Friday, 2 may 2025.
Was the Karadzic Verdict a Just Reckoning?
Balkans expert Eric Gordy examines questions raised by the Radovan Karadzic verdict, asking why he was convicted of responsibility for genocide in 1995, but acquitted of the same crime in...
Karadzic Trial: Competing Versions of the Truth
During Radovan Karadzic’s marathon trial, the prosecution brought witnesses to prove he was guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, while testimony from the defence disputed the crimes or tried...
Radovan Karadzic: Psychiatrist, Poet, Politician, Convict?
Radovan Karadzic has had various roles in his lifetime - psychiatrist, poet, political leader and fugitive - but this week he could be sentenced to spend the rest of it...
Karadzic Verdict: Legal Precedents and Unproven Allegations
The Hague Tribunal has legal precedents for some of the charges against Radovan Karadzic, but allegations that genocide was committed in 1992 and UN peacekeepers were taken hostage have never...
Soldier’s 12-Year Trial ‘Costing Bosnia €1.5 Million’
The war crime trial of former Bosnian Army serviceman Samir Bejtic, which has restarted four times and lasted over 12 years, could cost the state more than 1.5 million euros,...
Analysis – Avdovic and Vintila: Former Guard and Cook Accused of War Crimes
During an evidence hearing at the trial of Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian Nicolae Vintila, the defense argued that evidence presented by the prosecution didn’t prove that the defendants are guilty...
No Good Candidates for Bosnian State Court, Six Positions Remain Empty
After three failed open calls for applications and nine months of waiting, the Bosnian High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) has yet to elect a new state level judge. According...
Candlelight Surgery: How Hospitals Survived Sarajevo’s Siege
Sarajevo hospital doctors and medical staff remember how they saved more than 50,000 people during the longest siege in modern history, despite shortages of power and medical supplies.
Deaths Spotlight Hague Tribunal’s Ageing Defendants
The death in custody of Bosnian Serb war criminal Zdravko Tolimir means that 12 defendants at the UN war crimes court in The Hague have now died while on trial...