The Hague appeal court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that the UN cannot be prosecuted by relatives of Muslim men killed in the 1995 massacre of Srebrenica.

The court said the UN’s immunity from prosecution is enshrined in its founding conventions and that legal protection is an essential part of peacekeeping operations.
Lawyers for the women, known as the mothers of Srebrenica, have vowed to take the case to the high court and European court if necessary.
Massacre
Some 8,000 men and boys were murdered by Serb forces in the Muslim enclave, which was under protection of Dutch UN troops. The massacre was the biggest mass killing in Europe since World War II.
Lawyers for the women told news agency AP the ruling undermines their fundamental human rights of access to ‘effective legal remedies’.
‘How long can the UN retain its credibility, striving to protect human rights but at the same time disregarding them itself?’ the lawyers said.