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| | World court opens landmark Bosnian genocide case against Serbia |
 | | A landmark genocide case brought by Bosnia against Serbia-Montenegro before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened with Sarajevo stating that it did not seek revenge but rather to challenge Belgrade's denials of the horrors of the Bosnian war. | | | A landmark genocide case brought by Bosnia against Serbia-Montenegro before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened with Sarajevo stating that it did not seek revenge but rather to challenge Belgrade's denials of the horrors of the Bosnian war | | | Genocide defendent Bosnian Serb, Milan Lukic arrives in the courtroom for his initial appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, on February 24. |
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| | Bosnian Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Bosnian Genocide or Bosnia Genocide was killing of Bosnians, predominantly male Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995 by the army and police forces organized by Republika Srpska. | | | Bosnian genocide case at the International Court of Justice | | | The Bosnian Genocide is a term used by some academic and human rights institutions when referring to the case of genocide that took place in Srebrenica which has been proven at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) through the court case entitled Prosecutor vs Krstić (see Srebrenica Massacre). |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - Bosnian Serb officials sacked |
| | International High Representative Paddy Ashdown on Thursday sacked six Bosnian Serb police and three officials accused of abetting fugitives from the UN war crimes court at | | | The international community has announced a series of tough measures against Bosnian Serb police and officials for allegedly helping fugitive war crimes suspects to evade justice. | | | There was evidence that some in the Bosnian Serb army and police were protecting war-crimes fugitives also in October when police failed to find indicted war crimes suspect Gojko Jankovic during a raid in the eastern town of |
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| | Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This was caused by the ethnic cleansing of non-Serb population, of Bosnian Serb refugees from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to Bosnian war (1992-1995) and of Croatian Serb Croatia due to the Croatian war (1991-1995). | | | Bosnian Serb government resettlement policy also played a part, and some resettlement took place after the war following the Dayton Peace Agreement, subsequent to setting political boundaries (IEBL). | | | Borders of Bosnian state in second part of 15th century |
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| | ABC News: Bosnian Serb War Crimes Suspect Surrenders |
| | ABC News: Bosnian Serb War Crimes Suspect Surrenders | | | The two cousins were members of the notorious Bosnian Serb paramilitary group called the Avengers which fought Bosnian Muslims in eastern Bosnia during the war, according to the war crimes indictment against them. | | | Lukic's cousin, Milan Lukic, who is also charged with war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, was arrested in Argentina in August and was awaiting his extradition to the U.N. tribunal. |
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| | GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Military News and Military Information |
| | A Bosnian journalist in Sarajevo concludes that the war in Bosnia is not between nationalities, noting that before the war the city was comprised of eighty thousand Serbs and thirty thousand Croats and over forty percent of the city's marriages were mixed (Dizdarevic 1993, 6). | | | In fact, the political nature of the Bosnian conflict defies traditional definition but may represent the prototypical conflict for the post-Cold War _____________________ *The architect of Croatia's designs on Bosnia is Tudjman who Zimmerman describes as an "ethnic supremacist" vehemently opposed to Muslims in general and Bosnia's ethnically diverse society in particular (1995, 15). | | | Many states have interests in the region but few interests are critical enough to warrant substantial combined or unilateral efforts. |
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| | Ex-Bosnian General to surrender to UN war crimes court - |
| | Ex-Bosnian General to surrender to UN war crimes court | | | Bosnian officials and some analysts said that Delics indictment was an attempt to distribute guilt in the war unfairly among Serbs, Croats and Muslims. | | | Retired Gen. Rasim Delic, who led the Bosnian Army during the 1992-95 war, said Tuesday evening in an interview with Bosnian TV that he decided to surrender after Bosnian authorities told him that the UN tribunal had indicted him for alleged war crimes. |
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| | CNN - Bosnian Serb Genocide suspect to appear before U.N. court - December 7, 1998 |
| | A former eastern Bosnian enclave with a Muslim majority, Srebrenica remains one of the bloodiest locales of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. | | | Bosnian Serb Genocide suspect to appear before U.N. court | | | The charges include complicity to commit genocide; extermination -- a crime against humanity; murder, a crime against humanity and a violation of the laws or customs of war; and persecutions. |
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| | The Possibilities For 'Humanitarian War' By The International Community In Bosnia-Herzegovina Between 1992 and 1995 |
| | For example Higgins denies that the Bosnian war was a civil war, arguing that the involvement of Serbia made it a clear case of trans-national aggression. | | | It was a widely reported phenomena that during the pre-Dayton Bosnian War (April 92-October 95) those most vociferous in the intervention camp in the west tended to be liberals who in previous circumstances always ruled out the viability of using force to resolve conflict- the 'B-52 Liberals' quoted by Booth (Booth, op.cit., p. | | | The second positivist argument for intervention in Bosnia was predicated on the need to punish Croatia and Serbia for their aggression against the newly-recognised Bosnian state so as to show that force does not pay and to uphold the authority of the UN. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Bosnian state police arrest former Bosnian Serb President |
| | As the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Karadzic is accused of having masterminded _ together with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic _ Bosnia's 1992-95 war, which killed tens of thousands and left another 1.6 million people homeless. | | | In September an international auditor, Tobby Robinson said that millions of Bosnian marks had been embezzled from a bank accused of funneling money to wanted war crimes suspects, and that top officials from the ruling Bosnian Serb party connected to the bank could face charges. | | | Karadzic and his wartime military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic, are the two most-wanted suspects sought by the U.N. court war crimes court based in The Hague, Netherlands. |
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| | Major War Criminals/Suspects |
| | Bulletins of the Rep. of Bosnia-Herzegovina State War Crimes Commission, in English and Bosnian | | | Rules of the War Crimes Tribunal are available at the Court TV site and the U.N. ICTY site | | | The Hague tribunal said Blaskic, Kordic and the others ``are allegedly responsible for the persecution on political, racial and religious grounds of the Bosnian Muslim population of the Lasva valley area of central Bosnia between May 1992 and May 1993 (more information). |
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| | 17 - THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS FOR WESTERN EUROPE'S FOREIGN RELATIONS |
| | The Yugoslav crisis has revealed the great differences that exist in the post-Cold War era between the Americans and the West Europeans in the assessment of a security problem and the ways and means of coping with it. | | | This view was widely shared by many of his top political advisers, who were convinced that the American people would not support US military involvement in a war in Yugoslavia. | | | The crisis has highlighted the divergent perceptions and interests not only between the United States and its European allies but within Europe itself. |
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| | Major War Criminals/Suspects |
| | Bulletins of the Rep. of Bosnia-Herzegovina State War Crimes Commission, in English and Bosnian | | | Rules of the War Crimes Tribunal are available at the Court TV site and the U.N. ICTY site | | | The Hague tribunal said Blaskic, Kordic and the others ``are allegedly responsible for the persecution on political, racial and religious grounds of the Bosnian Muslim population of the Lasva valley area of central Bosnia between May 1992 and May 1993 (more information). |
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| | CNN.com - Bosnian Serb genocide suspect freed - September 6, 2001 |
| | Nicknamed the "Iron lady of Bosnia," and the "Serb Empress," Plavsic was a senior figure in the Bosnian Serb leadership during the civil war of 1992-95. | | | Plavsic, 71, who surrendered voluntarily to the Hague-based United Nations war crimes tribunal in January, was granted permission on August 29 to return to her native Serbia, pending her trial for war crimes. | | | She was indicted by The Hague tribunal on counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for her alleged role in the civil war. |
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| | ISN Security Watch - Bosnian Serbs held in US for immigration fraud |
| | Several top Bosnian Serb military and political officials are already serving sentences for war crimes committed in Srebrenica. | | | Prosecutors said Bozic had lied to immigration officers and claimed to be a Bosnian Croat from the Bosnian town of Tuzla, which was under the control of the Bosnian army during the war. | | | According to Bosnian non-governmental sources, all 13 were members of the Drina Corps - a unit involved in the July 1995 massacre of as many as 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) in the eastern town of Srebrenica. |
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| | The Balkan War |
| | As matter of fact, Navy doctrine specifically addresses the Bosnian War as an example of peacekeeping operations. | | | The main problem with unconventional wars such as the Bosnian conflict is that in most cases the political objectives are not clear or exactly defined. | | | Those actions against the UN and NATO have been conducted not only by the Bosnian Serbs (as may be expected), but also by the Croatians, the Chetniks, and even by the Bosnian Muslims, all for different reasons (to protest against the embargo, to blame their opponents, and so on). |
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| | Rogue's Gallery - Global Policy Forum - International Justice |
| | Ratko Mladic was Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's army chief throughout the Bosnian war and was responsible for the murder of over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men. | | | Special tribunals and national courts now occasionally exercise such jurisdiction as well, and the International Criminal Court has also begun to investigate and hear war crimes. | | | The Special Court for Sierra Leone has indicted Taylor for war crimes. |
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| | Balkan Repository Project - Yugoslav Crisis 1994 |
| | The three parties discussed the creation of a future common state to be composed of the Bosnian Muslims and Croats. | | | The Assembly also adopted a programme of measures and tasks to be taken and carried out in new circumstances, which would be adjusted "to a possible establishment of state of war and its intensification". | | | Alija Izetbegovic, leader of the Bosnian Muslims, accused the Bosnian Serbs for the attack; general Manojlo Milovanovic, chief of staff of the Army of Republika Srpska, rejected the accusation that the Serbian part was responsible for this incident and demanded forming of a mixed expert group that would investigate the case. |
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| | Crimes Of War Project > The Book |
| | The war began on April 6, 1992, with the assault on key cities such as Bijeljina and Zvornik on the Bosnian-Serbian border by the Yugoslav Army and its allied paramilitary groups, followed by the siege of Sarajevo. | | | But the major powers did not get around to naming a chief prosecutor until July 1994, and they gave no support to the Bosnian government when it brought a case for genocide against Serbia at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and West-ern governments instead have repeatedly urged Bosnia to drop that case. | | | But they refused to identify the conflict as an international armed aggression and instead characterized it as a civil war and an ancient ethnic feud, a posture that permitted them to avoid their collective security obligations under the United Nations Charter. |
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| | Bosnian Serb's Genocide Trial Opens - Global Policy Forum - International Justice |
| | Krajisnik, 59, was head of parliament and the right-hand man of Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic during the 1991-1995 Bosnian war, which left an estimated 200,000 people dead. | | | After the war ended in 1995 Krajisnik continued to advocate independence for Bosnian Serbs, but he served as the first Serb representative on the three-member Bosnian presidency, along with a Croat and a Muslim. | | | Bosnian Serb's Genocide Trial Opens - Global Policy Forum - International Justice |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Bosnian Serb gets life sentence |
| | A former Bosnian Serb doctor has been cleared of genocide during the Bosnian war - but convicted of related crimes and sentenced to life in prison. | | | Milomir Stakic was convicted of the persecution, extermination and deportation of thousands Bosnian Muslims and Croats in north-west Bosnia's notorious prison camps during the war. | | | The court found that he was a co-perpetrator, along with other Bosnian Serb officials, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. |
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| | Bosnian Serbs finally admit truth of Srebrenica deaths |
| | The Bosnian Serb government has admitted for the first time that Bosnian Serb forces were responsible for the mass slaughter of Muslims in Srebrenica in July, 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since the end of the Second World War. | | | Analysts believe the government's admission could prepare the population for the possible arrest of the Bosnian Serb war hero, General Ratko Mladic. | | | But many others have faced justice before the war crimes tribunal. |
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| | Belgrade Questions Court's Legitimacy In Bosnian Genocide Case - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Bosnia has accused Serbia of masterminding the widespread ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 war, which claimed up to 200,000 lives and left millions homeless. | | | March 8, 2006 -- Serbia and Montenegro, which is accused by Bosnia of committing genocide during the Balkan wars, has questioned the right of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear the case. | | | Belgrade Questions Court's Legitimacy In Bosnian Genocide Case - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Bosnian ex-general goes on trial |
| | The former head of the Bosnian army, Sefer Halilovic, has gone on trial at The Hague over the killing of Bosnian Croat civilians during the civil war. | | | Mr Halilovic's case follows the trials, already completed or under way, of other Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and Kosovar Albanians. | | | The killings took place when forces under his command were retaking territory controlled by Bosnian Croat forces, seeking to end the blockade of the city of Mostar. |
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| | Al-Qaeda in Bosnia: Bosnian Muslim War Crimes Trial Carl Savich Columns Serbianna.com |
| | Bosnian Muslim General Mehmed Alagic, who commanded the Bosanska Krajina unit of the 3rd Corps, was also charged in the initial war crimes indictment but died on March 7, 2003 awaiting the start of the trial. | | | Bosnian Muslim camp guards Hazim Delic and Esad Landzo were convicted for war crimes against Bosnian Serbs at the Celebici camp. | | | Under the ICTY legal doctrine of command responsibility, Izetbegovic should have been tried as a war criminal for the war crimes known to have been committed by the mujahedeen unit. |
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| | The Black Legion: A History of the 1st Ustasha Regiment Carl Savich Columns Serbianna.com |
| | The systematic genocide committed against the Serbian population of the NDH by Croats and Bosnian Muslims resulted in a mass uprising and a resistance movement that led to a civil war. | | | The population of Kravica participated in the 1875 uprising of Bosnian Serbs against the feudal Bosnian landlords seeking to join the Srebrenica region to Serbia proper. | | | Muhamed Djozic was made the prison warden in Srebrenica. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe 'Brutal crimes' of Bosnia Muslims |
| | Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have been indicted by the tribunal for war crimes but remain at large. | | | Bosnian Muslims committed war crimes including a ritual beheading, the Hague tribunal was told at the start of a landmark trial. | | | The most senior Bosnian Muslim investigated by the tribunal was the country's war-time leader Alija Izetbegovic, who died last month. |
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| | Radicus Internet - Former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria |
| | SARAJEVO, July 23 (AFP) - A former Bosnian Muslim rebel leader on trial in Croatia for war crimes will be allowed to run for a seat on the three-member Bosnian presidency in October, the election commission said on Tuesday. | | | THE HAGUE, Oct 3 (AFP) - War criminals might never be brought to justice if journalists are forced to testify against them, the international war crimes appeal court heard here on Thursday. | | | THE HAGUE, Sept 26 (AFP) - As war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic moved into a new phase on Thursday, the court was preparing to hear evidence against him arising from the bloody wars in Croatia and Bosnia in the early 1990s. |
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| | Crimes, Trials and Laws |
| | NATO detains high-ranking Bosnian war crimes supsect (Momcilo Krajisnik). | | | Indictments Against Dario Kordic and five other Bosnian Croats For Crimes against Humanity, including the Massacre and Atrocities against Bosnian Muslim Civilians in the Lasva Valley and Vitez Part 2 | | | Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 1968 |
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| | The Left Revisionists, by Marko Attila Hoare |
| | Milosevic, currently threatened with life imprisonment in one of the world’s most comfortable prisons, signed the 1995 Dayton Accord that recognised the ICTY and pledged the arrest of Bosnian Serb war criminals. | | | Firstly, Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic was convicted of genocide against the Muslim population of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the first conviction at the ICTY for this gravest of crimes. | | | UN forces drove the Bosnian Army from Mt. Igman in the autumn of 1994, using rocket launchers to destroy its trenches. |
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