The UN Genocide Convention of 1948 criminalizes in 142 participating countries acts intended to “destroy in whole or in part members of a racial, national, religious or ethnic group.” As no prosecutions were launched for almost six decades, enforcement remains a major weakness. The International Court of Justice dealt another blow in 2007 by holding that the government of Serbia was not responsible for the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s.

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