Friday, July 14, 2006

The NYT is back at it again...nothing on Kostunica's visit to US this week to talk about Kosovo, but plenty about the new trials....

July 14, 2006
7 Serbs Go on Trial Before War Crime Tribunal
By MARLISE SIMONS
PARIS, July 14 — They lined up in the courtroom dock this morning, seven men, once officers in the Bosnian Serb forces, now having to account for their presence at Srebrenica, a place of cold-blooded killing in July 1995. Taking their seats behind a phalanx of defense lawyers, they were flanked by an array of United Nations guards. On the dais, a panel of four international judges faced a courtroom that had never been this packed. For the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, it is the largest group trial in its history.
Five of the accused are facing charges of genocide, the highest crime. The trial will probe their role during Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Srebrenica was a United Nations safe haven in Bosnia, but nearly 8,000 unarmed men and boys were systematically executed there. So far, almost 60 mass graves have been found in the area.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/world/europe/14cnd-hague.html

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