I think that this question isn’t for Quora, but for institutions who have jurisdiction over Kosovo at this moment or any other moment.If Kosovo entity decides to sue Serbia, Serbia will have the contrary lawsuit with full documentations of crimes committed on Serbs and other non-Albanians as it was the case with lawsuit and charges for genocide coming from Croatia.In 2015 The International Court of Justice rejected the lawsuit of Croatia and their controversy about Serbian genocide committed on Croatian territory from 1991 to 1995 because it wasn’t proven. One of decisions was that anything committed before 1992 was also out of charges because Croatia was the part of the same country and not internationally recognized as the independent country.Serbian government sued Croatia for ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Croatia during the operation Storm in 1995, as well as other crimes and charges were dropped, too. The explanation was that crimes against Serbian civilians happened, but according to the court “there weren't intentionally organised”. The truth is that NATO also bombed convey of civilians while they were leaving their homes and trying to make it to Serbia, so that might play the role, too. In all cases, including Kosovo and Metohija. So, those who grow high hopes, might end up disappointed because NATO bombed Serbia, including Kosovo and Metohija without the UN resolution anyway and Kosovo and Metohija is de jure Serbian territory.As many are familiar, there’s documentation collected about war crimes in the period between 1998–2000 and what happened in 2004 (2004 unrest in Kosovo) when Kosovo and Metohija wasn’t under Serbian jurisdiction and in the period before that, so I guess the decision of the International Court will be the same, knowing how Anglo-Saxonic law functions. If the previous decision is made in one case, the same decision will be applied in similar cases.It will be the waste of money and time for both sides.After all, since this question suggests that genocide happened, it will have to be proven in front of the court.Other than that, in order to file a lawsuit Kosovo has to be a member of the United Nations and that is not the case with this entity, so all the talk has political or controversial nature and not the legally grounded nature.
Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro.. rivalry?
I think you can freely reject most of the answers here. I can't believe how malicious and biased they are. The Balkans history is very complex having in mind that the great forces and small nations often competed between themselves for the territory. First, Albania is not that much against Serbia but it's very supportive towards Kosovo (runaway province of Serbia mostly populated by Albanians) which is a problem in relationship between nations. As for Croats, I don'd know what's their problem with Serbs. Always in history when they had chance they turned against Serbs. Serbia and Croatia were in the same country - Yugoslavia almost all 20th century, yet had conflicts several times. in the WW2 Croats turned to Hitler conducting his politics of concentration camps for Serbs and Jews. Than, Serbia allegedly attacked Croatia in the 90's war - Yea, wright. Like Croatia didn't first declare Serbs as 2nd class citizens - again! a minority instead of constitutional nation (Serbs have always lived in Croatia) and in the end banished them from their homes where they lived for centuries. Today Serbia is full of Croatian products, they bought many of our successful factories. On the other hand, you can hardly find any Serbian product in Croatia and they don't allow Serbian investments. Many Serbs still didn't return to their homes and Croats celebrate the day when they commit ethnic cleansing. Montenegrins have a complex of small nation. So, they made up a Montenegrin language and church. They are conducting a tremendous pressure on everything that is Serbian in Montenegro to become Montenegrin. We are basically the same nation. It's always Serbian nationalism to blame. Like others weren't nationalists and even aggressive. You study it yourself, type in Yugoslavia in Wikipedia, research a little.. though many information are unfortunately biased and non-true.
Genocide in Rwanda (1994), Bosnia (1995), and Kosovo (1999)?
Check out a book called A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide /by Samantha Power, It was published in 2002 and your library should have it if your library is worth a ****. It's about several crimes against humanity but there is a big section on Rwanda in it and a Bibliography in the back that will direct you to further reading. Don't be scared. It's a big book but she is a good writer and it's easy to read. The sad part is their really is no real difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi. Just two different kinds of ethnic groups like French people and Italians. It would be like if Cubs fans and Cardinal fans stared shooting each other with automatic weapons just based on the color of their baseball caps.
Personally, I am not going to get angry. I was born in Yugoslavia. Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Albanians … started the wars, not Yugoslavs. If we had that Yugoslavs in mind we possibly would not go through all horror of the wars.Other than that, there are still people who feel Yugoslavs. Here is the recent conversation between my two cousins who lived some part of their adulthood in Yugoslavia:One of them: What is the name of our famous skier?I asked: Does “our” mean Yugoslav? Serbia does not have famous skiers.They looked at me like I asked a totally excessive question and another of them answered: Mateja Svet. (BTW. She is Slovenian.)I believe that even people in Serbia who were not born during Yugoslavia would not feel angry or offended if you call them Yugoslavs.Serbia and Croatia are not the world powers and it is not that everybody heard about us. Anyway, there are lots of people who know for Yugoslavia for lots of different reasons. It happened that when I told I was coming from Serbia, people tried to figure out where was Serbia and reacted - Oo, Tito, Yugoslavia.
I am going to speak for myself.I feel terrible when I think that happened. I feel guilty even if I have never been in Srebrenica. I struggle to overcome the whole war, hate and killing in all Ex-Yugoslav Republics. It does not make me feel better because those Serbs who killed are war criminals (I question their sense of belonging, but they are still Serbs) and those people in Srebrenica are dead because of greed and power overtaking in the country where I was born. From time to time I catch myself in the state of self-defense, but deep-down I feel extremely bad.I have a client who is a social entrepreneur from the US and who is helping, among other, Yazidi victims, refugees from Syria including victims from Bosnia. It makes me feel a little better. I am doing something for all of them.Serbian government gave money to Srebrenica (maybe the payment is still in the process). If it is going to help citizens of Srebrenica in any way and if it means to them, I am good with that. I would give them a double budget.But I am not good with the fact that I live in the world where human life has a price and market value. Nobody can pay me 10 years of my life in the wars and 10 in the hell after the wars. Without arguing whose fault was the whole situation and who was involved, Serbian government cannot compensate human lives for money. Nobody can!