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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s top peace envoy Miroslav Lajcak lifted a travel ban for the family of Bosnian Serb former leader Radovan Karadzic, who was extradited to The Hague war crimes tribunal on Wednesday after 11 years on run.
Read More »Karadzic to make first court appearance Thursday
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will appear before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the first time on Thursday, the court said, and will be asked to enter a plea to the charges against him.
Read More »EU puts off Serbia trade decision
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Tuesday kept up pressure on Serbia to do more to resolve war crimes by again delaying a decision on unfreezing trade benefits despite the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
Read More »Karadzic supporters gather, appeal drags on
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Hardline nationalists gathered to show their support for war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday, while Serbian authorities and his legal team played a cat-and-mouse game over his extradition.
Read More »Seven Bosnian Serbs jailed over Srebrenica killings
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s war crimes court sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs to prison terms ranging from 38 to 42 years on Tuesday for taking part in the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Read More »Serbia says more arrests could follow Karadzic
SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) – The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic showed Belgrade’s willingness to recognize its international obligations, and more arrests could follow, the Serbian prime minister said on Sunday.
Read More »Bosnia threatened with break-up, Ashdown says
LONDON (Reuters) – Bosnia is closer to breaking up than at any time since its 1992-95 war and the European Union must do more to prevent its division, former international peace overseer Paddy Ashdown said.
Read More »EU says Karadzic arrest step forward for Serbia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Serbia’s arrest of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is a milestone on its road to joining the European Union but Belgrade must go further to reap the full benefits, EU ministers said on Tuesday.
Read More »Karadzic arrest marks Serbian break with nationalism
BELGRADE (Reuters) – The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will propel Serbia closer to the rest of Europe and signals a definitive break with the nationalism of the past.
Read More »U.N. lawyers say Bosnian-Serbs burned Muslims alive
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Bosnian Serb cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were accused on Wednesday of imprisoning and burning alive some 140 Muslims and summarily shooting others in some of the cruelest ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian war. Both men face charges of murder, extermination and cruel treatment at the …
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