YIHR Demands Public Release of Facts Determined by the International Court of Justice
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After the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Serbia can not be held responsible for the genocide that took place in B&H, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights demands from state officials to present all the facts as determined by the judgment and to not bring into question the victims of genocide.
The lawsuit, filed by Bosnia and Herzegovina against former Yugoslavia in 1995, ended in a judgment that Serbia is responsible for inaction to prevent genocide and sanction the perpetrators. "The ruling of the Court clearly shows that Serbian leadership did nothing back then to prevent the genocide, in spite of their capacity to do so. The ruling obligates Serbia to extradite all genocide suspects to the ICTY in the Hague, including the war-time commander of Bosnian Serb’s military, Ratko Mladic”, said YIHR in a public statement. YIHR adds that the Court didn’t relieve Serbia from the obligation to present the whole truth, compensate, materially and legally, the victims of genocide and present guarantees that such horrible crimes will not happen again in the future. The Youth Initiative also believes that Serbian authorities can’t allow themselves to “feel glee over the ruling and have to do everything in their power to bring those responsible for genocide to the face of justice. "The satisfaction over the ruling and the repeated denial of crimes, evident in the statements of political figures, represents exactly the politics that have brought tragedy to hundreds of thousands of citizens of former Yugoslavia”, concludes the Initiative. |
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