The war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic, abruptly halted after one day, should be delayed "for weeks rather than months," the UN court's chief prosecutor said Tuesday.
The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted on Thursday, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities" in the high-profile case. [related-articles]The decision was...
The courtroom gallery at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia was packed with survivors of the Bosnian war, journalists and members of the general public who came to witness history: Ratko Mladic, the man once known...
With the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic getting underway Wednesday, the trial of his Dutch negotiating counterpart on the ground in Srebrenica—Dutchbat commander Colonel Thom Karremans—may also be...
In its latest attempt to postpone Wednesday’s trial of the former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs, the defence team for Ratko Mladic appealed Monday for a six-month delay in the start of his war crimes trial, saying delays by...
As a UN court begins its last trial against Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic this week, thousands of suspects remain to be tried for atrocities committed during a decade of Balkans wars. Set up by the United Nations in 1993, the...
After more than two years of evidence, prosecutors on Friday closed their case in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). By Radosa...
An EU-run court in Kosovo on Wednesday acquitted a top ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander-turned-politician and three associates accused of torturing and killing civilians during the 1998-1999 war. British judge Jonathan Welford-Carroll,...
A Bosnian Muslim woman was jailed on Monday for the wartime murders of Croat civilians and prisoners of war, in the country's first conviction of a woman for crimes committed during the 1992-95 conflict. Rasema Handanovic, 39, a single...
Twenty years after war first broke out in the former Yugoslavia, has the ICTY—the first international war crimes Tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo—met any of its loftier goals? By Lauren Comiteau, Hilversum It has long been...