Karadzic to boycott Bosnia genocide trial, court says
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he intends to boycott the start of his War Crimes and Genocide trial next week, a spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Thursday.

A genocide trial for Karadzic, and gangzter memories of Belgrade: PHOTO
Ex-Bosnian Serb Leader, Facing War-Crimes Charges, Appears to Steal a Page From Milosevic’s Courtroom Playbook. By MARC CHAMPION Brussels — The trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on War-crimes charges begins Monday, and lawyers say his courtroom strategy is already emerging. Like the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, Mr. Karadzic looks set to try to string the proceedings out and turn them into an inquest into the role of the West in the War, these lawyers...

Radovan Karazic war crimes trial an open-and-shut case
Karadzic, who is representing himself at the trial, says he needs eight more months to prepare for the case and will not appear in court until he is ready. Judge O-Gon Kwon said that he would resume proceedings on Tuesday with opening statements from the prosecution and that the court would appoint a lawyer to represent Karadzic if he continued to fail to appear. Should Kwon assign counsel for Karadzic, the trial would be delayed further while the attorney familiarizes himself with the case....

Judges told to get tough in trial of war crimes with 7,000 victims
More than 13 years after the slaughter of 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, one of the late-20th century’s worst alleged War criminals finally faces justice today. For relatives of the victims and other survivors of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, the start of Radovan Karadzic’s Genocide trial is crucial to putting memories of the horrors to rest. Judges at The Hague are being urged to get tough with the former Bosnian Serb leader, who is planning to boycott today’s...

Israel rules out questioning troops over war crimes claims
The Israeli government has ruled out setting up an independent investigative body that would interview Israeli Military personnel about allegations that the Military committed War Crimes during its offensive against Hamas earlier this year.

Scahill: Setback for Iraqis' suit against Blackwater actually a victory
Five War Crimes suits filed by Iraqis against the private security firm Blackwater will be allowed to continue after lawyers for the mercenary group petitioned to have them dismissed. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled on Wednesday that the suits would be dismissed, but he is allowing the plaintiffs to refile on the condition that they make specific claims and present evidence that Blackwater -- now known as Xe -- perpetuated a "culture of lawlessness" that led to indiscriminate murder...

BNP: British generals should be hanged for war crimes
Some of Britain’s most respected Military commanders have been drawn into an extraordinary public row with the British National Party after the party's leader compared them to Nazi generals hanged for War Crimes.

Accused war criminal turns himself in
ACCUSED 88-year-old Nazi War criminal Charles Zentai is at the mercy of the Federal Government after turning himself in to police to spend his first night behind bars. Zentai was taken to Perth's Hakea Prison after exhausting appeal avenues that had kept him out of jail ahead of his possible Extradition to Hungary on War Crimes charges. He had been granted a 14-day stay on a ruling by the full bench of the Federal Court that allowed his Extradition on a charge of killing a Jewish teenager in...

Karadzic & War Crimes Trial
Karadzic & War Crimes Trial

Karadzic genocide trial to begin
The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is due to begin at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Mr Karadzic denies 11 charges of Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other atrocities relating to the Bosnian War of the 1990s.

War crimes prosecutors begin trial without Karadzic: PHOTO
Radovan Karadzic faces charges of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity during the War in Bosnia. Photograph: Valerie Kuypers/AP

Q&A: The trial of Radovan Karadzic: PHOTO
After Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic's failure to appear at the start of his trial on Genocide and War Crimes charges CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson explains what happens next.

War Crimes: Nazi Assassin Goes on Trial in Germany: PHOTO
Heinrich Boere, 88, a former member of Hitler's SS, goes on trial in a German court on Wednesday charged with murdering three Dutch citizens during World War II. It will be one of the last Nazi War Crimes prosecutions, along with next month's trial of John Demjanjuk. Nazi hunter Ulrich Maass is a satisfied man. The assassin he has been chasing for years is going to stand trial at last. In the western German city of Aachen on Wednesday, Maass, a German state prosecutor from the city of Dortmund,...

Prosecution opens case against Karadzic: PHOTO
The Hague, Oct 27 (Reuters)

Karadzic 'led ethnic cleansing': PHOTO
Prosecutors at the Genocide and War Crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic have branded him the leader of an ethnic cleansing campaign. The court ruled the trial in The Hague could resume despite Mr Karadzic boycotting it for a second day.

Expert: Yugoslav war crimes victims need 'truth commission': PHOTO
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has successfully brought dozens of War criminals to justice, but a "truth commission" is still necessary if the region's ethnic factions are ever to achieve lasting reconciliation, according to a former legal adviser to the court.

Karadzic boycotts opening of his war crimes trial
The Hague, Netherlands (AP) - Radovan Karadzic boycotted the opening day of his War Crimes trial Monday and sent no lawyer to defend himself, forcing judges to abruptly adjourn the hearing. Judges then vowed that the former Bosnian Serb leader's trial would begin Tuesday with or without him. The decision enraged survivors who had traveled by bus from Bosnia to see Karadzic finally face justice. A small group briefly refused to leave the courtroom after the adjournment and one woman threatened a...

Karadzic & War Crimes Trial: Disguised As 'Healer' PHOTO
With his mane of white hair, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was the face of the Bosnian Serb republic as thousands were killed in the violent break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He was arrested on a bus in Belgrade in July last year after 11 years on the run, disguised as a new age healer with a flowing beard, and transferred to a U.N. detention unit in The Hague to face charges of Genocide in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. He emerged later that month shorn of the hair and visibly...

Middle East peace plan threatened after UN passes Gaza war crimes report: PHOTO
The UN Human Rights Council has voted to endorse a Gaza War Crimes report despite Israel's threats to pull out of the Middle East peace talks in retaliation.

UN's Human Rights Council Endorses Gaza War Report & Condemns Israel
Today the United Nations Human Rights Council strongly condemned a host of Israeli measures in the occupied Palestinian territory and called on both sides to implement the recommendations of a UN commission that found that Israel and Hamas committed serious War Crimes in the 3 weeks Gaza War 9 months ago. The commission, led by Justice Goldstone, recommended that the Security Council require Israel and the Palestinian authorities in Gaza to launch appropriate independent probes into the alleged...

UN rights panel endorses Gaza war crimes report
Jerusalem – The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a controversial report on alleged Israeli and Hamas War Crimes , advancing a process that Israeli leaders have said could derail the U.S.-sponsored peace process. The council, led by a coalition of Arab states, voted 25-6 to approve the report on the three-week War between Israel and Gaza-based militants led by the Hamas movement. China and Russia also supported the resolution, which calls on the United Nations to refer Israel...

U.N. Human Rights Council Endorses Report on Gaza War
Jerusalem, Oct. 16 -- The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a controversial report on alleged Israeli War Crimes in the Gaza Strip, advancing a process that has roiled Palestinian politics and threatens to further derail the Middle East peace process.

Goldstone dares US on Gaza report
Richard Goldstone, the jurist who authored a UN report accusing Israel of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity during its War on Gaza, has challenged the US to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased.   Goldstone told Al Jazeera on Thursday that he had not heard from the administration of Barack Obama, the US president, about the flaws Washington claims to have identified in the report.

AFP: Sri Lanka to probe US war crimes allegations
COLOMBO — The Sri Lankan government on Monday said it would investigate War Crimes allegations made against its troops in a US State Department report. Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said President Mahinda Rajapakse would shortly name a committee to look into incidents listed in the report that was submitted to the US Congress last week. "The president decided that he will appoint a committee to probe the contents of the report," the minister told reporters here. "After that,...

Abbas Reiterates Demands, Seems to Demur on New Peace Talks
Jerusalem, Oct. 11 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday seemed to distance himself from U.S. efforts to restart peace talks and defended his recent handling of a report on War Crimes in the Gaza Strip in a defiant televised address meant to boost his political standing amid...