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EX-BOSNIAK POLITICIAN SPEAKS OF 1992 PRIJEDOR
TAKEOVER
Prosecution witness recalls attempts to negotiate with Serbs after
they seized power.
By Velma Saric - International Justice - ICTY, TRI Issue 670, 19 Nov
2010
An ex-Bosniak politician from Prijedor testified this week about the
1992 takeover of power in the municipality by the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS. Mevludin
Sejmenovic, a former chairman of the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, in the
Prijedor municipality, was giving evidence in the trial of former senior police officials
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SIR GEOFFREY NICE, THE VICTIMS OF
SREBRENICA - LIVING AND DEAD - DESERVE THE TRUTH
Interview by Nihad Krupic, author, freelance writer and publisher
March 30, 2010, Vancouver, Canada
www.kbsa2000kbs.org
The only plausible explanation I have is that prosecuting Milosevic I
found myself in the unique position of investigating and collecting evidence on all major
crimes committed by the Serbian armed forces under Milosevic's leadership. This meant that
I had access to facts and evidence about the criminality of plans hatched in Belgrade. And
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SREBRENICA SURVIVOR GIVES GLIMPSE OF ENCLAVE'S
DEFENCES
Details emerge from Tolimir's two-day cross examination of a
witness who survived a mass execution.
By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 640, 26-Mar-10)
Former Bosnian Serb general Zdravko Tolimir, on trial for war crimes at
the Hague tribunal, this week questioned a witness who survived the 1995 Srebrenica
massacre about his role in the defence of the enclave and the exodus of people after it
fell. The witness, Mevludin Oric, was part of a large column of people who fled Srebrenica
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MARKAC WITNESS DENIES CROAT FORCES LOOTED
Defendant's deputy says he does not believe special police
destroyed homes in Gracac.
By Julia Hawes
(TU No. 640, 26-Mar-10)
A witness in the Hague tribunal trial of Mladen Markac, former
commander of the Croatian special police forces, denied this week that they took part in
looting and burning of the village of Gracac after Operation Storm, an offensive aimed at
retaking the Serb-held Krajina region in August 1995. Zeljko Sacic...
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COURT TOLD YUGOSLAV OFFICERS WANTED TO FIGHT
FOR BOSNIAN SERBS
Witness said some contacted the Bosnian Serbs about joining them
but didn't know how.
By Velma Saric in Sarajevo (TU No. 640, 25-Mar-10)
A defence witness at the Hague tribunal trial of former Yugoslav army,
VJ, chief Momcilo Perisic this week said that certain VJ officers originally from Bosnia
asked to serve with the Bosnian Serb army, VRS. Perisic, former chief of general staff of
the VJ, has pleaded not guilty at...
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COURT HEARS VJ NOT FORCED TO FIGHT IN BOSNIA
Witness says Yugoslav troops could opt out of Sarajevo battle.
By Velma Saric in Sarajevo (TU No. 639, 19-Mar-10)
A defence witness told the Hague tribunal trial of former Yugoslav
army, VJ, chief Momcilo Perisic this week that members of the 72 Special Brigade were free
to decide whether to take part in fighting on the frontlines around Sarajevo in December
1993. Zlatko Danilovic, a former member of the 72 Special Brigade of the VJ, was...
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GUILTY PLEA IN LUKIC CONTEMPT CASE
Witness gets three-month sentence after plea agreement.
By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 639, 18-Mar-10)
A Bosniak man pleaded guilty to contempt this week after admitting that
he accepted money in exchange for signing a false statement in the trial of Bosnian Serb
cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic. Judges at the Hague tribunal sentenced the man, Zuhdija
Tabakovic, to three months in prison with credit for time served. He is expected to be
released...
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SERBIA AND THE ICTY
An analysis of EU conditionality
by Mathias Dobbels
Statutory Declaration
I hereby declare that this thesis has been written by myself without any external
unauthorised help, that it has been neither presented to any institution for evaluation
nor previously published in its entirety or in parts. Any parts, words or ideas, of the
thesis, however limited, and including tables, graphs, maps etc., which are quoted from or
based on other sources, have been acknowledged as...
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DESTRUCTIVE SECRETS AND DESTRUCTIVE
CONSEQUENCES: CARLA DEL PONTE AND THE WORLD COURT DECISION
Keith Doubt
The recent decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to not
hold Serbia directly responsible and accountable for the genocide that occurred in
Bosnia-Herzegovina is troubling and disappointing. The decision strengthens the cynical
perception of the international community obstructing Bosnia-Herzegovina's need for
justice to rebuild a stable and unified society. In...
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LOCAL WAR-CRIME TRIALS MAY AID
RECONCILIATION
Author: Geoffrey Nice - BIRN interview
Uploaded: Thursday, 18 September, 2008
In a wide-ranging interview carried out by the Balkan Investigative
Reporting Network [BIRN] in Sarajevo, the ICTY prosecutor of Slobodan Milosevic applauds
Bosnia's new war crimes court, compares the Milosevic and Karadzic cases and is mystified
by the indictment of Florence Hartmann. Nidzara Ahmetasevic for BIRN Recently you visited
Sarajevo and visited the...
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JUSTICE v. POLITICS
Louise Arbour
18 September, 2008
The former chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal, later UN
commissioner for human rights, argues for the importance of a system of international
justice overriding short-term political calculations. When I announced the
indictment of Slobodan Milosevic on 27 May 1999, at the height of the armed conflict
between Serbia and NATO troops in Kosovo, many were dismayed. The conventional wisdom at
the time was that... More
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BRIEFLY NOTED: BRAMMERTZ SLAMS SERBIAN TRIBUNAL COOPERATION
Chief prosecutor said there has been no notable progress in
delivering remaining suspects to Hague.
By Simon Jennings in The Hague
Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz criticised Serbian
cooperation with the court in a report to the United Nations Security Council this week.
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THERE WAS PRESSURE ON OUR WORK
Interview w/ Geoffrey Nice, Former ICTY Prosecutor
NIN, 15 May 2008
The name of Geoffrey Nice is synonymous with the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic. After the main actor of the most important trial died, the prosecutor Nice is
again barrister Nice. Last year he became Sir Geoffrey Nice, a title that is the highest
state decoration in Great Britain and that is not hereditary, and granted to him for his
meritorious service in the prosecution of persons...
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WHY PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVE WHAT 'EVERYBODY KNOWS' - PART
THREE
OBVIOUS NEED NOT BE TRUE
The Hague, 09.04.2008.
Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, three former KLA
commanders, were charged with dozens of murder. The prosecution called the most evidence
and most witnesses to prove the murder of a Kosovo Albanian woman, Sanije Balaj. A total
of thirteen witnesses took the stand to testify about her murder. This... More >>> |
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WHY DID PROSECUTION FAIL TO PROVE WHAT 'EVERYBODY KNOWS' - PART
TWO
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'PROBABILITY' AND EVIDENCE 'BEYOND REASONABLE
DOUBT'
The Hague, 08.04.2008.
The failure of the prosecution to prove who killed 30 Albanians, Serbs
and Roma whose bodies were found in September 1998 in the Radonjic Lake canal is one of
the reasons why the Trial Chamber acquitted former KLA commanders Ramush
Haradinaj... More >>> |
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WHY DID PROSECUTION FAIL TO PROVE WHAT 'EVERYBODY KNOWS'
The Hague, 07.04.2008.
Insistence on the fact that the trial went on in an atmosphere of fear
and on substantial problems both the Trial Chamber and the prosecution faced in dealing
with witnesses who didn't feel safe despite the protection measures sounded almost as an
excuse for the judgment delivered to Haradinaj, Balaj and Brahimaj. Haradinaj and Balaj
were acquitted and Brahimaj was... More >>> |
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WELCOME TO IWPR'S TRIBUNAL
UPDATE No. 545
April 4, 2008
SERBIAN ANGER AT HARADINAJ ACQUITTAL Not-guilty verdict in case against
former Kosovo premier provokes storm in Serbia. By Merdijana Sadovic in Sarajevo and
Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade. COMMENT: ICTY ARCHIVE MUST BE OPEN TO ALL Political leaders
should seek full and open access to tribunal archive rather than debate its final resting
place. By Robert...
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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
Fourteenth annual report of the International Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian
Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
02/4/2008, HCHRS
The fourteenth annual report of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia covers the period from 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007...
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