Court to decide if Serbia is responsible for genocide

The UN’s highest court will deliver its judgment on Monday on Bosnia’s demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorising, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.

If it rules for Bosnia, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, could open the way for compensation amounting to billions of euros from Serbia, the successor state of Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia, although specific claims would be addressed only later.

It also would be a permanent stain on Serbia in the eyes of history, regardless of any effort by Belgrade to distance itself from the brutality of those years.