A Dutch court has ruled that survivors of the 1995 Serb assault that killed 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica cannot sue the United Nations for failing to protect their families.
Relatives of victims and survivors of the massacre had been seeking compensation from the UN and the Dutch state.
But the judgment handed down by the district court in The Hague on Thursday said it had "no jurisdiction to hear the action against the UN".
"... the court concludes that in international law practice the absolute immunity of the UN is the norm and is respected."
Srebrenica was a Muslim enclave protected by Dutch UN peacekeepers.
On July 11, 1995, it was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces who loaded thousands of men and boys onto trucks, killing about 8,000 of them before throwing their bodies into mass graves.
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