Posts Tagged ‘Radovan Karadzic’

September19

Dutch Veto EU – Serbia Trade Accord

By: Tim Neale

EU member states again fail to reach consensus on external relations.

A meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, Sep. 15, failed to agree to unblock a trade accord with Serbia. Twenty-five EU member states and the EU Commission were in favor of immediately implementing the deal. However, The Netherlands vetoed the accord. Insisting Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief, be first delivered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

Mladic and Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic are charged with, among other things, genocide relating to events in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. This is a sensitive issue for The Dutch. Dutch UN peacekeepers that were present in the town at the time. Karadzic was arrested in the Serbian capital Belgrade in July but Mladic is still at large.

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August2

Karadzic Trial Begins

By: Tim Neale

After nearly 13 years on the run, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made his first appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

On Thursday, Karadzic was read the 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide, with which he is charged. He notified the court that he intends to represent himself, and declined to enter a plea. He has 30 day to do so. Judge Alphons Orie adjourned the case until Aug. 29.

Karadzic was arrested last week in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, shortly after a pro-European Union Serbian government was sworn in. The Serbian Foreign Minister, Vuk Jeremic, said this week that extraditing war crime suspects is Serbia’s legal and moral obligation.

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July23

'Europe's Bin Laden' Arrested

By: Tim Neale

Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade. The former Bosnian Serb leader has been indicted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Karadzic has been on the run for nearly 13 years, along with the Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic. They face charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws of war, relating to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina between April 1992 and July 1995.

Serge Brammertz, head prosecutor for the ICTY, said, “This is a very important day for the victims who have waited for this arrest for over a decade.”

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