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Jul 30, 2008 5:23 AM CDT

Karadzic Delivered to Hague

Riots break out as Karadzic is spirited to Holland

(Newser) - Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was whisked from a Serbian jail and handed over to UN officials today to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide. He's expected to appear at court today. The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs was escorted by masked officers from the...

Hiding Was 'Easy,'
Boasts Karadzic

Jul 25, 2008 2:51 AM CDT

Hiding Was 'Easy,' Boasts Karadzic

War crimes suspect refusing to eat

(Newser) - Captured Serbian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has been refusing to eat in his Belgrade cell since his arrest more than a week ago—but has been boasting about life on the lam. Karadzic claims he had planned to turn himself in next year, reports the Guardian. Karadzic was nabbed...

Karadzic to Defend Himself in Genocide Trial

Jul 23, 2008 9:24 AM CDT

Karadzic to Defend Himself in Genocide Trial

Bosnian war crimes suspect also wants a shave and a trim

(Newser) - Bosnian genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic plans to defend himself when he stands trial in the Hague, his lawyer said today. He also plans to lose the Santa Claus beard and pony tail, having requested a shave and haircut, the BBC reports. Karadzic, a former psychiatrist who spent more than a...

Former Kosovo Leader Acquitted
of War Crimes

Apr 4, 2008 4:30 AM CDT

Former Kosovo Leader Acquitted of War Crimes

Ex PM cleared of attacks on ethnic Serbs

(Newser) - The UN's tribunal in the Hague has acquitted a former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes. Ramush Haradinaj, who also briefly served as the breakaway province's prime minister, was cleared of murder, persecution, rape and torture of Kosovo Serb civilians. The verdict threatens...

UN Convicts Serbian Officer of War Crimes

Sep 28, 2007 1:20 PM CDT

UN Convicts Serbian Officer of War Crimes

Tribunal's verdict draws fire from Croatia for 'shocking' leniency

(Newser) - A Serb officer was convicted yesterday of aiding and abetting murder and torture, and sentenced to 20 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, enraging Croatians, the Times of London reports. The case concerned the 1991 massacre at Vukovar, a Croatian town where hundreds of...

Former Serb Leader Guilty
of War Crimes

Jun 12, 2007 7:28 AM CDT

Former Serb Leader Guilty of War Crimes

Led ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs in early-90s Croatia

(Newser) - Former Serb rebel leader Milan Martic has been convicted of murder and other atrocities in Croatia in the early 1990s and sentenced to 35 years in jail. The international war crimes tribunal in the Hague found Martic guilty of ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs when he was leader of the so-called...

Charles Taylor Skips War Crimes Trial

Jun 4, 2007 4:46 AM CDT

Charles Taylor Skips War Crimes Trial

Former President of Liberia accused of atrocities in Sierra Leone

(Newser) - Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, didn't show up for the opening of his war-crimes trial in The Hague today, the BBC reports. He is accused of fostering a long bloody civil war in Sierra Leone marked by crimes against humanity, terrorism, rape and the use of child soldiers....

Bosnian War Crimes Suspect Captured

Jun 1, 2007 5:59 AM CDT

Bosnian War Crimes Suspect Captured

Wanted in 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys

(Newser) - One of the most-wanted war criminals in the world—a suspect in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims —has been arrested in Bosnia. Zdravko Tolimir, a 58-year-old Bosnian Serb, was a close aide of Ratko Mladic, the general who led the slaughter, who is still a fugitive,...

Court Convicts 12 of Serbian PM's Murder

May 23, 2007 8:32 AM CDT

Court Convicts 12 of Serbian PM's Murder

Gangsters, secret police guilty of 2003 assassination

(Newser) - A Belgrade court convicted twelve men of the murder of Zoran Djindjic, the pro-Western PM of Serbia who was gunned down in 2003. The dozen defendants included alleged mobsters and members of the secret police; the two ringleaders will go away for 40 years after what Serbs called the "...