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Ratko Mladic opens defense at UN genocide trial
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] began his defense case before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday with testimony of Mile Sladoje, a former Serb army officer w (More) |
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Rwanda Marks the 1994 Genocide: Is Never Again Possible?
JURIST Guest Columnist Fred K. Nkusi of the Independent Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali and Mount Kenya University in Rwanda argues that the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide is a period of mourning for those lost as well as remembr (More) |
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ICTY upholds genocide charges against Ratko Mladic for 1995 Srebrenica massacre
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia determined during a session on Tuesday that sufficient evidence exists to uphold charges on two counts of genocide against Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general, for his allege (More) |
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Dutch government to compensate families of Srebrenica victims
The Dutch government on Thursday announced plans to compensate relatives of three men killed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Each family will receive €20,000 euros (USD $27,734) as compensation for the deaths of their relatives. The dec (More) |
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Srebrenica massacre survivors open civil suit against Dutch government
A civil lawsuit against the Dutch government filed by mothers and widows of men killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news archive] opened in the Hague District Court on Monday. The Mothers of Srebrenica , a group representin (More) |
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UN SG urges international community to protect human rights
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged global leaders Tuesday to commit to ensuring the protection of human rights and an end to mass atrocities. The Secretary-General spoke positively of progress that has been made in holding perpetrators of geno (More) |
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Mladic refuses to testify at Karadzic ICTY trial
Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army during the Bosnian civil war, refused to testify on Tuesday at the trial of Radovan Karadzic , which is ongoing at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The ICT (More) |
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UN judges order Mladic to testify at Karadzic trial
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday granted a motion by Radovan Karadzic to subpoena Ratko Mladic, former leader of the Bosnian Serb army during the Bosnian civil war, to testify at his trial where (More) |
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Bosnia court rejects request to re-arrest Serbs convicted of war crimes
On Thursday the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) rejected a request by prosecutors to re-arrest nine individuals convicted of war crimes. The court ruled that since Bosnian law does not contain provisions for the re-arrest of someone already (More) |
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ICTY Provides Fair, Non-Political Trials
JURIST Guest Columnist Stuart Ford of The John Marshall Law School argues that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia provides for fair, non-political trials, which are central to the success of the court ... (More) |
Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans
On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.
