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November 21st, 2013, 03:44 AM
The trial before the International Court of Justice in the Hague regarding Croatia’s charges and Serbia’s countercharges of genocide committed in Croatia is set to start on March 3, 2014, according to the daily newspaper Politika.
All the witnesses will take to the stand over the next month and the two sides will also present their closing arguments, the daily stated, quoting Serbia’s Foreign Ministry.
Peter Tomka of Slovakia will preside of the trial chamber. He has been the president of the court since February 2012.
Croatia filed its charges of genocide in 1999, and the International Court of Justice declared its jurisdiction over the issue in 2008.
Serbia filed its countersuit on January 4, 2009, accusing Croatia of genocide and ethnic cleansing of more than 400,000 Serbs from Croatia during the war in the 1990s.
The charges against Croatia also contain the war crimes against the Serbs committed by the Croatian fascists in the Independent State of Croatia during World War Two.
Source (http://www.serbia-times.com/serbia-and-croatia-before-court-of-justice-in-march-2014/)
All the witnesses will take to the stand over the next month and the two sides will also present their closing arguments, the daily stated, quoting Serbia’s Foreign Ministry.
Peter Tomka of Slovakia will preside of the trial chamber. He has been the president of the court since February 2012.
Croatia filed its charges of genocide in 1999, and the International Court of Justice declared its jurisdiction over the issue in 2008.
Serbia filed its countersuit on January 4, 2009, accusing Croatia of genocide and ethnic cleansing of more than 400,000 Serbs from Croatia during the war in the 1990s.
The charges against Croatia also contain the war crimes against the Serbs committed by the Croatian fascists in the Independent State of Croatia during World War Two.
Source (http://www.serbia-times.com/serbia-and-croatia-before-court-of-justice-in-march-2014/)