On 27 June 2005 , during the 109th Congress , the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution ( H. Res . 199 sponsored by Congressman Christopher Smith with 39 cosponsors ) commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide . The resolution , as amended , was passed with an overwhelming majority of 370 – YES votes , 1 – NO vote , and 62 – ABSENT . The resolution is a bipartisan measure commemorating 11 July 1995 – 2005 , the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre . The Senate version , S.Res .134 , was sponsored by Senator Gordon Smith with 8 cosponsors and was agreed to in the Senate on 22 June 2005 without amendment and with unanimous consent . The summaries of the resolutions are identical , with the exception of the name of the house passing the resolution , and the substitution of the word '' executed '' for '' murdered '' by the House in the first clause : A trial took place before the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) , following a 1993 suit by Bosnia and Herzegovina against Serbia and Montenegro alleging genocide . On 26 February 2007 , the ICJ , in the '' Bosnian Genocide Case '' concurred with the ICTY 's earlier finding that the Srebrenica massacre constituted genocide : ICJ President Rosalyn Higgins noted that there was a lot of evidence to prove that crimes against humanity and war crimes had been committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina such as widespread killings , the siege of towns , mass rapes , torture , deportation to camps and detention centres , but the ICJ did not have jurisdiction over them , because the case dealt " exclusively with genocide in a limited legal sense and not in the broader sense sometimes given to this term " . Moreover , the Court found " that Serbia has not committed genocide " nor " conspired to " or " incited the commission of genocide " . It did however , find that Serbia had failed " to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide in Srebrenica " and to comply fully with the ICTY by failing to transfer Ratko Mladić to the custody of the ICTY in the Hague and that Serbia must in future transfer to the Hague all ICTY-indicted individuals , who reside under Serbian jurisdiction
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
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