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Radovan Karadzic snubs Hague court
Monday 26 October 2009
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused to attend the start of his war crimes trial today saying he was not ready, and judges said they would impose a legal team on him if he failed to show up again.
Leading article: From Srebrenica to The Hague
Monday 26 October 2009
Radovan Karadzic is a name from the past, but suddenly it is a name for the present, too. His trial for war crimes is due to open today at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Proceedings may yet be postponed; the defendant sent a letter to the court last week saying that his defence was not ready. Or the trial may open, and Mr Karadzic will act on his threat not to turn up. The former Bosnian Serb leader, who was arrested last year after a decade in hiding, clearly sees no reason to simplify the prosecutors' lives.
Chilcot inquiry may consider legality of Iraq war
Thursday 15 October 2009
The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war has appointed one of the most renowned experts on international law as an adviser, in what is viewed as an indication that the Blair government's legal justification for the invasion is to come under serious scrutiny.
Mark Steel: Learning the lessons of the turnip-dumping war of 1352
Wednesday 07 October 2009
I wonder if one day you'll be able to opt out of paying for war you don't like
Spokesman in court for contempt in Milosevic trial
Tuesday 16 June 2009
The lawyer for a former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman told UN judges yesterday they would be reining in free speech if they convicted his client of deliberately breaching confidentiality orders.
Tangled justice for Kosovo
Friday 27 February 2009
Former Serbian president cleared of ethnic cleansing as three officials sentenced to 22 years for war crimes
Karadzic refuses to enter plea at UN war crimes tribunal
Saturday 30 August 2008
The Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made a defiant stand before a UN court yesterday when he refused to enter pleas to genocide charges brought against him following atrocities in the Bosnian war of the 1990s.
Karadzic plea entered as 'not guilty' by tribunal
Friday 29 August 2008
The UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for war crimes and genocide charges on Friday after he refused to enter one.
Geoffrey Robertson: This trial must be short and sharp
Friday 01 August 2008
The big question now that Radovan Karadzic has appeared in the dock at the Hague is whether justice will be seen to be done better than in the convoluted, inconclusive trial of the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.
Karadzic 'is planning to defend himself'
Wednesday 23 July 2008
Radovan Karadzic's lawyer says the former Bosnian Serb leader wants to defend himself against UN war crimes charges.
As Europe celebrates arrest of Karadzic, hunt is on for Mladic
Wednesday 23 July 2008
Radovan Karadzic, the captured Bosnian Serb leader accused of the deaths of 20,000 people, was revealed to have spectacularly reinvented himself as a Belgrade healer as the pressure mounted on Serbia to hand over his suspected partner in masterminding the worst atrocity in Europe since the Second World War, Ratko Mladic.
War general Mladic still at large
Tuesday 22 July 2008
The capture of Radovan Karadzic raises the question of whether his arch ally General Ratko Mladic could soon be in detention too.
'When your child dies, your life as you know it ends'
Tuesday 20 June 2006
After a sudden illness killed her daughter, Josie Klafkowska wanted a way to mark her memory - and help prevent other deaths
How young Serbs rocked the castle
Thursday 14 July 2005
The Exit festival in Novi Sad began as a massive political protest. Radio 1's Annie Nightingale joined the throng this year
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