controlled has been found innocent of responsibility for the genocide in Bosnia then that implies that Milosevic, who controlled that state, is also innocent. Slobodan Milosevic has effectively received a posthumous exoneration from the UN.
This whole trial is interesting though, in that it is the first time that a state, and not an individual, has been put on trial for genocide. How this was done is not clear, as the UN Genocide Convention clearly states that only individuals, and not states, can be charged with genocide.
In any event, the UN seems to have failed yet again to show lay blame where it belongs and bring justice to the world and its victimized peoples.
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