29 Oct 09 Court May be Wise to Grant Karadzic More Time

If the accused is granted a limited extra period to prepare his defence, he will have no excuse to boycott the proceedings.
28 Oct 09 Timeline: Radovan Karadzic

Here is a timeline of key events in the Bosnian war involving former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, now standing trial for war crimes at the Hague:
grieving-bosnian-mother-waits-to-confront-karadzic 26 Oct 09 Grieving Bosnian Mother Waits to Confront Karadzic

Dzenana Sokolovic who lost her son, aged seven, to a sniper in 1994 will be among the first witnesses to appear at the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader.
italy-honours-heroic-compassion-of-bosnian-widow 15 Oct 09 Italy Honours Heroic Compassion of Bosnian Widow

The selflessness of a poor mother who took in an abandoned child 17 years ago, at the height of the Bosnian war, is recognized in Padua’s Garden of the Righteous.
balkan-prosecutors-failure-to-cooperate-hampers-justice 15 Oct 09 Balkan Prosecutors' Failure to Cooperate Hampers Justice

Lack of extradition agreements between the countries that took part in the conflict is one reason why perpetrators of grave crimes remain at liberty.
amnesty-demands-justice-for-bosnia-war-rape-victims 30 Sep 09 Amnesty Demands Justice for Bosnia War Rape Victims
As rights group slates local courts and authorities and Hague tribunal for failing to defend rape victims, researcher Marek Marczynski says it’s time courts addressed this taboo issue. 
awaiting-state-prison-bosnia-s-entity-jails-overflow 28 Jul 09 Awaiting State Prison, Bosnia's Entity Jails Overflow

Delays in building long awaited high-security state prison mean war-crime convicts have to serve sentences in low-grade entity-run facilities.
let-karadzic-s-trial-be-fair-but-also-quick 22 Jul 09 Let Karadzic's Trial be Fair ' But also Quick

The sooner the former Bosnian Serb leader I know so well is sentenced, the sooner the war he began will finally be over.
24 Jun 09 Milosevic Media Face War Crimes Spotlight
Moves to investigate reporters’ responsibility for war crimes in the 1990s may not end in trials but could deter others from using hate speech in future.
mladic-videos-ancient-history 11 Jun 09 Mladic Videos 'Ancient History'
Footage of indicted ex-general moving round freely in Serbia seems unlikely to derail EU moves to bring Belgrade closer into the fold.
 
01 Jun 09 Refugee War Criminals Pose Dilemma to Scandinavia

Legal systems of Norway, Sweden and Denmark face challenge over residents from former Yugoslavia suspected of having committed crimes back “home” in the 1990s. 
22 Apr 09 Serbian Probe into JNA Deaths Alarms Bosnians

Serbia’s move to investigate the May 1992 killings of JNA soldiers in Sarajevo raises as many questions as it answers.
24 Dec 08 A Year of Progress over War Crimes

In 2008 the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court worked intensively on processing war crime indictees, resulting in a number of arrests and indictments and jail sentences totalling more than 600 years.
12 Dec 08 'Serbia Can't Progress in EU until Mladic in Hague'

Serbia can only achieve full cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal once wartime Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic is at The Hague court, the Dutch Foreign Minister tells Balkan Insight.
17 Sep 08 Macedonia Braces for Albanian War Crimes Trials

Seven years after the 2001 conflict, the first cases involving alleged Albanian war criminals are coming before local courts, but the fact that several defendants are now senior politicians complicates matters.

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