The ICJ is not looking into WW2 events, the charges have been defined to the 91 war in Croatia. If serbia wants to sue them for ww2, then, serbia will have to take that case separately to another court but when you do this, you understand that Germany was giving the orders in Croatia. If you win, then all the victims' surviving descendants of Samjiste concentration camp near belgrade, and all victims of cetnik slaughter, and all victims of partisan slaughter and all victims of Milan Nedic's govt,even though directed from germany, will have to answer to those voices from the graves and if they win, then, the Albanians will bring on the MOTHER OF ALL GENOCIDE LAWSUITS against serbia for all the criminal murders and ethnic cleansing your people commited against ours from the moment your Russian/Ukraine ancestors stepped on our homeland to milosevic's form of genocide by ethnically cleansing 1.5 million Albanians from their homes in Kosova and burning their citizenship papers and birth certificates just before they crossed the border into macedonia or montenegro or Albania.
BTw, this is Stepic's threat against the serbs if they move with charges against Croatia for the Op. Storm, to recover stolen land from Krajshnik and his thugs in Knin.
Croatian leader warns Serbia over war crimes accusations Wed Nov 19, 2:04 pm
… ZAGREB (AFP) – Croatian President Stipe Mesic warned Serbia on Wednesday it would be making a mistake if it filed a complaint against his country for alleged ethnic cleansing during the 1991-1995 war.
"It is a mistake," Mesic told national television, referring to an announcement made Tuesday by Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic.
Belgrade's move was a response to a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's highest court, that it would hear a Croatian genocide claim against Serbia.
Around 280,000 ethnic Serbs fled Croatia during and after its 1991-1995 war, according to the United Nations. So far some 130,000 of them have returned.
According to the UN war crimes tribunal, about 350 mainly old or ill people -- unable to flee towards Bosnia and Serbia -- were killed by Croat forces during the operation.
The Serbs took flight after Croatia launched a military operation to retake key territory held by rebel Serbs. The operation dubbed "Storm" practically ended the war that claimed some 20,000 lives.
"Storm... was a legitimate action by the Croatian army and police since all proposals towards (rebel Serbs) to solve the repossession of the Croatian territory through negotiations were not successful," Mesic said.
"Many ethnic Serbs left together with the rebels or Yugoslav army," he said, stressing that all those responsible for war crimes should be brought to justice.
"Croatia is doing that... and has also delivered all suspects sought by The Hague tribunal," he said referring to the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) based in the Netherlands.
The return of ethnic Serbs and ability to deal with war crimes committed by its own nationals are conditions Zagreb has to meet as part of its bid to join the European Union by 2011.
Croatia's proclamation of independence from the former Yugoslav sparked the war with rebel Serbs who opposed the move.
Militarily and politically backed by Belgrade, the rebels occupied one-third of Croatia's territory, expelling all non-Serbs.
Croatia lodged a complaint against Serbia, then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), with the ICJ in 1999,
claiming "a form of genocide which resulted in large numbers of Croatian citizens being displaced, killed, tortured, or illegally detained."
Zagreb said Wednesday it would press on with its ICJ case despite the legal backlash by Serbia, which says its charges will even include crimes by Croatia's World War II pro-Nazi regime.
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