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Genocide Accountability Act will aid US prosecutors
Diane Orentlicher [Special Counsel, Open Society Institute; professor, Washington College of Law, American University]: "The history of U.S. efforts to punish genocide is full of paradoxes. The United States led postwar efforts to prosecute Nazi (More) |
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Serbia war crimes prosecutor says Mladic hiding in Serbia
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladmir Vukcevic said Wednesday that fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] is in Serbia, and that authorities are closing in on him. Vukevic's comments are the first acknowledg (More) |
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Bush signs bill allowing non-citizens in US to be charged for genocide abroad
US President George W. Bush Friday signed into law a bill that will allow the federal government to prosecute individuals in the US suspected of genocide abroad. The Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 modifies Section 1091, Title 18 USC , which h (More) |
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Dutch court allows Srebrenica lawsuit against UN, Netherlands to proceed
A court in the Netherlands ruled Tuesday that the families of approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims who were killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news archive] can proceed with their class action lawsuit [JURIST report; case ba (More) |
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Serbia arrests four ex-paramilitary members suspected of Kosovo war crimes
Serbian police arrested four members of the Scorpions paramilitary group suspected of crimes committed in Kosovo during Serbia's 1998-1999 war with ethnic Albanian separatists, the Serbian Interior Ministry announced Friday. Several members of (More) |
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US and allies impeded efforts to capture war crimes fugitive: ex-ICTY official
The United States and other western countries repeatedly impeded efforts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to arrest Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], accordi (More) |
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Bosnia war crimes court enters not guilty plea for Bosnian Serb defendant on hunger strike
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website; JURIST news archive] entered a plea of not guilty for Bosnian Serb Milrod Trbic Thursday because Trbic failed to appear in court after starting a hunger strike on Mon (More) |
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ICTY prosecutor urges capture of war crimes fugitives on indictment anniversary
Carla Del Ponte , the top prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , called on Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to renew efforts to capture war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karad (More) |
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ICTY enters not guilty plea for accused Bosnian Serb war criminal
Judges for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] entered pleas of not guilty on behalf of Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir Tuesday, after Tolimir refused to ente (More) |
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Montenegro arrests UN-indicted war crimes suspect
Montenegro authorities Sunday arrested Vlastimir Djordjevic , a former Serbian police general, for the murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. According to Djordjevic's indictment, he and six other high-ranking Serb offici (More) |
US House voted to impeach President Clinton
On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Read the Articles of Impeachment.
