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Yasushi Akashi wrote to Bosnian Serb leader after Bosniaks driven out of Bijeljina.   By Rachel Irwin The chief United Nations envoy for the former Yugoslavia during the Bosnian war testified this week at the Hague tribunal about his numerous meetings with wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic. Japanese diplomat Yasushi Akashi was appointed special […]

Two recent appeals hearings ended with senior figures from Serbia and Croatia being fully exonerated. Worryingly, their acquittals were hailed at home as vindication of their respective sides’ wartime actions.   By Rachel Irwin When appeals judges at the Hague tribunal quashed the conviction of Momcilo Perisic for crimes committed during the 1990s war in […]

In Bosnia and Croatia, dismay at decision that seems to scrub the Yugoslav military’s role in regional conflict.   By Ognjen Zorić, Dženana Karabegović Last week’s acquittal of former Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic at an appeal hearing in The Hague has been welcomed in Serbia, where it is seen as a vindication of the […]

  By David Nelson Painstaking task of identifying remains of war victims and matching them to living relatives. The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The skeletal […]

Dr. Alfred De Zayas, a UN Human Rights Council member, is unfortunately under attack from a campaign to remove him from his United Nations position. Knowledgeable people opposed to racism should take action to keep this renown legal and historical scholar and human rights activist as a UN Human Rights Council member. The campaign against […]

Defendant claims late disclosure of evidence has compromised proceedings.   By Rachel Irwin  Wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic requested a new trial at the Hague tribunal on August 13, claiming that the prosecution had committed “numerous” violations of the rules of disclosure, thus rendering the current proceedings unfair. Since his trial began in October […]