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The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has appointed a British lawyer to represent Radovan Karadzic if the former Bosnian Serb leader continues to boycott his trial when it resumes in March, according to a document released Friday.
U.N. judges trimmed the sentence Thursday of a Bosnian Serb general from 33 to 29 years but upheld his convictions for leading troops who terrorized Sarajevo with a deadly rain of shells and sniper bullets.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor clashed with a war crimes trial attorney Tuesday just minutes after she began cross examining him about his repeated denials of responsibility for atrocities by rebels during Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal ruled Thursday that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed a lawyer to represent him whenever he fails to appear in court.
British lawyers looking for ways to hold Israel accountable for its deadly advance into Gaza last year have expanded their legal campaign by seeking the arrest of Israeli military officers entering Britain.
Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his "fundamental rights have been violated" by judges who started without him.
Bosnia's top official canceled a diplomatic visit to Sweden on Wednesday, angry that the Swedish government chose to grant Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic an early release from jail.
Key dates in the life of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, whose trial on U.N. genocide charges begins Monday:
The Swedish government has approved the early release of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a war crimes tribunal.
U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide case against Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday — despite his continued boycott of the case — calling him the "undisputed leader" of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia's brutal four-year war.
The internationally renowned jurist who oversaw a U.N. report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip said Monday that his deep attachment to the Jewish state compelled him to carry out the investigation.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report that calls on Israel and Hamas to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses — or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called on members of the U.N.'s Human Rights Council to reject a resolution endorsing a report accusing Israeli forces and their Palestinian opponents of war crimes during the fighting in Gaza last winter.
The International Criminal Court said Thursday it has launched a preliminary investigation into last month's violence at a Guinea sports stadium, where presidential guard troops opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators.
A U.N. war crimes report against Israel and Hamas meant to promote justice and accountability has instead created new obstacles for the Obama administration's Mideast peace push and deepened an internal rift among Palestinians.
Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is requesting that the U.N. Security Council pass a resolution exempting him from trial at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, insisting he was promised immunity by an American envoy.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a report on last winter's Gaza conflict that calls on Israel and authorities in Gaza to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses — or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors.
Stung by a damning U.N. report alleging war crimes in Gaza, Israel is taking extraordinary steps to fend off potential international prosecution of its political and military leaders, hiring high-powered attorneys, lobbying Western governments and launching a public relations blitz.
A Serbian court on Monday convicted a wartime Bosnian security officer of ordering a 1992 attack on a Yugoslav army convoy that killed at least 50 soldiers and sentenced him to 12 years in prison
The tiny Cambodian woman trembled slightly and stared blankly ahead as she told the story that has haunted her for half a lifetime: her parents and brother died in Khmer Rouge labor camps. Her baby perished in a refugee camp.
A Guantanamo prisoner who held up a photo of President Barack Obama as a sign of hope at a war crimes court hearing last year said Wednesday he has lost faith that the American leader will be much different than his predecessor.
Four Serbs were arrested Wednesday under suspicion of committing war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, EU police said.
Seventeen former Kosovo rebels went on trial Wednesday before the Serbian war crimes court, charged with murder, rape and torture of Serb civilians in 1999.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has appealed the Oct. 19 start date for his war crimes trial, arguing that judges have not given him enough time to prepare.
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced Tuesday it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution.
Obama: Alleged 9/11 leader will be executedWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Wednesday predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed, as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified in the Senate to defend the strategy of civilian trials for the alleged Sept.
PM's Jewish pitch hits a new low, critics say - thestar.comOTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.
New Film: Can Bush Be Prosecuted for Murder?The fundamental failure of our constitutional laws, international laws, treaties, torture laws, Geneva conventions, all which make up the RULE OF LAW in America to operate, prosecute liars, war criminals, fascist foreign policies, fascist CIA, illegal kidnappings, renditions ha …
Germany arrests top Rwanda rebelsPolice in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hasan Wanted Soldiers he Counseled Prosecuted For WarcrimesMajor Nidal Malik Hasan's military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to "war crimes" during psychiatric counseling, according to investigative reports circulated among federal law enforcement of …
Rabbi who endorses killing babies has an unexpected donor Government ministries regularly transfer support and funding to a yeshiva whose rabbi determined that it is permissible to kill gentile babies "because their presence assists murder,
How long will it take the Israelis to realize the Battle is LostGilad Atzmon - Information Clearing House November 12, 2009 Let's once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of Zionist spin.
The New State SolutionThe collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel's 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948.
American Palestinian Dr Elias Akleh writes on Israel's Piracy, 1967 USS Liberty attack ... Dr Elias Akleh: " In June 8th 1967 during the Six-Day War Israeli planes and torpedo boats attacked the American USS Liberty ship while in international waters with the full knowledge of its identity killing 34 crew members..."
Hamas warns of another Israeli assault on GazaIsmail Haniyah cautions about Israeli plans for another military offensive against the Gaza Strip, reiterating that it is not the Islamic Hamas movement that is after a war.
Are Muslims better people?Two days ago, I read something in the newspapers that really shocked me. It was a statement from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he defended the planned visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Turkey.
MI figures out what went wrong in Lavon affair - 55 years later Fifty-five years after the notorious failure of an Israeli sabotage operation in Egypt, Military Intelligence has finally gotten around to figuring out what went wrong. The answer? Pretty much everything.
UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone reportWell, the Goldstone Report is finally up for debate in the United Nations chambers, and it has just passed its endorsement by the UN General Assembly by a vote of 114 to 18. I really wonder who the 18 nations that voted against this report are?
UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone Report on Israeli et al Gaza atrocitiesThe UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.
Order of Australia for General Petraeus who led US Alliance forces in Occupied Iraq (!)The head of US Central command, General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Occupied Iraq was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia (its highest award) by MP Faulkner at a ceremony in Washington.
VIDEOS: War Crimes Multimedia The following video (Part I and II) produced and directed by Matthias Chang and Christopher Chang was shown at the War Crimes Conference & Exhibition that took place at the Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 28 to 31, 2009.
U.S. House backs resolution to reject Goldstone Gaza reportThe U.S. House of Representatives condemned a UN report Tuesday that accuses Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of committing war crimes in Gaza early this year as irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.
Jewish Settlers Force Way Into East Jerusalem Home, Evict Arab Family (PHOTOS)
Bosnian researchers develop online war crimes mapResearchers in Sarajevo presented an online tool Tuesday showing the locations of Bosnian war crimes in what they called an attempt to prevent death toll numbers from being manipulated and misused.
UN Assembly Draft Urges Action on Gaza 'War Crimes'UNITED NATIONS - Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.
Montrealers Deliver a Fiery Message to Bush: You Are Persona Non GrataThey threw shoes – so many shoes that hotel staff had to roll out a laundry bin onto the street to pick them all up, and even then, the bin could barely contain them all.
UK activists seek arrest of Israeli officersLONDON -- British lawyers looking for ways to hold Israel accountable for its deadly advance into Gaza last year have expanded their legal campaign by seeking the arrest of Israeli military officers entering Britain.
Goldstone v. Ros-Lehtinen and Berman | Capital J | JTA - Jewish & Israel NewsWe reported earlier this week the resolution that U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the senior Republican on the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced condemning the Goldstone report, and urging the Obama administration not to allow it to advance further.
Sri Lanka to probe alleged wartime human rights abuses" Sri Lanka has responded to mounting international criticisms of its wartime conduct by announcing it will appoint a "homegrown" committee to probe alleged human rights abuses.
Obama extends sanctions on Sudan"U.S. President Barack Obama formally renewed U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday under his new strategy of keeping up pressure while offering incentives to the Khartoum government.
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