"The landmark judgment delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on genocide in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Serbia and Montenegro is an example of judiciousness not always proving to be good judgment. This was the first time that a UN member of state has been tried for genocide, and the ICJ has lost the only remaining for an authoritative legal ruling on the Bosnian genocide and Serbia?s role, since Slobodan Milosevic?s death deprived the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of the possibility of ruling on his responsibility. The court ruled that although what occurred in 1995 in Srebernica was indeed an act of genocide, the Serbian state was not directly complicit in it. It is a flawed verdict, with a little in it for all sides. This compromise in judgment has done little but stoke old fires in the ethnically volatile Balkans. The faith in ICJ is undermined..."