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02/27/2006:

"Court starts hearing Bosnia's genocide claim"

The World Court is today due to start hearing Bosnia's claim for billions of pounds in reparations from Serbia on the grounds that they was responsible for genocide against Bosnia in the 1992-95 war in former Yugoslavia.

Bosnia first lodged the claim in 1993. It has taken the panel of judges at the UN court, the International Court of Justice, 13 years to hear the case, a delay that has attracted criticism from human rights activists and international legal experts.

The Bosnian argument has to prove the war was an international conflict and not, as Serbia claims, a civil war within Bosnia.
guardian.co.uk