Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
(A guest essay by Jasmina Tešanović) Who was Dragan David Dabic? For me this incredible story is only beginning. Soon Radovan Karadzic will be safely in Hague behind bars, rambling his strident defense just like his predecessor Slobodan Milosevic. We here in downtown Belgrade are left with this mysterious ridiculous character, Dragan David Dabic, who will vanish like a soap opera hero. I am sincerely...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The lawyer who prosecuted former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said that Radovan Karadzic should be allowed to defend himself if he wishes.If Karadzic' decides to defend himself, that's a right he has according to the statute. The court will decide how to allow him to use that right, Geoffrey Nice told the BBC.Milosevic died in 2006 more than three years after his trial began.Olga Kavran, a...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
The trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for crimes against humanity could offer a major test for the international court, observers say.Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, the last big-name defendant at The Hague tribunal, seemed to be in control of his own trial at times, turning the affair into a free-wheeling political forum, The Washington Post said Thursday. Milosevic died...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Times asked Timothy William Waters, who helped prepare the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes in Kosovo, to comment on the significance of Radovan Karadzic’s arrest.
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Today's Washington Post features an article on how the upcoming trial of Radovan Karadzic presents an opportunity for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to improve its image following the somewhat tumultuous trial of Serb leader Slobodan...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for crimes against humanity could offer a major test for the international court,...
etlamatey (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Ted Galen Carpenter muses about the much abused-legacy of the Second World War in the American Conservative . ..for more than six decades, American officials and pundits have portrayed an array of tin-pot dictators as the reincarnation of Hitler: Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein. The notion that decrepit, third-rate powers such as North Vietnam, Serbia, Iraq, and Venezuela...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Nearly lost amid the fantastic PR (so far) and blind luck of Barack Obama’s Middle East tour – and the horror show that has been John McCain’s pathetic, flailing response to it – an astonishing story has developed in deepest Serbia this week. Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader who oversaw the rape of [...]
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Long-time fugitive from international justice and alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic was arrested by Serbian authorities yesterday. On the run since 1995 the 63-year-old Bosnian Serb leader was, like Slobodan Milosevic, a protege of Yugoslav communist politician and writer Dobrica Ćosić. The willingness of the crypto-communist regime in Belgrade to arrest Karadzic signals Serbia's intention to join...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Radovan Karadzic’s extradition to The Hague will reunite him with old comrades sharing the same prison - the same place where his one-time mentor, late ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, spent the last five years of his life….
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney caught the right spirit when she called for impeaching President George Bush.
Culture Parody Center (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Readers, I have to admit I was about to destroy all electronic equipment in my flat, just to avoid the mass hysteria in the Netherlands surrounding the arrest of Radovan Karadzic. The Dutch are especially disgusting on the issue because 1) they host the ICTY and that has to be cashed in on, so now [...]
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BIODUN IGINLA, BBC News, Minneapolis Mr Karadzic reinvented himself as a devotee of alternative medicine War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic plans to conduct his own defence in his trial at The Hague, his lawyer says. “Karadzic will have a legal team in Serbia that will help him with his defence but he will defend himself,” said [...]
David Pryce-Jones (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The arrest of Radovan Karadzic by the Serb authorities is something we can all applaud. He is undoubtedly a war criminal. As self-proclaimed President... . . .
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Belgrade - (Gotcha! Mess): A UN whore crimes posse has confirmed that evil Serbian war lord Radovan Karadic hid out in Sarajevo's General Colon Bowel Colonic Irrigation Clinic, escaping detection for 13 years via a cunning disguise imper...
