[opiniojuris] Julian Ku: ICTY Sentences Serb Leader to 35 Years

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Posted by Julian Ku:
ICTY Sentences Serb Leader to 35 Years
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   The ICTY [1]sentenced Milan Martic, the former leader of a breakaway
   Serb enclave in Croatia, to 35 years in prison for his "ethnic
   cleansing" of non-Serbs as part of a broader plan to create a Greater
   Serbia. A summary of the judgment is [2]here. Interestingly, the bulk
   of Martic's convictions stem from a finding that he participated in
   former Serb President Milosevic's plan to create a greater Serb state
   by using violence to drive non-Serbs out. The Court doesn't call this
   plan "genocide" but it certainly was a joint criminal enterprise of
   some sort.
   Will any of this evidence affect Croatia's long moribund application
   to hold Serbia liable for "genocide" in the [3]International Court of
   Justice? Maybe. But similar evidence did not help Bosnia, so it seems
   unlikely.

References

   1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6743607.stm
   2. http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/2007/pr1162e-summary.htm
   3. http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=1&code=cry&case=118&k=73