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  • Kate Mortimer 24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT
    ... Kate Mortimer, who has died aged 62 of lung ... relief of East Pakistan, in cooperation with Unicef and the World Health Organisation, after the ... in Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Albania and Russia. She had traversed the contemporary ...

  • After Karadzic, will Mladic be next behind bars? 24 Jul 2008 00:36 GMT
    ... Ratko Mladic. The surprise capture of former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadzic on UN genocide charges ... _ soon could join him behind bars. Serbian authorities made a startling disclosure on Tuesday ... Netherlands, represents a huge step for the Balkan country, the international community wasted no time in ...

  • Despite complaints, international justice is advancing 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
    ... It is only a little more than 15 years ago ... of Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnia's Serbs. Yet there is already a persistent ... have helped as the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia negotiated an end to the ...

  • The Meaning of Karadzic 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
    ... that promises were kept. The day that Serbian security forces met their responsibilities. The day ... July 24, 1995. The former president of Bosnia's rebel Serbs and a key architect of ... the future rather than the past. The Balkan people can now move forward, unburdened by one ...

  • Rights Activists Step Up Opposition to Corporate Complicity in Torture 23 Jul 2008 20:19 GMT
    ... Rights Activists Step Up Opposition to Corporate Complicity in ... Santa Clara County Supervisor Pete McHugh joined human rights and peace activists from San Jose and ... Szymany, Poland and in Bucharest and Timisoara, Romania. The American Civil Liberties Union ( ) ...

  • Karadzic arrest signals big change in Serbia from nationalist past 23 Jul 2008 18:58 GMT
    ... BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Just a few months ago, ... is sick and tired of this old Balkan story. Enough was enough. Tadic's new pro-Western government ... bundled into a police van. The former Bosnian Serb leader soon is expected to be ...

  • Right to Protection (R2P) from the World's Rich 23 Jul 2008 18:27 GMT
    ... major industries, infrastructure & resources of the Balkans & East Europe facilitated by the NATO ... an enemy. There are NATO bases in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo & Hungary …this is ...

  • Karadzic arrest boosts Balkans, international justice 23 Jul 2008 17:17 GMT
    ... Agence France-Presse report on the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic. The ... it offers an unexpected uplift in the Balkans, where cynicism about unarrested war criminals, including ... "greater Serbia" campaign that sought territory in Croatia and Bosnia by killing or ejecting non-Serbs. ...

  • EU euphoria over Karadzic arrest 23 Jul 2008 16:51 GMT
    ... figures have welcomed the arrest of former Bosnian-Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic. Karadzic, one of the ... men in Europe who has evaded the Serbian authority’s attempts to arrest him since 1996, ... new era of peaceful negotiations between the Balkan neighbours and with the EU." Terry Davis, secretary ...

  • Walker's World: Europe's Obamania 23 Jul 2008 16:17 GMT
    ... paramilitary and police training required in the Balkan states. It really is extraordinary that U.S. troops ... that U.S. troops stayed so long in Bosnia and Kosovo, in Europe's own back yard. Europe makes ...

  • Karadzic to defend himself, mirroring Milosevic 23 Jul 2008 16:16 GMT
    ... Kikinda Television shows former Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, right, attending ... Serb politician wanted for "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia. --------------------------- - World leaders hails 'historic' Karadzic ... whom died during the 'democratisation' of the Balkans by the West," Dmitry Rogozin said in ...

  • Serbian arrest: And then there was one 23 Jul 2008 15:55 GMT
    ... THE surprise capture and arrest of former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadzic has raised expectations that ... bars. Of the trio who terrorised the Balkans, only Mladic is still at large. strongman ... orchestrating the bloody siege of during the Serbian-Bosnia war in 1992-95 and the wanton slaughter ...

  • And then there was one 23 Jul 2008 15:54 GMT
    ... THE surprise capture and arrest of former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadzic has raised expectations that ... bars. Of the trio who terrorised the Balkans, only Mladic is still at large. strongman ... orchestrating the bloody siege of during the Serbian-Bosnia war in 1992-95 and the wanton slaughter ...

  • Richardson Draws Upon Diplomacy, State Executive Experience in Run for President 23 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT
    ... release of political prisoners and improvement of human rights. After a return visit a month later, ... leader Slobodan Milosevic, who gave him a Balkan peace plan to take back to Washington. The ...

  • Beware of political activists in robes 23 Jul 2008 15:26 GMT
    ... Karadzic at his own evaluation as a Serbian patriot, by being available to be captured ... men and boys, the one-timepresident of Serbian Bosnia couldn't be utilized as a chip in ... he is. Ivan Vejvoda, director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, has been quoted as calling ...

  • Rights' Group Pans Macedonia 'Staged Arrests' 23 Jul 2008 14:53 GMT
    ... Skopje _ The idea that one is innocent ... until proved guilty is being ignored by Macedonian police as it continues to arrest suspects ... by Macedonia’s constitution, Macedonia’s Helsinki Committee for Human Rights said Wednesday. “It is symptomatic how the ...

  • Karadzic to defend himself at Hague, says lawyer 23 Jul 2008 14:53 GMT
    ... Undated image of Radovan Karadzic held up at ... conference in Belgrade. Photograph: Darko Vojinovic/AP The Bosnian genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic will conduct his ... to live and work freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. Karadzic now looks "exactly the ...

  • The ICC's Bashir Indictment: Law Against Peace 23 Jul 2008 14:15 GMT
    ... On July 14, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International ... time of the massacre of eight thousand Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in July 1995. "You ... Krstic was welcomed by numerous commentators and human rights organizations as an important step forward in ...

  • International Justice/ICTY: Jun '08 23 Jul 2008 14:15 GMT
    ... Article investigating the sale of information on mass ... in the region. Hague court representative in Bosnia Refik Hodzic said the story, Bosnian Burial ... of Witness Intimidation, which investigated allegations that Serbian Radical Party, SRS, leader Vojislav Seselj is ...

  • Reporting Impact Jun '08 23 Jul 2008 14:15 GMT
    ... Article investigating the sale of information on mass ... in the region. Hague court representative in Bosnia Refik Hodzic said the story, Bosnian Burial ... of Witness Intimidation, which investigated allegations that Serbian Radical Party, SRS, leader Vojislav Seselj is ...

  • George Jonas: Beware of political activists in robes 23 Jul 2008 13:17 GMT
    ... A combination photo shows Bosnian Serb wartime leader and indicted war crimes ... Karadzic at his own evaluation as a Serbian patriot, by being available to be captured ... he is. Ivan Vejvoda, director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, has been quoted as calling ...

  • Bosnian Serb leader arrested 23 Jul 2008 12:53 GMT
    ... BELGRADE, Serbia – Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white ... the run. Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, was arrested Monday night in a ...

  • Karadzic to defend himself at The Hague, lawyer says 23 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT
    ... Undated image of Radovan Karadzic held up at ... conference in Belgrade. Photograph: Darko Vojinovic/AP The Bosnian genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic will conduct his ... to live and work freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. The leader of the Bosnian ...

  • The EU and Serbian Civil Society 23 Jul 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... Understanding Serbia's situation "requires a re-examination of the whole Yugoslavia ... education system that promotes European values.  Include  human rights organisations as partners when creating a new ...

  • Karadzic 'to defend himself' at Hague 23 Jul 2008 12:28 GMT
    ... Undated image of Radovan Karadzic held up at ... conference in Belgrade. Photograph: Darko Vojinovic/AP The Bosnian genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic will conduct his ... to live and work freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. The leader of the Bosnian ...


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