Genocide

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, a UN report said March 19.
      
ISIL "may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes -- namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide," the United Nations human rights office said in a statement.
      

"Genocide lawsuit" plans are "insult to victims"

BELGRADE -- Parliamentary Committee on Kosovo and Metohija chairman Milovan Drecun says Hashim Thaci's announcement of a "genocide lawsuit" was "an insult to the victims."

BELGRADE - The International Court of Justice's (ICJ) decision to dismiss Croatia's claim and Serbia's counter-claim of genocide put an end to a difficult chapter in relations between the two countries, Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Aleksandra Joksimovic noted.

BELGRADE - Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has said that the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the mutual genocide lawsuits filed by Croatia and Serbia is a good opportunity for overcoming the past and turning to a common European future.

"It is now up to Serbia and Croatia to prosecute crimes"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic has said that the ICJ judgment in the mutual lawsuits "put an end to the legal dispute between Serbia and Croatia."

BRUSSELS - Serbia and Croatia should accept the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) decision on their mutual genocide lawsuits and turn to building a lasting reconciliation, said Eduard Kukan, chairman of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Countries of South East Europe.

"Genocide bar raised very high" - outgoing Croat president

ZAGREB -- Ivo Josipovic says he is not satisfied with the judgment of the ICJ that dismissed Croatian and Serbian claim and counter-claim of genocide.

THE HAGUE - Head of the Serbian legal team Sasa Obradovic said on Tuesday the outcome of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) process regarding Croatia's charges of genocide against Serbia and Serbia's counterclaim had been expected, and that Operation Storm could no longer be referred to as a legal operation by the Croatian military.

BELGRADE - Expert on international dispute settlement and academician Tibor Varady qualified as logical and correct the Tuesday decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which decided to drop the Croatian genocide suit against Serbia and Serbia's genocide counter-suit against Croatia.

ZAGREB - Outgoing Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said he was not satisfied with the final judgment of The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) that dismissed claims of genocide by Croatia and Serbia against each other during the 1991/95 war on the territory of Croatia.