BOSNIA CHARGES SERB GENOCIDE IN U.N. COURT

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 2, 1993                   TAG: 9304020034
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS                                LENGTH: Short
BOSNIA CHARGES SERB GENOCIDE IN U.N. COURT
Bosnia went before the International Court of Justice on Thursday, accusing Serbia of genocide against Bosnian Muslims and asking for emergency protection.
Bosnia's Muslim-led government wants court protection from ethnic Serb militiamen backed by Serbia. Bosnia also wants to pressure the United Nations to lift an arms embargo that prevents it, as a part of the former Yugoslavia, from receiving foreign military aid.
The hearing was the first time a country has gone before the court charging another with violating the 1948 Paris Genocide Convention. Although the court, a branch of the United Nations, has no enforcement powers, it can sway world opinion.
"Not since Adolf Hitler and the Nazis has Europe witnessed such barbaric outrages against another group of people because of their national and religious characteristics as such," Bosnia's chief counsel, Francis Boyle, told the panel. A ruling could come within days.
Serbia's presentation is today. Its chief counsel, Israeli international law expert Shabtai Rosenne, said presenting the atrocity charges in court "made an impression and we will have to deal with it."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB