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NEWS ABOUT: ethnic cleansing

ethnic cleansing stories: 7 news summaries

Karadzic to Appear at Genocide Trial, Seeks Delay

Prosecutor: Serb's only regret was that some survived Srebrenica

Nov 3, 09 4:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Radovan Karadzic will show his face at his war crimes trial for the first time since it began last week—but only to request more time to prepare his defense in the 1995 indictment, Reuters reports. A hearing today will address how to proceed if the former Bosnian Serb leader,... More »

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Bosnia • genocide • war crimes • The Hague • Srebrenica • Yugoslavia • ethnic cleansing • Radovan Karadzic • war crimes tribunal

Karadzic Caught Discussing Genocide on Wiretap

Prosecutors reveal tape as Bosnian leader's trial goes on without him

Oct 27, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Radovan Karadzic was caught on tape ordering the slaughter at Zepa and Srebenica, prosecutors revealed today at the war crimes trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader. “It will be a black cauldron,” Karadzic says on the tape, “where 300,000 Muslims will die.” But prosecutor... More »

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Bosnia • genocide • war crimes • The Hague • international war crimes tribunal • Srebrenica • ethnic cleansing • Radovan Karadzic • Ethnic Serbs • Srebrenica massacre • war crimes tribunal

 'Death-Squad' Serb 
 Was CIA Spook 

Agency submits classified document to international court in Stanisic's defense

Mar 1, 09 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A Serbian leader facing trial for organizing "ethic cleansing" death squads was a key CIA aide, reports the Los Angeles Times. Jovica Stanisic, head of intelligence for brutal Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, secretly fed information to CIA agents desperate for dirt on factions in the former Yugoslavia. While Stanisic... More »

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Serbia • CIA • war crimes • international war crimes tribunal • ethnic cleansing • Slobodan Medic • Jovica Stanisic • death squads

 Karadzic: Poet Turned Monster 

'Butcher of Bosnia' saw himself as an intellectual and guardian of his people

Jul 22, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Serbian strongman Radovan Karadzic viewed himself as a high-minded intellectual but his hardline nationalism drove him to become responsible for Europe's most bestial atrocities since the Nazis, writes the Times of London. The former Bosnian leader, now captured after 12 years on the run, was a poet and author and... More »

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Bosnia • Serbia • war crimes • ethnic cleansing • Radovan Karadzic • Sarajevo • Serbs

Brits Bust
Quiet Locksmith Suspected in
'91 War Crimes

Serb linked to brutal Balkan war massacres

Mar 26, 08 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A locksmith living quietly in northern England has been arrested for involvement in one of the most notorious massacres of the Balkan wars, reports the Times of London. Milorad Pejic, an ethnic Serb who now holds a British passport, faces trial for war crimes during the 87-day siege of Vukovar,... More »

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Serbia • war crimes • Croatia • ethnic cleansing • Vukovar • Balkans War • Milorad Pejic

Odinga Calls Off Rallies, Will Try Negotiating

Kikuyu tribe flees western Kenya as death toll tops 600

Jan 7, 08 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Kenyan opposition leader Rail Odinga called off his protest rallies today, trying to calm the nation as busloads of ethnic Kikuyu fled the western part of the country. So far at least 255,000 have been displaced, and 600 have been killed in ethnic-cleansing-style violence. Odinga today agreed to try... More »

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Kenya • ethnic cleansing • Kikuyu • Mwai Kibaki • Raila Odinga

Iraq Blasts Toll Rises to 500

Deadliest terror attack since fall of Hussein

Aug 16, 07 12:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The death toll from Tuesday's series of suicide truck bombings in northern Iraq may exceed 500, with scores more lying injured in hospitals, CNN reports. The attacks were reportedly launched by al-Qaeda against the Yazidi, a pre-Islamic sect, spotlighting the religious warfare that US troop surge sought to quell. More »

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Iraq • Islam • terrorism • sectarian violence • Sunni • insurgents • troop surge • Iraq death toll • Yazidi • ethnic cleansing • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

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