Politics or Justice?: Differentiating Between the Nuremberg Trials and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Hague - Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb war- time leader, has filed a motion challenging the legitimacy of the international war crimes tribunal trying him for war crimes, according to details released Monday. The former psychiatrist cl...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
1 of 1THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, on trial over 11 counts of war crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war when 100,000 people were killed, said the court lacked the "legal validity and legitimacy" to try him.Karadzic boycotted the start of his trial last month, forcing the tribunal's judges to appoint legal counsel against his will and adjourn until March...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has defended the judicial process and principles of law over the threat by the umbrella body of genocide survivors in Rwanda (IBUKA) to halt co-operation with the UN Tribunal following last week's two acquittals of 1994 genocide suspects.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Going by the current record of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda it is not a stretch to imagine that this court would acquit Herman Goering or any other person like that of crimes of genocide and other atrocities against Jews were it (ICTR) to find itself with the responsibility of trying big Nazis.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Rwandan prisoner last Wednesday claimed officials from the Rwandan government and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) pressured him in vain to give false evidence.
JURIST (Free subscription) | yesterday
[JURIST] Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has filed a motion made public Monday, challenging the legitimacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Karadzic claims that the UN Security Council overstepped its powers when it created the court in 1993: All over the world, the establishment of regular courts is only partially a constitutional...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has reiterated that it has intensified its efforts to arrest remaining ICTR indicted fugitives with the help of the transnational police organization, Interpol.
Ellen Tordesillas (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... Leila M. De Lima, British forensic investigator Chris Cobb Smith and lawyers from the Center for International Law (Centerlaw). Baraybar said the “topography of the crime” in Ampatuan town is eerily similar to that he had found as a United Nations expert serving in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Barren hills, marked in places by an occasional clump of...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Other World Stories » Court lacks legitimacy to try him, says KaradzicTHE HAGUE – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, on trial over 11 counts of war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war when 100,000 people were killed, said the court lacked the “legal validity and legitimacy” to try him.Karadzic boycotted the start of his trial last month, forcing the tribunal’s judges to appoint...
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (a Democrat from Minnesota) commends a report by Richard Goldstone on Israeli actions in Lebanon . The article is dated 11/3/09. Who is afraid of Richard Goldstone? No one should be. Not even the U.S. Congress — yet it is poised on Tuesday to condemn the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Goldstone report on violations of international law related...
A Passion to Understand (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... the Genocide Convention Did you know that since the creation of the Genocide Convention in 1948, international tribunals have determined only two cases to constitute genocide? Rwandan Genocide : This refers to the genocide that took place in Rwanda in April 1994. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is currently prosecuting cases in connection...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Republika Srpska: After Independence| 19 November 2009 | By Matthew Parish Bosnia’s gradual disintegration would appear inevitable. The only question is how the international community will, and should, react to this process.A new state – “Republika Srpska” - is shortly to be born in South Eastern Europe, the eighth to emerge from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The delivery...
European Union Law (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A new resolution by the European Parliament contains important guidance for candidate countries and potential candidates. Among the criteria that all Balkan countries should respect, MEPs emphasize the need for full co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and an improvement of the situation of ethnic minorities, in particular the Roma....
Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
11/24/09: Opinio Juris reports that the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s request for certification to appeal the Tribunal’s recent appointment of stand-by...
Euractive (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A leading MEP, the European Parliament's rapporteur on Croatia, warned that the country must convince the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that it is not keeping any "skeletons in the closet" from the recent Balkan fratricide wars.
