Bosnia prosecutor to re arrest war criminals

Bosnia prosecutor to re arrest war criminals: Bosnia's prosecutor seeks to re-arrest 10 convicted of genocide and war crimes.

Remembrance Day, 18 years later….

What were YOU doing 18 years ago?  Some of you weren't even born, or toilet trained.  The countries of the ex-Yugoslavia were signing a peace deal designed to end the fighting in Bosnia and stabilize the region.  How's that working out for everyone?

Anniversary of Bosnian Peace Deal--From B92 News

Ding, Dong, Mrs. Yugoslavia is Dead--Yeah?

Tito's widow has died, so now Yugoslavia is "truly" and "finally" dead, or is it?

There is no "gay" in Serbia, Year 3

Personally, I think this whole "ban the gay pride parade" routine is getting a bit cliche'.

We call this 'irony' in the sense of irony....

Possible Milosevic/Kostunica-led political parties coalition....

Have we learned nothing?

I have been sadly remiss of late in posting news and developments, an unforgivable lapse given the current state of EU negotiations and the Kosovo situation.  I have been tweeting links to articles on my @robearin account, and I will start also posting again here.  Just because things change does not mean they go away.  Eternal vigilance is the price of the exchange of free thought.

Kosovo Albanians Protest in Capital

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PRISTINA, Kosovo January 26, 2013 (AP)

Ethnic Albanians are protesting in Kosovo's capital to show support for their ethnic kin in Serbia's tense southern sector.

The protesters chanted anti-Serbian slogans Saturday in the main square of Pristina, blaming Kosovo's government for not standing up for ethnic Albanians in the neighboring country.

Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority, used to be a province of Serbia until it declared independence in 2008, a move that Serbia still rejects.

Serbian authorities removed a monument erected in the town of Presevo to commemorate ethnic Albanians killed during the 2000 uprising against Serbia, a move that has prompted local outrage.

Serbia considers the fighters terrorists but the uprising ended with more civil rights for ethnic Albanians in southern Serbia.

Karadzic to defend himself, mirroring Milosevic

by David Vujanovic2 hours, 32 minutes ago

Captured Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic is to defend himself before the UN war crimes court, his lawyer said Wednesday, raising memories of the trial of his late ally, Slobodan Milosevic.

Karadzic, who stands indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity, was arrested in Belgrade on Monday, having evaded capture for more than a decade partly thanks to a fake identity as an alternative health guru.

The Bosnian Serb political leader during the 1990s Bosnian war was a close ally of then Yugoslav president Milosevic, who was also indicted for war crimes and had chosen to defend himself before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Milosevic's manipulation of the role was blamed for making his trial one of the longest in international legal history at more than four years. The Serbian strongman died in custody in The Hague in 2006 before a verdict was delivered.

"Karadzic will have a legal team in Serbia that will help him with his defence but he will defend himself" at the ICTY, his lawyer Svetozar Vujacic said.

Vujacic had said on Tuesday that he would file an appeal against Karadzic being sent to the court, in a bid to postpone the transfer for as long as possible.

"I will lodge the complaint on the last day of the deadline, on Friday. I do not think it will be adopted, but I will disrupt their plans to transfer him," Vujacic said, estimating Karadzic might not be transferred "before the end of next week."

Under Serbia's law on cooperation with the ICTY, suspects can appeal their transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal before a special committee approves the move.

The process could take up to nine days, but Serbia's war crimes prosecution has said it expects Karadzic to be sent to the UN court by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080723/ts_afp/warcrimesictyserbiabosnia

And then, there's this.....

Bush Reaffirms Support for Kosovo
By Paula Wolfson White House 21 July 2008

President Bush has met with Kosovo's leaders for the first time since the former Serbian province declared its independence in February. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush conferred at the White House with both President Fatmir Seijdu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

From left: Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, President Fatmir Seijdu and President Bush at the White House, 21 Jul 2008

President Bush says he backs an independent Kosovo, and says he told the Kosovar leaders he wants other countries to do the same.

"I pledged that the United States will continue to work with those nations that have not recognized an independent Kosovo in order to convince them to do so as quickly as possible," said President Bush.

More than 40 countries, including the United States and key members of the European Union, have recognized Kosovo's independence. But Serbia is bitterly opposed. And Russia, which has allied itself with Belgrade on this matter, has used its veto power to block formal acceptance of the new state by the U.N. Security Council.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-21-voa50.cfm

The big news....

Top war crimes suspect Karadzic arrested in Serbia

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested on Monday evening in a sweep by Serbian security forces, the country's president and the U.N. tribunal said.

Karadzic is suspected of masterminding mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history." The killings include the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst slaughter since World War II.

"I was informed by our colleagues in Belgrade about the successful operation which resulted in the arrest of Radovan Karadzic," the tribunal's head prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, said.

He was indicted on genocide charges in 1995 by the tribunal, and topped the its most-wanted list for more than a decade, allegedly resorting to elaborate disguises to elude authorities.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_re_eu/serbia_karadzic

The situation is not getting any better....the nationalists could really profit from this election.

News | 14.03.2008 | 14:00 UTC

Serbia calls snap vote over EU, Kosovo dispute

Serbian President Boris Tadic has dissolved parliament and called early elections for May 11. The parliament's dismissal was requested by nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's government, which said it was unable to overcome wrangling over Serbia's integration in the European Union and Kosovo independence. Kostunica announced Saturday that his Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) had failed to solve the dispute with its pro-European coalition partners from Tadic's Democratic Party (DS). Angered by most EU countries' decision to recognise Kosovo's independence, Kostunica, backed by the opposition ultra-nationalist Radical Party (SRS), vowed to stop Serbia's EU integration unless the bloc acknowledged Kosovo as a part of Serbia.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,,12215_cid_3192491,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf