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Radovan Karadzic hopes to defend himself against U.N. war crimes charges, his lawyer said Wednesday, raising the prospect that one of Europe’s most wanted men will use the courtroom to preach Serb nationalism and rewrite the history of the Balkan wars.
Radovan Karadzic was preparing his false identity during the autocratic rule of his mentor, an official said Thursday, promising to track down the people who helped the Bosnian Serb warlord stay on the run from genocide charges.
Radovan Karadzic was preparing his false identity during the autocratic rule of his mentor, an official said Thursday, promising to track down the people who helped the Bosnian Serb warlord stay on the run from genocide charges.
Authorities are investigating who helped ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic assume the false identity that helped him elude capture for more than a decade.
Radovan Karadzic’s lawyer says the former Bosnian Serb leader wants to defend himself against U.N. war crimes charges.
A Serbian official says genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic will be handed over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal this weekend or early next week.
Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor says a judge has ordered ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s transfer to the U.N.’s war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic appeared in court after 13 years as the world’s most-wanted war crimes fugitive, a judge said Tuesday, and extradition to The Hague loomed for the accused architect of genocide and other atrocities.
He was accused of masterminding massacres that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.”
President Bush pledged Monday to seek broader international support for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia and said the United States opposes any partition of the poor Balkan nation.
The events played out in Kosovo seem to be the handiwork of two master puppeteers, one the US and the west; the other Russia. One might say that it is a local Serbian problem. True, but Serbia and Kosovan Serbs would not become so emboldened as to...
Kosovo, a long disputed region of Southeastern Europe has finally declared independence after a tumultuous period of violence and bloodshed. Kosovo was earlier recognized as an integral part of Serbia under the name of Autonomous Province of Kosovo...
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If European leaders were hoping that the Balkans would not burst into flames once again, it seems they are in for a disappointment. Only days ago the situation was different. The pro-west Tadic had won the Serbian presidency and there was hope all...
Serbia is a country of great contrasts and dilemma at the moment. On one hand most Serbs want to forget their violent past that resulted in the gradual disintegration of once mighty Yugoslavia in the 1990s while many feel it’s time the country start...
The more one reads about the status quo that is existing over the future of Kosovo presently, one tends to believe that the issue has somewhat been blown overboard by the high-profile presence of the United States and Russia with completely opposite...
Awaiting an independence day
The battle between autonomy and complete independence has reached its finishing stages close to the shores of the Adriatic. The autonomy lobby includes Serbia backed by the Russia while the independence lobby is filled...
The political status of Kosovo is yet to be decided but what is clear is that Serbs are determined to prevent any further disintegration of their country. The once mighty Yugoslavia has been broken into pieces but the issue of Kosovo unites every Serb....
It is a near criminal offense to tie up disabled persons, especially children in their cribs to prevent self-inflicting injuries. But, this is a common occurrence in Serbian psychiatric units. Years of civil wars across the region since the 1990s...
Advertised as “the historical excavator that collapsed communism in Serbia,” a yellow bulldozer that was used by angry demonstrators to storm key government buildings during Serbia’s 2000 popular uprising is now up for sale. This is the excavator...
Portugal national football team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is a fierce character who is brilliant tactically but immensely histrionic at the same time. It seems that his playing career in Brazil, when he was often sent off for excessive arguing with...
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Serbia’s new pro-Western prime minister Mirko Cvetkovic, left, talks with Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, during the government session in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Serbian government is to decide whether to reinstate the...
