NationStates Jolt Archive

I'm quite aware that this is a bit late, and in politics extremely late, but this is about the UN's highest court's dismissal of the Srebrenica Massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre). Over a decade ago, we witnessed a modern example of ethnic cleansing with a systematic "execution" of over 8,000 Bosniak males both young and old. I'm quite frankly somewhat angered over the UN's court decision to "ignore" the Bosnian suing towards the Serbian economy. Their only released decision for this was to "in the end make some sort of reconciliation" towards the entire Bosnian War. One of the original main principles of the UN was to uphold worldwide democracy and fight genocide. It happened, and it seemed as the UN has decided to forget it.

You're confusing the NSUN with the real world UN. Moved from UN forum to General.

I'm quite frankly somewhat angered over the UN's court decision to "ignore" the Bosnian suing towards the Serbian economy.

They did not ignore it. The suits were without merit as the court found that Serbia could not be held responsible for or complicit in the actions of Bosnian Serbs. That you disagree with the ruling in no way means that the court ignored anything, and in fact it did rule that the event was that of genocide, that Serbia failed to prevent it, and that it did not meet its international obligations in handing over those accused.

Also, the ICTY and ICJ rule without intervention by the UN in the proceedings, so to blame the UN for the court's rulings is as silly as blaming the Council of Europe for ECHR's rulings.

They need to dissolve NATO and take its forces.

They need to dissolve NATO and take its forces.the UN needs to dissolve NATO.. ??
and take its forces. ???

cannot be done and.. cannot be done.. for several practical and immovable-object reasons.

Was that a joke answer? :confused:

In any case, the Serbian government today can't even be held responsible for the actions of the preceding government (the Milosevich regime), much less the actions of civilian non-nationals, because they are not the same government. That is like having your wages garnished because the guy you replaced was fired for stealing office supplies.

I agree, though, that the UN is failing on the subject of genocide:
link (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/world/africa/13darfur.html?_r=1&ref=africa&oref=slogin)

Human rights advocates welcomed the unusually tough tone of the report and its recommendations, but they warned that steps were already under way to block its effect when the report comes up for adoption by the Human Rights Council on Friday in Geneva.

The rights council has been widely criticized for being no more effective than the discredited Human Rights Commission it replaced this year. Taking action on Darfur is seen by rights groups as a measure of whether the council can start to build credibility during its formal session, the fourth it has held, which began Monday.

“The council will probably throw this report into Lake Geneva.”