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** Resolution 47 / 121: condemned ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian Serbs as genocide, ( fourteen year later the International Court of Justice ruled in the Bosnian Genocide Case of 2007, that ethnic cleansing was not enough in itself to be genocide, but that there must also be intent to kill a substantial part of the targeted group by the perpetrators ).
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