UN war crimes tribunal sets Oct. 26 start for trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic

October 13th, 2009 Appeals panel rejects Karadzic immunity claimTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — An appeals panel has rejected Radovan Karadzic's claim that he cannot be tried at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal because he was promised immunity by an American envoy, according to a ruling released Tuesday. The decision dismisses the former Bosnian Serb leader's last legal challenge to his trial on 11 charges including genocide for allegedly masterminding atrocities against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats during the country's 1992-95 war.

September 30th, 2009 Karadzic appeals start date of war crimes trialAMSTERDAM — Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has appealed the Oct. 19 start date for his war crimes trial, arguing that judges have not given him enough time to prepare.

September 30th, 2009 Bosnian jailed in Serbia for war crimesBELGRADE, Serbia — A Serbian court on Monday convicted a wartime Bosnian security officer of ordering a 1992 attack on a Yugoslav army convoy that killed at least 50 soldiers and sentenced him to 12 years in prison The trial of Ilija Jurisic at the Serbian war crimes court has strained relations between Bosnia and Serbia. Bosnian officials had claimed the proceedings were staged and politically motivated and demanded his release.

September 22nd, 2009 UN prosecutors decline to trim Karadzic caseTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors are resisting calls by the U.N. court's judges to further streamline their case against Radovan Karadzic, saying it could mean dropping key charges against the former Bosnian Serb leader.

September 16th, 2009 Protesters burn photos of UN judges in SarajevoSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Protesters have set photos of several U.N. war crimes tribunal judges on fire in Sarajevo to oppose the shortening of the genocide indictment against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

September 15th, 2009 Former Bosnian Serb President Plavsic to be freedTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced Tuesday it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution. The decision means that one of the most senior political leaders ever convicted by the U.N.

September 8th, 2009 Karadzic trial to begin Oct 19, last 2 1/2 yearsAMSTERDAM — A U.N. judge Tuesday rejected a plea from former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for more time to prepare his defense and ordered his long-awaited war crimes trial to begin next month.

August 26th, 2009 Ex-Bosnian Serb chief: US helped Iran arm MuslimsAMSTERDAM — Radovan Karadzic is seeking evidence that the U.S. turned a blind eye to weapons shipments from Iran to Muslim forces fighting in the Bosnian war, to support his claim that Serbs acted in self-defense during the conflict.

August 20th, 2009 Ex-Bosnian leader Karadzic's genocide trial nearsTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — The pretrial judge in the war crimes case against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Thursday he believes the case is ready for trial. The recommendation by Judge Iain Bonomy to the president of the U.N.

July 24th, 2009 Serb Radicals leader convicted of contemptTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. judges convicted the leader of Serbia's largest political party of contempt of court Friday for revealing the names of three protected witnesses who testified at his war crimes trial.

July 23rd, 2009 Karadzic want to prove Srebrenica toll exaggeratedTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Thursday he wants access to DNA from mass graves in an attempt to show that the death toll in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Muslim men has been exaggerated. Karadzic has indicated in a series of pre-trial hearings before the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal that he will attempt to challenge the truth of some of the most notorious atrocities of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

July 20th, 2009 Bosnian Serbs convicted of burning Muslims aliveTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — A U.N. war crimes court convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins Monday for a 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive.

July 8th, 2009 Court rejects Karadzic motion to dismiss chargesTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Wednesday rejected Radovan Karadzic's request to dismiss his indictment based on a claim that he cut an immunity deal with U.S. peace envoy Richard Holbrooke.

June 5th, 2009 Court confirms indictment against Bosnian SerbSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia's war crimes court says a former Bosnian Serb police officer accused of taking part in the killing of at least 1,000 Muslim Bosniak men from the town of Srebrenica will be tried for genocide. The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina charged in a statement Friday that, as a member of a Bosnian Serb special police unit, Zeljko Ivankovic, 37, killed the victims in a warehouse into which Bosnia Serbs had herded them, "with a view to entirely destroying a group of Bosniaks." The 1995 massacre of 8,100 Bosniaks that followed the Serb occupation of the east Bosnian town of Srebrenica is considered the worst carnage in Europe since World War II.

April 29th, 2009 UN judge rejects Karadzic jurisdiction challengesTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — A judge at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Wednesday rejected challenges by Radovan Karadzic and said the U.N. court had jurisdiction to try him on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.