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Region: SerbiaDen Haag, 02/08 Radovan Karadzic finally made shock statement at the court. He is known as the man who take responsible in genociding thousands of moslem people in Serbs arround 1990's. He said that something was wrong due to his retention. he said that arround 1995, one of US negotiator, Richard Holbrooke made a deal with him. He will be set free from being trial as long as he retreat from public and politic ... more
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Serbia: Pressure Needed to Secure Mladic Arrest
Region: Serbia
Belgrade sources promise swift action to capture Bosnian Serb wartime commander, but analysts say pressure must be kept up to ensure elusive general is brought to justice. By Simon Jennings in The Hague and Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade Belgrade insists this week’s arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic will shortly be followed by that of his military commander, Ratko Mladic, but observers warn ... more
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Demonstrators Attack Journalists in Belgrade
Region: Serbia
Posted by Sinisa Boljanovic to Global Voices Online Starting with the night when Radovan Karadzic was arrested, nationalist group members and high-ranking officials of the Serbian Radical Party have been gathering in the streets of central Belgrade. Obraz Fatherland Movement immediately issued a statement (SRP): Belgrade, July 22, 2008 High Treason The arrest of Radovan Karadzic is an act of high treason against... more
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A Life on the Run for Karadzic
Region: Serbia
Karadzic’s cat and mouse game with his pursuers ends in bizarre circumstances. By Caroline Tosh in London As details emerge of captured Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic’s life in hiding, it becomes easier to understand how he managed to evade arrest for so long – in spite of a five million US dollar bounty on his head. Recent pictures show a frail, bespectacled man with a long, wh... more
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Serbian Bloggers Discuss the Arrest of Radovan Karadžić
Region: Serbia
Posted by Sinisa Boljanovic to Global Voices Online Just a few days after the 13th anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica, in which over 7,000 people, most of them Muslim civilians, were killed, Radovan Karadzic, former president of Republika Srpska, is arrested. On the night of July 21-22, many major world media outlets and almost all the media from Serbia immediately issued reports of the arrest. Many bloggers ... more
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War Criminal Karadžić Arrested in Serbia
Region: Serbia
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova to Global Voices Online According to reports, former Bosnian Serb leader and one of the world’s most wanted war criminals Radovan Karadžić has been arrested in Serbia on Monday night. Below are some of the initial reactions from bloggers. Eric Gordy of East Ethnia: The arrest of Karadžić is of course a huge event, leaving just two major suspects (only one of whom is worth th... more
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Serb Volunteers Accused of Further Crimes
Region: Serbia
Witness tells judges about Serb paramilitary attack on Bosnian village in 1992. By Denis Dzidic in The Hague A protected witness in the trial of Vojislav Seselj testified this week that Serb volunteers attacked his village, murdering around 20 residents before imprisoning the rest. Testifying in the Hague tribunal trial of Serb Radical Party, SRS, leader Seselj, the witness said a group of voluntee... more
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Belgrade Dismisses Croatia Genocide Claim
Region: SerbiaSerbia tells ICJ judges that crimes in Croatian war of independence were not genocidal. By IWPR and RFE staff in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo and The Hague (TU No 553, 30-May-08) At a preliminary hearing in Croatia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia at the International Court of Justice, ICJ, Belgrade’s representatives said this week that both sides in the Croatian war committed “misdeeds”, but... more
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Croats Abused in Serbian Prisons, Says NGO
Region: Serbia
By Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade (TU No 552, 23-May-08) A Croatian non-government organisation has called for Serbian and Croatian war crimes prosecutors to investigate allegations of abuse at Yugoslav-army run camps in Serbia during the early Nineties. The Vukovar 1991 group says it has compiled a dossier of evidence to support claims that thousands of Croatian civilians and prisoners of war were killed, t... more
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Secrecy and Justice at the ICTY
Region: Serbia
By Simon Jennings in The Hague Lingering claims that the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, struck a deal with Belgrade which led to controversial Serbian military documents being kept under wraps have fuelled a debate on whether there should be greater transparency of proceedings at the court. Tribunal-watchers have mixed views on the matter. Some say ... more
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