U.S. International Law Professor Thomas Franck, one of the representatives of Bosnia at the hearing, said that the then Yugoslav federation of Serbia-Montenegro was accountable for denying an ethnic group the right to exist.
Traces of war crimes perpetrators, their arms and uniforms, commands and funds lead to Belgrade, Franck said, adding that crimes were systematically perpetrated as they were part of state policy.
Bosnia's representatives today presented evidence about Serb-run concentration camps, citing rulings of the UN war crimes tribunal which has already found guilty some Serb officers and politicians of war crimes against non-Serbs in Bosnia.
For instance, in 50 Bosnian municipalities there were over 500 Serb-held camps in which detainees, mainly Bosniaks and Croats, were held in inhumane conditions and tortured, sexually harassed and killed.
The legal representatives described the systematic destruction of the Bosniak and Croat cultural and religious heritage, saying that the so-called cultural cleansing was the final phase of genocide.
Almost all mosques and 75 percent of Catholic churches were destroyed in areas overran by Serbs, they said.
Bosnia's legal representatives also showed in the courtroom the 1994 footage of the current Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica touring the Serb military positions around the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo, and commending Serb soldiers saying that "this is how the borders and organisation of a future Serbia should look like from both sides of the Drina", alluding to the borders of a greater Serbia.