SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Former Sarajevo soccer star Predrag Pasic clearly remembers how Radovan Karadzic, who was recently arrested and sent to The Hague on war crimes charges, tried to inspire the team as its Socialist-era psychologist.
Read More »Karadzic demands Holbrooke, Albright appear in court
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded on Wednesday that former U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appear at the U.N. war crimes tribunal to back his claims of an immunity offer from the United States.
Read More »U.N. probe criticizes March Kosovo raid: diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A United Nations investigation into the March storming of a courthouse by U.N. and NATO troops in northern Kosovo criticizes the force for rushing in, diplomats briefed on its contents said on Friday.
Read More »Montenegro charges 8 over murder of 23 Albanians
PODGORICA (Reuters) – Montenegro has charged eight former soldiers over their role in the 1999 killing of 23 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo, a lawyer of the victims’ families said on Friday.
Read More »Karadzic sees no chance of fair trial
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said it is unimaginable he could get a fair trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal because the world’s media have already branded him a war criminal.
Read More »U.S. Bosnia negotiator dismisses Karadzic deal claim
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former U.S. peace mediator for Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, on Thursday dismissed a claim by Radovan Karadzic that the United States had offered a deal that would spare him prosecution for war crimes.
Read More »Bosnians want Karadzic trial to shed light on war
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Radovan Karadzic’s appearance before a U.N. judge in The Hague on Thursday starts a process that many Bosnians hope will help them understand better what happened during the 1992-95 war.
Read More »Israeli envoy condemns funeral of Croat Nazi
ZAGREB (Reuters) – Israel’s ambassador in Croatia on Thursday condemned the funeral given to a World War Two concentration camp head, saying it insulted the memory of those killed in the camp run by Croatia’s Nazi-allied Ustasha regime.
Read More »Karadzic asks for more time to study war crimes case
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said he would like more time to study genocide charges against him before entering a plea, when he appeared in court for the first time on Thursday.
Read More »FACTBOX: Who is Radovan Karadzic?
(Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared before a U.N. war crimes judge for the first time on Thursday to answer genocide charges after his dramatic arrest that ended 11 years on the run.
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