Not America, Yugoslavia
Calling England (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
David Campbell Bannerman MEP (Dep.Leader, UKIP) speaks at the European Parliament on 21st October and raises the issue of EU embassies (European External Action Service, EEAS):
Yugoslavia
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Arguing Over Policy
Diplomatic Blogoir (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the eve of an important visit from said HQ. It was loosely based on my own experience in post-Tito Yugoslavia in 1984. I as a youthful and truculent Political Officer thought that the Embassy in Belgrade needed to convey to London serious concern about the risk of decay and perhaps even dangerous collapse in the country. The Embassy top brass disagreed - Yugoslavia would (they were...
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Van még petárda - Still have crackers
shadowbat (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... such noise as this were the reports about the siege of Sarayevo and other fights in the former Yugoslavia. For years long. Before that there where not many fireworks around apart from the ones shown on tv and some at national holidays so i (we) were not used to it; by the end of the decade we too had shows in our small town but at those one could see the smoke and the men handling the stuff...
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About removing the Cross
Diary of a mediterranean psysailor (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... Kugler In 1960 Cardinal Konig of Vienna awoke from a coma after a serious car accident in former Yugoslavia; he looked at the wall of the hospital room and saw a picture of Tito. For the young archbishop this experience was the beginning of an internal process that led him to a special solidarity with the Christians in communist countries. For us the picture of this situation can help clear...
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Kenyans Side With Israel on United Nations General Assembly Vote
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Richard Goldstone, a former war crimes prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, led an investigation of alleged war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the 2008/9 Gaza War. He produced a 574-page report which was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council, which referred it to the General Assembly. On Tuesday night, on the eve of the debate of the report...
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Two Languages Divided...
Grey Noughts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
First conundrum: a form asks for "country of birth". Let me see, what is it they really want to know? When I was born, long 42 years ago , I was born in the city of Belgrade , Socialist Republic of Serbia , then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . Therefore, I was born in Yugoslavia , haven't I? Much more often than not, this is what I put in forms that express...
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Should Amnesty International Be Inviting Noam Chomsky to Speak?
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Not if you care about what went on in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990's. Journalist Ed Vulliamy has a powerful open letter addressed to Amnesty UK regarding the outrage he feels concerning the invitation extended to Chomsky to address...
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Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... for taking leadership in previous investigations of war crimes in Rwanda, Darfur, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. Since this report documented apparent war crimes by a key U.S. ally, however, Congress has taken the unprecedented action of passing a resolution condemning it. Perhaps most ominously, the resolution also endorses Israel’s right to attack Syria and Iran on the grounds...
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Tribunal judges order counsel to represent Karadzic
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
AMSTERDAM – Yugoslavia tribunal judges yesterday ordered legal counsel for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and adjourned his trial until March 2010 to give the new defence lawyers time to prepare.
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Karadzic had boycotted trial, demanded 10 months delay
Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Karadzic counsel appointed, trial to resume in 2010 Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:36pm EST * Karadzic denied 11 war crimes charges from Bosnian war (Adds Karadzic legal adviser, detail) By Reed Stevenson AMSTERDAM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Yugoslavia tribunal...
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Karadzic counsel appointed, trial resumes March
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal judges ordered the appointment of legal counsel for Radovan Karadzic Thursday because the former Bosnian Serb leader had refused to attend his trial since it started last week.
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UN court imposes lawyer on Karadzic
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A UN court imposed Thursday a lawyer on Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and postponed to March 1 the genocide trial he has boycotted since it started last week. "The trial chamber hereby determines that the overall interests of justice are best met by the appointment of counsel," said a written decision by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
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Karadzic counsel appointed, trial resumes March 2010
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal judges ordered the appointment of legal counsel for Radovan Karadzic Thursday because the former Bosnian Serb leader had refused to attend his trial since it started last week.
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ICTY to appoint counsel for Karadzic
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Thursday that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed counsel to represent him in the event that he does not appear in court. The ICTY announced the decision in response to Karadzic's boycott of war crimes proceedings against him. Karadzic was boycotting the proceedings based on his...
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War crimes tribunal appoints attorney for Karadzic - Summary
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Hague - The war crimes tribunal in The Hague said Thursday it has appointed an attorney for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, and adjourned the trial until March 1. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said it ...