Monday, 15 september 2025.
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: ‘I Expect to be Acquitted’
In a defiant interview before his trial verdict, wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic insists that ‘no reasonable court’ would convict him of genocide and war crimes, despite the evidence...
Karadzic Remains a Hero in Montenegrin Home Village
For his relatives in his home village of Petnjica in Montenegro, Radovan Karadzic is not a war criminal but a local boy who made good and strived to protect the...
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...
Karadzic in Hiding: Manhunt for Europe’s Most Wanted
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic evaded capture for over a decade because international forces and the Serbian authorities were unwilling and then unable to arrest him, says British author Julian...
Vojislav Seselj Allowed to Miss Trial Verdict
The UN court in The Hague said Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj does not have to be present for his war crimes verdict this month, despite its previous demand...
Karadzic’s Courtroom Drama Will End in Disappointment
Next week’s verdict in the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic will be a judicial landmark but cannot heal the lasting divisions of wartime.
Ratko Mladic Witness Problems Delay Defence Case
Problems with getting witnesses to court have reduced the amount of time that former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic’s defence has to prepare its closing statements at the Hague...
Former Chief UN Military Observer: Not Determined Who Fired at Markale Market
Testifying at the Ratko Mladic trial, defense witness Per Oien confirmed that an investigation undertaken by UN military observers couldn’t determine who fired a grenade that killed and wounded several...
Referral of Stanisic and Simatovic Case to Serbia Requested
The Hague prosecution has expressed readiness to begin the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko “Frenki” Simatovic in October 2015. The attorneys of the defendants said it wouldn’t be possible...