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A chronology of key events 1389 - Serb nobility decimated in battle of Kosovo Polje as Ottoman Empire expands. 15th - 18th centuries - Serbia absorbed by Ottoman Empire. 1817 - Serbia becomes autonomous principality. 1878 - Serbian independence recognise
Thanks to the online video feed from the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, I have been watching Radovan Karadzic rebut charges that he ordered the murder of 7,000-plus Muslim prisoners following the fall of Srebrenica. It is a curtain-raiser to the arguments
A former officer in the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, told the trial of Radovan Karadzic this week that the take-over of Srebrenica in July 1995 was “well-orchestrated”, and that it was made to clear to him beforehand that a massacre was planned. Momir Nikolic
Via AKI: A prosecution witness in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic described on Wednesday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia what he called “deliberate killings” of thousands of Muslims in easter
If you saw casualties picked up from a battlefield, you would expect to see that sort of information reflected in the graves, and it wasn't. The mass graves, the execution points, contained bodies and individuals that indicated they had been executed, no
Radovan Karadzic’s wartime personal secretary told The Hague tribunal this week that her boss, then the president of Republika Srpska, was a “kind person” who was “not intolerant” of people of other ethnicities. Mira Mihajlovic, a witness for the prosecu
Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic claimed this week that blindfolds found in mass graves near Srebrenica may actually have been bandanas worn by combatants in the Bosnian government army. The remarks came during the cross-examination of pros
Natasa Kandic has been the frequent target of death threats and vicious pressure campaigns. But the 60-something lawyer still rides the public bus every day to work. She says it gives her a valuable chance to talk to ordinary people -- fans and critics a
An excerpt from “The Death of Yugoslavia,” featuring an interview with the Russian diplomat Vitaly Churkin. As my colleague Neil MacFarquhar reports , Russia’s envoy to the United Nations has refused to endorse a Security Council resolution that seeks to
Leadership impunity for the commission of atrocity crimes is on the losing side of history now. To understand why the highest political and military leaders are increasingly at risk of indictment and prosecution today—why Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif
Accused asks for subpoena to get Karolos Papoulias to disclose "relevant and necessary" information. Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic this week asked judges to subpoena the current president of Greece so he can be interviewed by the accused
A Bosniak woman who lost her husband and two sons in the Srebrenica massacre testified this week about the desperate conditions and constant shelling endured by people in the enclave before it fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. Prosecution witness
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Thursday to order the Greek president to give evidence for his war crimes trial. "Radovan Karadzic... moves for the issuance of a subpoena to Greek President Carol
The Bosnian Serb army prevented fuel and other necessities getting into the Srebrenica enclave and also stole United Nations vehicles, a former member of the UN Dutch Battalion said this week during the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Prosecution witness Robe
A chronology of key events: 1908 - Bosnia-Hercegovina annexed to Austria-Hungary. 1914 - A Bosnian Serb student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinates the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. This precipitates World War I. 1918 - Austria-Hungary collap
In Angelina Jolie’s first outing as a producer and director– a heart-rending film plaintively named In the Land of Blood and Honey. Jolie is joining the ranks of a very, very thin herd– as the Hollywood Reporter recently reported, startlingly few women h
A witness who refused to testify in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic this week pleaded not guilty to contempt charges. Milan Tupajic, former chief of the crisis staff and president of the Serb municipality of Sokolac in Repub
Former member of Dutch contingent retells experiences at time of Srebrenica massacre. Prosecutors at The Hague tribunal this week opposed a request by wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic to have the personal notebooks of a recent witness su
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The U.N. tribunal for the Balkan conflicts Thursday charged a former Serb official with contempt of court for refusing to testify at Radovan Karadzic 's trial. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia charg
Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић) (born June 19, 1945) is a former Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist and is currently a fugitive indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. There is currently an outstanding international arrest warrant against Karadžić... Full Article
A protestor hold up photographs of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic (R) and wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (L) during an anti-government rally in front of the local parliament building on May 29, 2011, to protest the arrest of Mladic. Mladic is being detained by the local...
View Photo »Supporters of the Serbian Radical Party hold pictures of general Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic (R) during a protest against Mladic's arrest in Belgrade May 29, 2011. Mladic, indicted for genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica...
View Photo »Portraits of indicted war criminals Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic (R) and Bosnian Serb army commander General Ratko Mladic are displayed for sale at a street market in Banja Luka, May 26, 2011. Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on Thursday after...
View Photo »A woman watches pictures of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (upper row, center) and his former army chief Ratko Mladic (upper row, right) - two top fugitives who have been on the run for a decade since they were charged with genocide by the UN war crimes tribunal at The...
View Photo »A person shows an improvised watch, in northwestern Bosnian town of Prijedor, 18 June 2005, with pictures of two top fugitives - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (L) and his former army chief Ratko Mladic - who have been on the run for a decade since they were charged with...
View Photo »Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (L) listens to General Ratko Mladic in Pale in this May 6, 1993 file photo. Mladic, whose long evasion of arrest on genocide charges has blocked Serbia's progress towards the European Union, was arrested in Serbia, President Boris Tadic said.
View Photo »Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic (L) and Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic enter the Russian embassy in Belgrade in this July 26, 1994 file photo. Mladic, whose long evasion of arrest on genocide charges has blocked Serbia's progress towards the European Union, was...
View Photo »Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (R) and his military commander Ratko Mladic attend a meeting of the Bosnian Serb leadership in Pale, in this August 4, 1994 file photo. Mladic, who has been arrested in Serbia, is accused of orchestrating the methodical slaughter of up to 8,000...
View Photo »Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (R) and his war-time.commander Ratko Mladic talk to each other on Vlasic. mountain, in the Dinaric Alps, in this 1995 file photo. Serbia has arrested Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic who is wanted by an international court on genocide...
View Photo »File picture shows Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (R) and his general Ratko Mladic on Mountain Vlasic, April 1995 file photo. Serbian police have arrested a man suspected to be the wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, an Interior Ministry official said on May 26, 2011. ...
View Photo »FILE - This is an undated photo of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, left, and Gen. Ratko Mladic at an assembly session in Pale, near Sarajevo, Bosnia. Mladic, Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive, has been arrested in Serbia, the country's president said Thursday, May...
View Photo »Bosnian Serb's hold photos of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, right, and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic with Mladic, center, during a protest in support of Gen. Ratko Mladic, in Banja Luka 240 kms northwest from Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. ...
View Photo »FILE - This combination of three photos shows from left to right: a January 2002 file photo of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as he appears at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands; former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appearing before the same...
View Photo »A man holds up pictures of indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic during a protest in Belgrade in this September 25, 2002 file photo. Mladic, whose long evasion of arrest on genocide charges has blocked Serbia's progress towards the European Union, was arrested in...
View Photo »FILE - In this May 18, 1993 file picture, U.N. Commander General Philippe Morillon of France, center, speaks with Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, left, accompanied by Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, second right, following a meeting in Pale, Bosnia-Herzegovina on the future of...
View Photo »File picture shows Bosnian Muslim Suhra Malic pray at the Memorial Center in Potocari October 26, 2009 before watching proceedings at the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, whose long evasion of arrest on genocide...
View Photo »File picture shows Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrenica, sitting under pictures of victims of the genocide, as they react while watching Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's court proceedings on television in their office in Tuzla July 31, 2008, during his initial appearance...
View Photo »Wine bottles whose labels show Radovan Karadzic, the ex Bosnian Serb wartime leader, left, and Ratko Mladic, genocide suspect lay in a cupboard in the office of Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic, unseen, during a press conference, in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, March 9,...
View Photo »Darko Mladic, the son of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic, center, and Ratko's wife Bosiljka, rear, leave the Special Court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Ratko Mladic was arrested on Thursday in a village in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Ratko Mladic is eating...
View Photo »Ratko Mladic's family's lawyer Milos Saljic leaves the Special Court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Ratko Mladic was arrested on Thursday in a village in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Ratko Mladic is eating strawberries and receiving family visits in a Serbian...
View Photo »Biserka Petrovska Domagadzijev, left, a family friend kisses Bosiljka Mladic, the wife of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic, in front of the Special Court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Ratko Mladic was arrested on Thursday in a village in Serbia after 16 years on the...
View Photo »Bosiljka Mladic, the wife of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic, right, speaks with their son Darko in front of the Special Court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Ratko Mladic is eating strawberries and receiving family visits in a Serbian jail, but as early as Monday...
View Photo »In this photo provided by Press newspaper, Saturday May 28, 2011, the Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested Thursday, May 26, 2011, is seen at an undisclosed location at an unknown time after his arrest in Serbia after years in hiding. Mladic is eating strawberries...
View Photo »A man with dog passes in front of the Special Court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Ratko Mladic was arrested on Thursday in a village in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Ratko Mladic is eating strawberries and receiving family visits in a Serbian jail, but as...
View Photo »Serbian police officers guard the Special Court building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Ratko Mladic was arrested on Thursday in a village in Serbia after 16 years on the run. Ratko Mladic is eating strawberries and receiving family visits in a Serbian jail, but as early...
View Photo »A protestor hold up photographs of Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic (R) and wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (L) during an anti-government rally in front of the local parliament building on May 29, 2011, to protest the arrest of Mladic. Mladic is being detained by the local...
View Photo »You know ... you should have looked into the documents I issued myself. Documents, orders, directives: appealing and urging that the civilians should be protected, in particular the non-Serbs. But none of these documents were considered in your reports.
familiar with the fact that some people from paramilitary units were acting in a way which was not acceptable
