Bosnian Serbs must pay €2m over massacre

BOSNIA’s top human rights court yesterday ordered Bosnian Serb authorities to pay more than 2 million in compensation over the Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

Bosnian Serbs must pay €2m over massacre

The panel of international and local judges also ordered them to provide information about the 1995 slaughter, where more than 7,000 Muslims were killed at the hands of Serb forces during the Bosnian war.

In its first such ruling, the court responded to a lawsuit by 49 families against Bosnian Serb authorities, charging their rights have been violated because they have not received information about their missing relatives. More than 1,700 such claims are still pending.

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