BlondeSense (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
It was 'Communism Lite' there. It was a traveling destination. The history was fascinating, and it was the gateway to the Balkans. Yeah, it was a powder keg for eons. Churchill was known to have muttered that there'd be 'some damned thing in the Balkans', and then we had WWI. (I tried to find that quote and it's context, and could not find it, btw. But there's a collection of his quotes and
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Belgrade - Most Serbs believe the war crimes tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia is biased against Serbs and fewer than half want Serbia to hand over suspects, a poll showed Friday. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, poised for extradition after his...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Radovan Karadzic's disguise was quite elaborate, but he didn't spent the past 13 years hiding from the Serbian authorities. They knew where he was all along. Only ten days after the government changed, the police plucked him off the 73 bus that he rode to work every day and started the process of extraditing him to The Hague to face the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The media circus over the capture of Radovan Karadzic has little to do with any notion of "justice" for his victims. Rather it is a continuation of the simplistic myth, peddled by Western leaders and the media through the Nineties, that the disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of ancient ethnic hatreds and that the Serbs were the chief aggressors in the break-up.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A Step at a Time accounts for an RFE/RL-interview with a Russian academic, commenting on the country's wish to close the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) after the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | yesterday
——————————————————————————————————- What place should the defence of human rights, law, and International Courts in enforcing them, be for the left? The capture of Radovan Karadžić long after his initial indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have brought some issues about this to out into the open. There are those who criticise ‘victor’s [...]
ABC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
For many in the former Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, not Karadzic, is the catch.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... justice for more than a decade. The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted Karadzic for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday convicted a Kosovar journalist on contempt of court charges and fined him 7,000 euros for revealing the identity of a witness in the war crimes trial of former Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Baton Haxhiu was indicted on the charges and pleaded not guilty in May. The judgment summary, read aloud...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... compatriots hijacked a US airliner to promote the independence for Croatia, then part of communist Yugoslavia. Busic and the crew had only fake explosives strapped to their bodies, but they left a bomb at New York's Grand Central train station. Busic surrendered to police in Paris after the plane landed, but the bomb in New York exploded while police were trying to disarm it. Yugoslavia...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague (ICTY) finally got another N1 prisoner: on a warrant from The ...
The Chief Brief (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in Srebrenica, I was happy to see this story . The lawyer for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic say he will conduct his own defense before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he faces charges of genocide and war crimes committed in Bosnia in the 1990s. Karadzic was arrested near Belgrade on...
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...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In 1990, after the Iron Curtain fell, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - a federation of six...
The Radical Moderate (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Radovan Karadzic has been captured and is supposed to be turned over to the Hague for war crimes. he's one of the Serbians accused of his sides' worst atrocities during the breakup of Yugoslavia. One news article mentioned that a number of Bosnians are saying it's not enough, and are continuing their suit against the UN and its Danish troops. They were the ones who allowed Karadzic and his troops...
