Word: bosnian
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...made the capture of war fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic a precondition to even starting membership negotiations. The two men are believed to be hiding in the Serbian mountains under the tacit protection of key politicians. The Netherlands is particularly keen to see the arrest of Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on genocide charges for his alleged role in the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbia handed over former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Hague last year, and Tadic has said...
Highlights also included performances by the Black Men’s Forum—or, as emcee Tyler G. Hall ’11 accidentally termed them, the “Bosnian Men’s Forum”—and the cheerleading squad...
Foes of Radovan Karadzic must wait a little longer to see him in court. The former Bosnian Serb leader, who eluded capture for 12 years until his arrest in 2008, boycotted the start of his U.N. trial on genocide and war-crimes charges, claiming he needed more time to prepare his defense. Prosecutors allege that Karadzic, who is representing himself, carried out ethnic-cleansing campaigns in the 1990s in Bosnia. The judge has rejected Karadzic's protests and ordered that the trial continue...
...Karadzic's requests was for a re-examination of DNA samples and autopsy results from every body excavated from the mass graves in Srebrenica in an attempt to prove that the number of victims was grossly exaggerated and that many of the victims were not even Bosnian Muslims. "Everything in relation to Srebrenica that has been presented so far is erroneous ... Everything is contentious and everything needs to be established fact by fact," Karadzic said at the pretrial hearing in July. (Read "Karadzic Called to Reckoning...
...Such statements no doubt rub salt in the wounds of the relatives of victims, who have waited years for justice. Outside the court on Tuesday, several head-scarfed Bosnian women assembled on the lawn and declared that they would not leave before they saw Karadzic in the dock. Some said they would even go on a hunger strike. But after a short while, they all turned and slowly headed toward their...