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War crimes prosecutor calls for arrest and trial of fugitives after Milosevic death

March 11, 2006 04:10:00 PM

ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte marked the sudden death of Slobodan Milosevic Saturday by reiterating her call for the remaining fugitives from the Hague war crimes tribunal to be brought to justice and tried....

March 11, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that what is most important about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the wake of his sudden death in jail is not its lack of outcome, but rather...

March 8, 2006 10:24:00 AM

Serbian officials have criticized prison officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for failing to prevent the suicide of Milan Babic , former wartime leader of Croatia's...

March 6, 2006 08:25:00 AM

Milan Babic , former wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs during the Balkan wars, was found dead in his cell at a UN detention facility Sunday after he committed suicide. Babic was sentenced by the...

March 1, 2006 07:20:00 AM

Two British court-appointed lawyers assisting former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have submitted a motion to subpoena former US president Bill Clinton to testify at Milosevic's trial before the International Criminal Tribunal...

February 20, 2006 07:29:00 PM

An Argentine official said Monday that Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Milan Lukic has been handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and is now headed to The...

February 13, 2006 10:44:00 AM

The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic entered its fifth year Monday as proceedings resumed at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , leaving only 22 working days left before...

January 12, 2006 07:27:00 PM

Croatia plans to ask the government of Australia to extradite former Serb commander Captain Dragan Vasiljkovic , charged with war crimes committed during Croatias 1991-1995 independence war. Croatia accuses Vasiljkovic of torturing...

January 9, 2006 06:37:00 PM

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Monday called on Serbia and Bosnia to step up their efforts to find wanted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic , both indicted for genocide and other war...

December 29, 2005 11:28:00 AM

An inquiry by the Pentagon's Inspector General has concluded that websites operated by the US military that pay journalists to write articles and commentary supporting military activities are legal and do not infringe and laws...

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