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  • August 2008

    • Karadzic Blasts 'Witch Hunt,' Says US Wants to Kill Him

      BBC  |  Aug 1, 08 12:50 PM CDT

      Karadzic Blasts 'Witch Hunt,' Says US Wants to Kill Him

      (Newser) - Radovan Karadzic says he can't possibly get a fair trial at the Hague because a “media witch hunt” has already proclaimed him a war criminal, the BBC reports. In a document submitted to the war crimes tribunal, Karadzic cited “drastic irregularities” in his arrest and accused the US of trying to "liquidate" him. More »

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      assassination  • Muslim  • Bosnia  • The Hague  • Radovan Karadzic  • international war crimes tribunal  • Richard Holbrooke

  • July 2008

    • My Meeting With the Monster of the Balkans

      Washington Post  |  Jul 23, 08 7:58 AM CDT

      My Meeting With the Monster of the Balkans

      (Newser) - When Richard Holbrooke led the process that resulted in the Dayton Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia, he knew that sending Radovan Karadzic to the Hague was necessary to bring peace to the Balkans. Now, after 12 "inexcusable" years on the run, he has been arrested, and the former ambassador writes in the Washington Post of his only meeting with Karadzic, "whose enthusiastic advocacy of ethnic cleansing merits a special place in history." More »

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      Serbia  • Bosnia  • Radovan Karadzic  • The Hague  • international war crimes tribunal  • Balkans War  • Richard Holbrooke  • Ratko Mladic

    • Serbia Collars Karadzic for War Crimes

      Associated Press  |  Jul 21, 08 5:40 PM CDT

      Serbia Collars Karadzic for War Crimes

      (Newser) - Serbian forces arrested Radovan Karadzic today after hunting the war crimes fugitive for 12 years, the AP reports. The former Bosnian Serb president, collared with other suspected war criminals, will likely be sent to the UN war crimes court in the Hague. The tribunal has indicted him twice, once for approving the murder of civilians in Sarajevo and later for organizing the genocide of 8,000 Muslim men in Bosnia. More »

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      United Nations  • Serbia  • war crimes  • Bosnia  • Radovan Karadzic  • international war crimes tribunal

  • April 2008

    • Former Kosovo Leader Acquitted of War Crimes

      New York Times  |  Apr 4, 08 4:30 AM CDT

      Former Kosovo Leader Acquitted of War Crimes

      (Newser) - The UN's tribunal in the Hague has acquitted a former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes. Ramush Haradinaj, who also briefly served as the breakaway province's prime minister, was cleared of murder, persecution, rape and torture of Kosovo Serb civilians. The verdict threatens to inflame anti-Kosovo sentiment in Serbia, writes the New York Times . More »

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      Serbia  • Kosovo  • war crimes  • The Hague  • international war crimes tribunal  • Ethnic Serbs

  • December 2007

    • Serb General Convicted of War Crimes

      AFP  |  Dec 12, 07 9:41 AM CST

      Serb General Convicted of War Crimes

      (Newser) - The United Nations tribunal at the Hague has convicted a Bosnian Serb general of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other charges, and sentenced him to 33 years in prison. Dragomir Milosevic commanded his troops to shell Sarajevo and fire at bystanders during the siege of the Bosnian capital, where 12,000 people died, reports AFP . More »

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      Serbia  • war crimes  • Bosnia  • international war crimes tribunal  • Slobodan Milosevic  • Sarajevo

  • September 2007

    • UN Convicts Serbian Officer of War Crimes

      Times (UK)  |  Sep 28, 07 1:20 PM CDT

      UN Convicts Serbian Officer of War Crimes

      (Newser) - A Serb officer was convicted yesterday of aiding and abetting murder and torture, and sentenced to 20 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, enraging Croatians, the Times of London reports. The case concerned the 1991 massacre at Vukovar, a Croatian town where hundreds of men were brutalized, shot, and buried in a mass grave. More »

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      Serbia  • war crimes  • The Hague  • Croatia  • international war crimes tribunal  • Vukovar

  • June 2007

    • Former Serb Leader Guilty of War Crimes

      BBC  |  Jun 12, 07 7:28 AM CDT

      Former Serb Leader Guilty of War Crimes

      (Newser) - Former Serb rebel leader Milan Martic has been convicted of murder and other atrocities in Croatia in the early 1990s and sentenced to 35 years in jail. The international war crimes tribunal in the Hague found Martic guilty of ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs when he was leader of the so-called Krajina Serb republic. More »

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      Serbia  • war crimes  • Bosnia  • The Hague  • Croatia  • international war crimes tribunal  • Slobodan Milosevic

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