U.N. says immune from legal action over Srebrenica | International | Reuters

U.N. says immune from legal action over Srebrenica | International | Reuters: "UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has received documents in a suit families of a 1995 massacre in Bosnia want to bring against it over its failure to prevent the bloodshed, but is immune from legal action, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.

The world body has drawn lessons from the Srebrenica massacre, in which Bosnian Serb forces killed at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys that Dutch U.N. peacekeeping troops had been charged with protecting, said spokeswoman Marie Okabe.

Relatives of the victims sued the Dutch state and the United Nations in the Netherlands on Monday. Lawyers said the Dutch had refused crucial air support to their troops defending the town, and the U.N. had not tried to make them provide it.

Survivors of the massacre during Bosnia's 1992-95 war were 'absolutely right' to demand justice for what has been called Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, Okabe said." Read complete post here.