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Rights Court
Refuses Yugo Complaint
.c The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European
Court of Human Rights on Wednesday refused to accept a complaint against
NATO nations brought by a group of Yugoslavs whose relatives were killed
in the 1999 allied bombing of Serbian television.
Judges at the
court in Strasbourg, France, unanimously declared the case inadmissible
because the action occurred in Yugoslavia and outside its jurisdiction.
Yugoslavia is not part of the 43-member Council of Europe.
The
complaint was brought by six Yugoslavs. Five of them had family members
who were among 16 people killed when NATO planes bombed television
headquarters in Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict. The sixth complainant
was himself injured in the attack.
In a statement the court said
Yugoslavia ``clearly did not fall within this legal space.''
The
decision also said the European Convention on Human Rights ``was not
designed to be applied throughout the world, even in respect of the
conduct of contracting states.''
NATO planes bombed the
headquarters of Radio-Television Serbia early on April 23, 1999, one month
into NATO's 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia. The alliance said the
TV station became a target by broadcasting propaganda for the regime of
then-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
AP-NY-12-19-01
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