Bosnia verdict criticised

Published March 3, 2007

ISLAMABAD, March 2: Chairman of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights S. M. Zafar has termed the preliminary verdict of the International Court of Justice on genocide in Bosnia a great disappointment.

In a statement issued here on Friday, he said that the ICJ judges ignored the killing of over two hundred thousand mostly young Muslims, rape and gang-rape of thousands of women and the forced migration of population that the Serb government planned.That all this did not convince the judges “is a setback to any hope that genocide would ever be proved in future and future perpetrator and sadist will be deterred,” he said.—APP

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