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BS: Serbia innocent !!!

27 Feb 07 - 08:12 AM (#1980688)
Subject: BS: Serbia innocent !!!
From: GUEST,weasel

Yeah, right.


27 Feb 07 - 08:19 AM (#1980692)
Subject: RE: BS: Serbia innocent !!!
From: Wolfgang

Possible background for that exclamation

Wolfgang


27 Feb 07 - 01:59 PM (#1980992)
Subject: RE: BS: Serbia innocent !!!
From: McGrath of Harlow

As one of the lawyers in the case points out "Genocide is not the only atrocity." The Srebenica massacre, carried out by Bosnioan Serbs, has been judged to have amounted to an act of genocide, and the Serbian government has been founding guilty of aiding and abetting this.

Not exactly "innocent".


27 Feb 07 - 05:33 PM (#1981186)
Subject: RE: BS: Serbia innocent !!!
From: Bill D

Many Serbs were far from innocent and I 'suspect' that many others would not have been too upset if the 'almost genocide' had worked to their advantage.

Still...maybe this decision will help everyone to move on.


27 Feb 07 - 05:35 PM (#1981191)
Subject: RE: BS: Serbia innocent !!!
From: Uncle_DaveO

The ruling was actually more like the verdict under Scottish law, "Not Proven", rather than "not guilty".

And in any case, "not guilty" in law is not the same as "innocent", which is a moral, rather than a legal term.

In any case, I wouldn't use the word "innocent" here.

Dave Oesterreich