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A look at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which was established in May 1993 by the U.N. Security Council and was trying Slobodan Milosevic. JURISDICTION: Perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, including grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide and crimes against humanity. ACHIEVEMENTS: More than 160 ethnic Serbs, Croats and Muslims indicted over past 11 years, mostly ethnic Serbs. Milosevic went on trial in February 2002, defending himself against 66 counts of crimes, including genocide, in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. COMPLETED CASES:...

UN war crimes tribunal denies request for Milosevic autopsy in Moscow www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-12 05:50:15 BRUSSELS, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Saturday it had denied a request by Slobodan Milosevic's lawyer to have the autopsy of the former Yugoslavia president conducted in Moscow instead of The Hague.A tribunal official also declined to comment on a claim by Milosevic's lawyer that he had been poisoned while in jail. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Saturday announced that Milosevic had been found dead on his bed in his cell at...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Nationalists in a Serbian town are calling on local authorities to send back a donated Dutch bus because it comes from the country hosting the U.N. war crimes tribunal, which is prosecuting prominent Serb suspects. Local members of the opposition Radical Party, whose leader Vojislav Seselj is in detention awaiting trial at the tribunal, say the tulip-painted bus given to the town of Pirot in southeastern Serbia is an insult. "They should not even think of putting that trash on the streets," said local Radical leader Boban Vojinovic. "Serbian Radicals want no charity from those who are...

Gen. Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, has been located in Serbia and authorities are negotiating his surrender, security officials said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT Mladic, considered the most ruthless commander of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, "has not yet been arrested," one official who is close to the operation to find Mladic told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not entitled to speak to the media. Another security official, also demanding anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information and fears...

Judge Patrick Robinson immediately shut down a Western journalist on the Hague Tribunal witness stand last week, when she disclosed having seen Osama bin Laden waltz into the office of late Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in November 1994. Just as veteran British journalist Eve-Ann Prentice, who covered the Yugoslav conflicts for the Guardian and the Times told of the famous OBL, Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice objected, and the judge “…cut off the testimony immediately declaring it ‘irrelevant,’” according to the defense’s recap of a devastating day of testimony. However, considering that the defendant, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was trying to...

(Exclusively for the use of the media. Not an official document) The Hague, 30 November 2005 CT/MO/1028e o Limaj and Musliu found not guilty on all charges o Both to be released o Bala convicted and sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment The Tribunal today found Fatmir Limaj and Isak Musliu not guilty of all the charges contained in the indictment against them regarding their alleged involvement in crimes committed in the Llapushnik/Lapusnik area of Kosovo and at the Llapushnik/Lapusnik prison camp in 1998. The judges ordered that they be released as soon as the practical arrangements can be made. In...

SARAJEVO, November 15 (FENA) – The international community has, through the UN and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) invested almost a billion USD into the implementation of justice of atrocities committed in former Yugoslavia. This can sound as a large amount of money, but the annual cost of the functioning of the Tribunal is still less than a twentieth of the annual cost of peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia during the way, representative of the ICTY Secretariat in BiH Matias Hellman told FENA. Asked if certain claims that the ICTY is facing bankruptcy were true,...

The other "trial of the century" and international justice Slated to start October 19, the "trial of the century"—a title previously bestowed on the trials of Alger Hiss, Adolf Eichmann, and Michael Jackson—is set to beam from the Middle East into American living rooms. But before we get sucked into the spectacle of Saddam, seven henchmen, and five judges, it's worth checking in with another has-been despot. Hussein is not the first dictator to be removed from his country at the behest of the U.S. government, accused of war crimes, and held up for judgment; he's the second in five...

www.slobodan-milosevic.org - September 20, 2005 Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Vojislav Seselj concluded his testimony at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday. Mr. Nice briefly re-opened the cross-examination at the beginning of the hearing. He didn’t score any points, but he did give Seselj a chance to point out another flaw in videotape that the prosecution played last Thursday. Last Thursday Mr. Nice played videotape, filmed by prosecution witness Van Linden, of an alleged English-speaking “Serbian Chetnik” in Vukovar during the war. Today Dr. Seselj noted that this so-called “Chetnik” was wearing his wedding ring on his left hand, like...

A Bosnian Serb fugitive sentenced for crimes committed during the Bosnian war and wanted by a UN war crimes court has been arrested in Argentina. Police say Milan Lukic, who has been on the run for more than five years, was arrested in Buenos Aires. He was indicted by the UN's war crimes tribunal for crimes said to have been carried out during the Bosnian war. He is also wanted in Serbia, where he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison for war crimes. 'Reign of terror'In 2003, a court in Belgrade found Lukic and three other men...

Pressure mounts to reopen Milosevic case [The Hague] -- UN prosecutors have applied to reopen their case against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to present new evidence including a shocking video of the murder of six Muslims, the Hague tribunal said.Prosecutors wrapped up their case in February 2004 after calling about 290 witnesses over two years. Milosevic launched his defence last August but his poor health has repeatedly delayed the trial, now expected to last well into 2006. Milosevic is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo during the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia...

Serbs, Lies, and Videotape By Julia Gorin FrontPageMagazine.com | June 17, 2005 Recently, “Hannity & Colmes”, of the usually less-easily-fooled-than-other-networks Fox News Channel, treated us masses to a “genocide” video that’s just been handed over to the Hague’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Pouring even more gasoline onto the carefully cultivated and long accepted caricature of the evil Serb, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes were of one mind when Hannity called the actions of the Bosnian Serb soldiers in the video “pure evil” and “evil incarnate.” Without being wrong about evil on display in the video, the...

Hague court grants Kosovo ex-PM provisional release 06 Jun 2005 15:34:30 GMT AMSTERDAM, June 6 (Reuters) - The U.N. tribunal in The Hague said on Monday it had decided to provisionally release former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pending his war crimes trial. Haradinaj is the most senior former Kosovo guerrilla to be indicted by the tribunal for alleged atrocities in the 1998-99 separatist war against Serb forces. He is considered a hero by many Kosovo Albanians. A former regional commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Haradinaj surrendered to the U.N. tribunal in March, winning praise for his prompt compliance...

RFE/RL: How are those indicted for war crimes by the Hague-based tribunal regarded in Serbia and Croatia? Our guests are: Natasa Kandic, director of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, and Zoran Pusic, president of the Civic Committee for Human Rights in Zagreb. The Serbian government recently saw off former General Vladimir Lazarevic, indicted for crimes committed in Kosovo, with what seemed like full honors as he left for The Hague. He was escorted by two ministers, and before leaving he had an audience with Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle together with Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Ms. Kandic, how do...

Those who volunteer to testify against ex-KLA guerrillas in The Hague are going against a long tradition of loyalty and silence. By Michael Farquhar in The Hague (TU No 400, 01-Apr-05) As Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj awaits the opening of proceedings against him in The Hague, there are signs the tribunal’s work with other Albanian indictees faces significant problems of witness intimidation. Protected witness L-96 was called by Hague prosecutors to tell how, in the summer of 1998, he and other detainees of a brutal prison camp in the village of Lapusnik were lined up by an execution squad...

ZAGREB - Croatia is ready to extradite former Macedonian interior minister Ljube Boskovski, currently in jail in the country, to the UN war crimes tribunal that charged him with war crimes, Justice Minister Vesna Skare-Ozbolt said Monday. -snip- Boskovski, who has both Croatian and Macedonian citizenship, was arrested and detained in Croatia in August last year on a warrant issued by Skopje accusing him of the murder of seven South Asian immigrants in 2002. In February Zagreb indicted him over the same charges. A Macedonian interior ministry spokeswoman said in Skopje earlier Monday that Boskovski and his bodyguard Johan Trculovski...

ERP KiM Newsletter 10-03-05 News Agencies on KosovoKosovo's prime minister joins Milosevic as he awaits war crimes trialStephen Castle in Brussels THE INDEPENDENT , March 10, 2005 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=618444 Two cars believed to be carrying the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj enter the U.N. detention unit in Scheveningen, near The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday March 9, 2005. Haradinaj is to face war crime charges for his alleged role in atrocities committed during the 1998-1999 war between ethnic Albanians and Serb forces. (AP Photo/Serge Ligtenberg) ONE DAY after stepping down as Kosovo's prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj was last night awaiting a court appearance...

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Kosovo's ethnic Albanian prime minister has been charged with war crimes by the United Nations tribunal and will resign his post Tuesday to answer accusations in The Hague, a senior government source said. Rumours that Ramush Haradinaj was about to be charged by Hague chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte had circulated since before he became prime minister last December, raising fears of violence if NATO peacekeepers were forced to arrest him. "Yes, the Prime Minister has been informed he has an indictment," a senior official in the Kosovo government told Reuters. "We have to...

After two persons from the Skopje emergency medical service testify that there were no wounded people or people with visible injuries from violence among the Kosovo refugees who came to Macedonia in the spring of 1999, Milosevic claims it is “clear that these people fled before NATO bombs, not before fire opened by the Serbian security forces or their batons.” THE HAGUE, 1.3. (SENSE) - If the Albanian civilians who were leaving Kosovo in the spring of 1999 were fleeing the Serbian security forces that had beaten them and opened fire on them, then - as Slobodan Milosevic noted today...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands Feb 28, 2005 — Two generals from opposite sides of the Bosnian war, a Muslim and a Serb, surrendered to the U.N. war crimes tribunal Monday to answer charges they were responsible for atrocities during the brutal 1992-95 conflict. Gen. Rasim Delic, 56, the former commander of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army, was in charge of foreign Islamic volunteers who allegedly murdered, beheaded, tortured and raped Bosnian Croat civilian prisoners. Hours after Delic surrendered, Gen. Radivoj Miletic turned himself in to tribunal authorities for trial on charges related to the deaths of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians...