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Originally posted by WillowIX:
I wholeheartedly agree with Spelca! The civilians, or majority, are suffering for what the minority did, nothing usual about that. But IIRC Serbia received money to rebuild. Didn't they? Figures anyone? If they didn't get enough to rebuild their country they certainly could ask for more, not suing the first NATO country they can find...
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It's not about the money - it's about justice.
It's about recognition that a crime (allegedly) took place.
The amount of money that the plaintiffs could possibly win under German formula based compensation will be nominal - not worth the effort if pecuniary gain was the point of the action.
And if they win their case and move on with a successful action against the US via the ICJ - no-one would be foolish enough to think that the US would actually pay out damages. Even if the ICJ awarded a nominal $1 in compensation, US politicians would rather sell their own homes than reach into their pockets to pay it.
Zoran Milenkovic doesn't want cash to replace her daughter - she wants someone in gaol for 'murdering' her daughter. Would we have accepted $200 million from Milosovic in exchange for granting him immunity from prosecution?
In Srebrenica 7,000 civilians were murdered by Serb forces - it was a war crime. The architect of that massacre was immediately indited. But what about the Dutch Nato Commander (Karreman) who not only turfed out muslims from the Nato enclave into the hands of the Serb forces, but actually ordered his men to disarm them and help put them onto the death buses - did he go to trial?
No, he was promoted and sent to Washington as a military liason officer.
We haven't exactly been equal-handed in our dispensation of justice.
And *that* is where it's at - and that is the motive behind this action.