Newsline - 30 March 2010: Families of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre are told they can't sue the UN for failing to act. Amnesty International criticises China for its death penalty record. Germany's Chancellor Merkel says Turkey still shouldn't be allowed to join the EU.

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Srebrenica survivors can't sue the UN
A court in the Hague has ruled the United Nations and the Dutch government can't be held responsible for the fall of the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica and the subsequent massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The case was brought by a group called the Mothers of Srebrenica, which says the UN and the Netherlands failed to protection civilians during the Bosnian war in the mid-1990s. Listen to an interview with Alex Hagedorn, the lawyer for the Mothers of Srebrenica.

Chinese executions under fire
China has come under fire for its use of the death penalty. Amnesty International says it thinks, 2,000 people were executed there last year alone amd has criticised Beijing for refusing to publish any figures on the subject, while claiming to have reduced the number of people put to death. Listen to an interview with Amnesty's deputy Middle East director Phillip Luther.
 

Turkey still not welcome in EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ended a two-day visit to Turkey today, after talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But any Turkish hopes this visit would create a breakthrough in the country's EU accession talks have now been dashed. Chancellor Merkel said that Germany - like France - remains opposed to Turkish EU membership in the near future. Our Turkey correspondent Dorian Jones reports.