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Serbian war crimes court sentences Serbs to 20 years for 1992 Muslim killings
A Serbian war crimes court Friday convicted and sentenced four former members of the Avengers parliamentary group to prison terms of fifteen to twenty years for their involvement in the 1992 abduction and murder of 16 Muslim men and women. Some con (More) |
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Former Yugoslav general denies Srebrenica massacre in Milosevic trial testimony
A former Yugoslav army general testifying Monday on behalf of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic denied that the former leader and Bosnian Serb forces were responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and suggested it did not even take (More) |
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Srebrenica survivors mark 10th anniversary of killings; suspects still at large
Relatives and survivors of the Srebrenica massacre mourned as more than six hundred coffins containing newly-identified remains recovered from mass graves were interred in the town cemetary Monday, the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the 1995 (More) |
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NATO arrests son of Bosnian war crimes fugitive
A spokesman for NATO said Thursday that multinational stabilization forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina had arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, son of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who is sought for genocide charges in the July 1995 massacre of 8 (More) |
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War crimes trial of ex-Kosovo PM to start January 2007
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] announced Tuesday that the trial of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] will begin in January 2 (More) |
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Former Bosnian Serb police chief released after sentence commuted
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced Wednesday that it has ordered the release of former Bosnian Serb police chief Stevan Todorovic after only two-thirds of his ten year sentence had been served. Todorovic had b (More) |
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Suspected war criminal Mladic to turn himself in for $5M
Former Bosnia Serb General Ratko Mladic , who has been indicted for war crimes, has agreed to turn himself over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , in exchange for $5 million for his family and associates, according t (More) |
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Dutch UN commander claims troops didn't know Serb intent in Srebrenica
The commander of Dutch UN troops in Srebrenica in 1995 told a preliminary hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Thursday that he did not know Serbian forces had begun killing Muslim men and boys until it was too (More) |
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Serbian PM denies negotiating surrender with wanted war criminal
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica denied earlier reports Thursday that his government was negotiating a surrender with war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic . Two Serbian newspapers and a rights activist claimed that the government was contactin (More) |
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Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes sentenced to six years
The Sarajevo cantonal court in Bosnia-Herzegovina sentenced Serb Goran Vasic to six years in prison on Wednesday for his role in the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners at a detention camp near Sarajevo in 1992. Vasic was acquitted of an assa (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
