State Department steps up search for war criminals
WAP2000030251 - 02 MARCH 2000 - WASHINGTON, D.C, USA: David Scheffer, U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes, unveils a poster at the State Department, March 2, that will be distributed in Europe in an effort to step up the drive for the conviction of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and two other suspected war criminals. The State Department is offering up to $5 million dollars for information leading to the conviction of Milosevic, and two suspect Serbs, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. rg/rg/Rachel Griffith UPI
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Serbia will again request its convicted war criminals serve their prison sentences in Serbia, a government representative to The Hague said.
Ex-Bosnia Serb leader Radovan Karadzic began his defense in a war crimes trial Tuesday by saying he was a peaceful man and guilty only of "political stupidity."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday became the first United Nations chief to visit Srebrenica, the site of a 1995 massacre of 8,372 Muslim men and boys.
Thousands of people were in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Wednesday to mark the 17th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim males by Bosnian Serb forces.
A U.N. tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's motion for acquittal on war crimes charges.
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," showed no remorse as he went on trial Wednesday for war crimes.
The U.N. Balkan war crimes tribunal Friday sentenced a former municipal officer to two months in prison for refusing to testify at Radovan Karadzic's trial.
The U.N. tribunal for the Balkan conflicts Thursday charged a former Serb official with contempt of court for refusing to testify at Radovan Karadzic's trial.
French authorities were called on to arrest the former spokeswoman of the war crimes tribunal for Yugoslavia, a tribunal authority said.
International tribunal judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers began a five-day visit to Sarajevo, site of a prolonged siege during the 1990s Balkan conflicts.
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