Former Bosnian Serb Colonel Oblivious to "Make Life Unbearable" Order
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaColonel Mirko Trivic was part of the forces that captured Srebrenica in July 1995. By Rachel Irwin - International Justice A former colonel in the Bosnian Serb army testified this week that he had no recollection of being ordered to make life intolerable for the Bosnian Muslim residents of the eastern enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa in 1995. ... more
Views: 113UN Envoy's Distress over Bosnian Expulsions
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaYasushi Akashi wrote to Bosnian Serb leader after Bosniaks driven out of Bijeljina. By Rachel Irwin The chief United Nations envoy for the former Yugoslavia during the Bosnian war testified this week at the Hague tribunal about his numerous meetings with wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic. Japanese diplomat Yasushi Akashi was appointed special representative of the UN... more
Views: 537Bosnia's Child Soldiers Fade into Obscurity
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaExploited in war, ignored in peace, former combatants who served as minors in three warring armies want recognition more than anything else. By Aida Mia Alic - In February 1992, 17-year-old Mirsad Geko played his last hockey game in the brightly-lit Zetra Olympic Hall in Sarajevo. In May that year, the war in Bosnia started and Geko gave up his dream of ... more
Views: 811Exonerations Appear to Undermine Hague Tribunal
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaTwo recent appeals hearings ended with senior figures from Serbia and Croatia being fully exonerated. Worryingly, their acquittals were hailed at home as vindication of their respective sides’ wartime actions. By Rachel Irwin When appeals judges at the Hague tribunal quashed the conviction of Momcilo Perisic for crimes committed during the 1990s war in Bosnia, it was the seco... more
Views: 637Yugoslav Army Chief Release Ordered by Appeals Judges
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaIn Bosnia and Croatia, dismay at decision that seems to scrub the Yugoslav military's role in regional conflict. By Ognjen Zorić, Dženana Karabegović Last week's acquittal of former Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic at an appeal hearing in The Hague has been welcomed in Serbia, where it is seen as a vindication of the country's role in the B... more
Views: 384Bosnia:Identifying War Victim's Remains
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaBy David Nelson Painstaking task of identifying remains of war victims and matching them to living relatives. The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The skeletal remains of this young man were found in three different graves around the town of Sr... more
Views: 823Hague Tribunal Upheld Life Sentence for Milan Lukic
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaProsecutors said police reservist grew into "efficient" killer who "enjoyed himself". By Rachel Irwin - Appeals judges at the Hague tribunal this week upheld Milan Lukic’s life sentence for a string of grisly crimes committed against Bosniak civilians in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad in 1992. Lukic, a Bosnian Serb former ... more
Views: 629Wartime Bosnian Serb Leader Says He Deserves Praise, Not Prosecution
Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina
By Rachel Irwin As his defence case opened at the Hague tribunal on October 16, wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic portrayed himself as a mild-mannered physician and “literary man” who tried to prevent war from breaking out in Bosnia. Before judges and a public gallery packed with survivors of the conflict, Karadzic said that instead of being put on trial, he should ... more
Views: 821Serb Party and Bosnian Elections
Region: Bosnia and HerzegowinaRepublika Srpska voters shift preference to ruling party’s opponent because it talks about economic problems rather than nationalist vision. By Maja Bjelajac - International Justice - ICTY Results from last weekend’s local elections indicate that the ruling party in Republika Srpska, RS, failed to convince voters th... more
Views: 1505Perisic Appeal Hearing Set
Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina
Judges will hear appeals case of Momcilo Perisic on October 30. By Rachel Irwin - International Justice - ICTY The appeals hearing for former Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic will take place on October 30, the Hague tribunal announced this week. In September 2011, Perisic was convicted of aiding and abetting crimes committed against civi... more
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