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United Nations court to hear genocide dispute between Croatia and Serbia
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/14/united-nations-court-to-hear-genocide-dispute-between-croatia-and-serbia/
United Nations court to hear genocide dispute between Croatia and Serbia
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, February 14, 2014 16:27 EST
The UN’s highest International Court of Justice is to hear arguments next month in a long-running genocide case that threatens to sour relations between Croatia and Serbia.
The Hague-based ICJ “will hold public hearings in the case concerning Croatia vs Serbia from Monday March 3 to Tuesday, April 1,” it said in a statement Friday.
Croatia in 1999 dragged Serbia to the ICJ on genocide charges relating to Zagreb’s 1991-95 war of independence following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia.
Croatia accused Serbia of “ethnic cleansing” which it said was “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.”