Le TPIY lance un mandat d'arrêt contre son ex-porte-parole pour amende impayée

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16.11.11
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Le Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY) a lancé, mercredi 16 novembre, un mandat d'arrêt contre Florence Hartmann, journaliste et ancienne porte-parole du procureur du TPIY. Condamnée à verser une amende de 7 000 euros pour avoir "délibérément et sciemment entravé le cours de la justice", la Française avait refusé de payer. La sanction a été "transformée en une peine de sept jours de prison", précise la chambre d'appel....more....
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http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/11/16/le-tpiy-lance-un-mandat-d-arret-contre-son-ex-porte-parole-pour-amende-impayee_1604750_3214.html

Ratko Mladic absent d'une audience devant le TPIY

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10.11.11
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L'ancien chef militaire des Serbes de Bosnie, Ratko Mladic, 69 ans, a annoncé jeudi 10 novembre qu'il n'assisterait pas à une audience prévue dans l'après-midi devant le Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY).

"Je ne suis pas en mesure d'assister aux procédures devant la cour ce jour en raison d'une maladie", a-t-il indiqué dans un document publié par le TPIY. "Je renonce à mon droit à être présent devant la cour ce jour et donne mon consentement à ce que la procédure continue en mon absence, mais en présence de mon avocat", a-t-il ajouté....more...
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http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2011/11/10/ratko-mladic-absent-d-une-audience-devant-le-tpiy_1602069_3214.html

Media War of Yugoslav Secession continues

ari rusila's balkan blog
November 6, 2011

”Who needs facts if a good story is available?” (Ari Rusila)

A few weeks ago I promoted new Srebrenica documentary film Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed . Everybody was not happy about critical view of documentary. E.g the Norwegian Helsinki Committee made official complaint to Norwegian Broadcasting Council and Press Complaints Commission. This is not surprising as media war in Bosnia started same time as war on the ground. While the whole artificial outside forced state creature without any own identity is now openly tottering the media again is the tool to improve political interests....more...
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http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/media-war-of-yugoslav-secession-continues/

“Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed” – Finally a Critical Documentary about Srebrenica Tragedy

ari rusila's balkans blog
“If you want to use a word “genocide” (for Srebrenica) – then OK, but we need a new word to replace the old “genocide” word…” (Noam Chomsky)

Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed a Norwegian documentary film directed by Ola Flyum and David Hebditch is now free to watch in Youtube. The film approaches Srebrenica tragedy from a bit different viewpoint than usual in Western mainstream media. Norwegian documentary about Srebrenica challenges generally accepted narratives about the 1995 massacre giving light to the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from non-biased point of view. It also connects Srebrenica into a wider context that is often ignored by the Western media, showing the crimes committed by the Bosnian army against Serbian civilians and villages in the area. These atrocities may also partly explain why some war crimes happened later in Srebrenica.....more...
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http://arirusila.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/srebrenica-a-town-betrayed-%E2%80%93-finally-a-critical-documentary-about-srebrenica-tragedy/

Ailing Ratko Mladic Misses Court Appearance

radio free europe
November 10, 2011
Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic says he is too ill to attend a war crimes court hearing at which he is scheduled to enter a plea to a fresh count of multiple killings.....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/sick_ratko_mladic_misses_court_appearance/24387062.html

Commander of UN forces 'aware Srebrenica massacre was about to happen'

telegraph
The Dutch commander of UN forces charged with protecting Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica was aware that the massacre was about to happen, an army surgeon who allegedly witnessed the killings has claimed in a new television documentary.

By Bruno Waterfield
5:41 PM GMT 08 Nov 2011
Col Thom Karremans has always denied that he knew that 8,000 Muslim men and boys he saw being taken away by Bosnian Serbs were going to be murdered....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/8877056/Commander-of-UN-forces-aware-Srebrenica-massacre-was-about-to-happen.html

Mladic’s Poor Health Is New Focus at The Hague

ny times
By MARLISE SIMONS

Published: November 5, 2011
THE HAGUE — Each time Ratko Mladic has come to court, he has complained about his health — his fatigue, his stroke-weakened right arm, his kidney pains — emphasizing his ailments as if they were the central focus of his trial on war crimes and genocide charges.
But as the extent of health problems of Mr. Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general, has become more apparent after five months in custody, court officials worry that they may well shape the case against him, their most high-profile defendant....more...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/world/europe/ratko-mladics-poor-health-is-new-focus-of-his-war-crimes-trial.html?ref=bosniaandherzegovina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIuUgrXgFY&feature=related

telegraph.co.uk
By Bruno Waterfield
 11:57 AM BST 11 Oct 2011
Ratko Mladic has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia, raising new concerns that the former Bosnian-Serb general will not live long enough to face trial for alleged genocide and war crimes.

 Gen. Mladic., 68, was admitted to an undisclosed hospital on Monday after weekend reports that he had collapsed in his cell in the Scheveningen prison where UN war crimes prisoners are held....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bosnia/8819812/Ratko-Mladic-in-hospital-with-pneumonia.html

What can Afghanistan and Bosnia teach us about Libya?

guardian.co.uk
Recently returned from Tripoli, Rory Stewart asks if the key to success is doing less, not more

Rory Stewart

The Guardian, Saturday 8 October 2011

I have spent most of my adult life working on, and in, interventions. I began as a junior diplomat with East Timor, served in the Balkans and in Iraq, then spent a few years in Afghanistan. But none of this made me feel I could predict the future of Libya as I entered Tripoli in August. There were echoes of Baghdad in the masked men holding on to truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns and shouting Allahu Akbar at an angry crowd outside the bank. Was this the prelude to a sudden flurry of looting, then, after a few months, sullen resentment, riots, roadside bombs and rockets falling into the foreign compounds? Would Libya, like the Iraq or Afghan interventions, eventually suck in billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and achieve little more than trauma, corruption and insecurity?...more...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/08/libya-intervention-rory-stewart

Limaj Lawyer Urges EULEX to Give Up

balkan insight
22 SEP 2011 / 09:21

Fatmir Limaj’s lawyer called on EU prosecutors to abandon charges against his client, saying they had yet to produce any proof of corruption on Limaj's behalf while he was minister for transport.

Fatmir Aliu

Tahir Rrecaj, the lawyer representing the vice-president of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK,and former transport minister, said Limaj was innocent and would be proven so....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/lawyers-ask-eulex-to-drop-case-against-limaj

Kosovo Court Ruling Heightens Arrest Risk for Limaj

balkan insight
21 SEP 2011 / 08:12

Constitutional court clarification that MPs do not enjoy immunity from prosecution removes an important bar preventing EU police from arresting former minister.

Fatmir Aliu Pristina

Fatmir Limaj’s chances of being arrested rose yesterday after Kosovo’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that parliamentarians are not immune from prosecution if sought by the law....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-court-ruling-heightens-arrest-risk-for-limaj

Key witness in Haradinaj trial sentenced

se times
19/09/2011

"By sentencing Shefqet Kabashi, The Hague has ... sent a clear message to all other witnesses," Kosovo analyst Ramadan Ilazi told SETimes.
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina -- 19/09/11
The UN war crimes tribunal sentenced Shefqet Kabashi, the main witness in the trial against former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and his associates, to two months in jail for contempt on Friday (September 16th)....more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/09/19/feature-03

Former Serb army chief Perisic sentenced to 27 years in jail

xinhua.net
English.news.cn 2011-09-07 00:11:19

THE HAGUE, Sep. 6 (Xinhua) -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday sentenced former Yugoslav Army chief Momsilo Perisic to 27 years imprisonment.
He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia....more...
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/07/c_131106624.htm

Serbian general Perisic jailed for 27 years at Hague

bbc news
6 September 2011 Last updated at 11:11 GMT Help

The UN tribunal at The Hague has convicted the most senior officer of the former Yugoslav Army to stand trial for war crimes....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14803476

UN court jails ex-Yugoslav army chief for 27 years

euronews
Balkans - Serbia - War crimes

06/09 16:24 CET

Momcilo Perisic, the ex-army chief of the former Yugoslavia, has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars for war crimes.

The UN tribunal in the Hague jailed him for aiding and abetting in murders, persecutions and attacks on civilians in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s....more...
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http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/06/un-court-jails-ex-yugoslav-army-chief-for-27-years/

Defense formally objects severance of Mladic trial

xinhua net
English.news.cn 2011-09-01 21:22:02

THE HAGUE, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic officially objected the plan to split his trial, confirmed the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) here on Thursday.
In a written response, Mladic's lawyer Branko Lukic described the motion as "unfair" and "improper."...more...
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/01/c_131092396.htm

Vukovar suspect Goran Hadzic pleads not guilty

bbc news
24 August 2011, Last updated at 13:53 GMT
Goran Hadzic, the last major war crimes suspect sought by The Hague, has pleaded not guilty to crimes at Vukovar during the Croatian conflict.

The former commander of Serb rebel forces during the 1991-95 war is charged with 14 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14652784

New war crimes trial for Kosovo ex-premier Haradinaj

bbc news
18 August 2011, Updated at 14:54 GMT
Former Kosovan Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj is back on trial at The Hague in its first-ever partial retrial for war crimes.

He is re-appearing before the UN War Crimes Tribunal after his 2008 acquittal was overturned on grounds of witness intimidation.

The ex-Kosovo Liberation Army fighter is being tried with two co-accused....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14571569

Ex-Kosovan PM faces war crimes retrial -video-

bbc news
18 August 2011 Last updated at 05:58 GMT Help

Former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, is facing retrial at The Hague for war crimes allegedly committed when he was a rebel commander....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14569374

Profile: Ramush Haradinaj

bbc news
 17 August 2011, Last updated at 16:53 GMT
Ramush Haradinaj, the former Kosovo prime minister, is facing retrial at The Hague for war crimes allegedly committed when he was a rebel commander.

He was acquitted of the charges in 2008, but a partial retrial was ordered after appeal judges at the international war crimes tribunal found witnesses had been intimidated during the original 10-month trial....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14542505