UN court-Serbia not responsible for Srebrenica

THE HAGUE, Feb 26 (Reuters) The highest UN court said today that although the massacre of Bosnian Muslim men in Srebrenica in 1995 constituted genocide, Serbia was not responsible for the mass killing.

''The court finds that the acts of genocide at Srebrenica cannot be attributed to the respondent's (Serbia) state organs,'' said International Court of Justice President Rosalyn Higgins.

She said it could also not be established that Serbia had been complicit in the genocide at Srebrenica by supplying aid to the Bosnian Serbs at a time when it knew those forces had the intent to commit genocide.

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