Sentence increased to life for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
byRadovan Karadzic was sentenced to life in prison after a UN court rejected his appeal and increased his original sentence of 40 years behind…
War crimes
Radovan Karadzic – Another Butcher of Bosnia
byRadovan Karadzic, the Butcher of Bosnia, is a Bosnian Serb former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the President of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War and sought the direct…
Paddy Ashdown
byJeremy John Durham Ashdown, known as Paddy Ashdown, was the international community’s high representative to Bosnia Herzegovina from 27th May 2002. In May 2006…
The Aftermath of Srebrenica
byBosnian Serb forces went to great lengths to hide the traces of the crimes committed at Srebrenica. United States intelligent experts assisted to locate…
Srebrenica Massacre
byIn July 1995 more than 8000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war. It is known…
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
byThe International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since…
The Fall of Milosevic
byYugoslavia disappeared from the map after 83 years of existence. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up into constituent republics. The final two…
War Crimes
byMass violence resulted in ethnic cleansing, deportation, murders, torture, rape, concentration camps, devastation of villages, besieged cities, destruction of cultural and religious monuments and…
Death of Milosevic
byMilosevic, who presided over wars and slaughter in which more than 250,000 people died, was found dead in his prison cell, cheating justice for…
The Bosnian War – April 1993 to February 1994
byThe attempt to keep Bosnia intact under a federal state was finally abandoned in May 1993 when the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace…