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2008
Sunday 10 February 2008 Several thousand people demonstrated in Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, on Saturday in protest against crimes by juveniles. The protest was sparked by the murder of a local youth, Denis Mrnjavac, by three youths earlier this week. Last month, three youths set an elderly woman on fire. The crowd massed in front of the city's cathedral accused the city authorities of doing nothing to prevent juvenile violence. They later threw eggs at the presidency building.
Tuesday 29 January 2008 Bosnian police have arrested three Bosnian Serbs on suspicion of crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 war in the former Yugoslav republic. The state prosecutor's office says that the three suspects are all from the town of Vlasenica. The prosecutor will decide whether to remand them in custody while further enquiries are made. As many as eight thousand civilians, mostly Muslims from theVlasenica region, were detained in the Susica camp in northeastern Bosnia between May and October 1992. The camp's commander, Dragan Nikolic, was arrested in 2000 and sentenced by the United Nations war crimes tribunal to 20 years in prison.
Slobodan Milosevic
By Carla del Ponte, chief U.N. war-crimes prosecutor who sought to bring the former Yugoslav strongman to justice
For me as prosecutor, Milosevic was one of the most responsible and most senior accused to face trial in the Hague. This highly complex trial had specific importance for the future of international criminal justice. Therefore his death before the judgment was a major blow for my office, for all the victims affected by the crimes for which he was charged, and for the efforts invested in our fight against impunity. We were so near the end — I was stupefied. We lost the chance to create the global picture of what really happened in Yugoslavia.
Tuesday 14 March 2006,  Milosevic took 'unprescribed drugs' ...took unprescribed antibiotics that may have worsened his health, a Dutch toxicologist has said, even as plans for the former Yugoslav president's funeral remain in disarray
Monday Mar 13, 2006 Yugoslavia's former president, Slobodan Milosevic, was found dead in his prison cell in The Hague on Saturday morning, apparently from natural causes. He had suffered from chronic heart ailments and high blood pressure. He had been on trial before the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal since February, 2002, facing 66 counts of crimes including genocide in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. His trial had been recessed until Tuesday to await his next defence witness. Last month, judges rejected his request to receive medical treatment in Russia, where his wife is thought to live. In reaction to the news of his death, his wife blamed U.N. authorities for keeping him in poor conditions. His opponents fear that his sudden death will turn him into a martyr in Serbia. An autopsy will be performed on his body to clarify the cause of death.
Sunday Mar 12, 2006  Slobodan Miloševic AKA 'Butcher of the Balkans'. Up to 230,000 killed and three million displaced.
The southern Slavic states of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia begin to emerge as a unified state following the First World War. But the legacy of a 400-year occupation by the Islamic Ottoman Empire and traditional tension between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians frustrate attempts for unity. Following the Second World War, Yugoslav communists led by Marshal Josip Broz Tito take control of the government, declaring the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia on 29 November 1945.
The veneer of Yugoslav stability begins to deteriorate when Tito dies on 4 May 1980. The prosperous northern states of Croatia and Slovenia start to agitate for autonomy. Macedonia and the Muslim majorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Serbian province of Kosovo repeat the call. Serbia has political power under the federation and does not want change. The poorer southern state of Montenegro supports the centralised federation and backs Serbia. More background.
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2005
Thursday Dec 8, 2005 rci A former Bosnian Croat soldier has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by the UN War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. The charges against Miroslav Bralo, also known as Cicko, include murder, rape and the torture of Muslims during the l993 Muslim-Croat war in central Bosnia. The judge said he would have handed down a sentence of 25 years, if it had not been for mitigating circumstances,
including Bralo's guilty plea, his remorse and voluntary surrender to the court.
Sunday Nov 13, 2005 rci Forensic experts have reportedly recovered the remains of 227 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst mass killing since the World War Two. The discovery was made after exhumations from a mass grave in the northeastern Bosnian village of Snagovo. In 1995, Serbian troops attacked the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica and killed as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys. Over the years, forensics experts in Bosnia have exhumed some 16,000 bodies from more than 300 mass graves in the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Thousands of people remain missing and are presumed dead.
Friday Oct 28, 2005 nyt Kosovo, Still Messy After All These Years
Even with the best of intentions, an independent Kosovo will require international forces and strong oversight for a long time.
Sunday Jul 10, 2005 rci Hundreds of survivors of the Bosnian massacre in the town of Srebrenica began a symbolic march to the town where some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serbs in July, l995. On Monday, some 50,000 people, including Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, are expected to gather in Srebrenica for tenth anniversary commemorative services. The atrocity was the worst committed in Europe since the end of the Second World War. It was carried out after Bosnian Serb forces overran the town, which the United Nations had declared a safe haven.
Sunday Jul 10, 2005 rci Survivors of a massacre in Bosnia have begun a three-day commemorative march. They'll retrace a route that they used ten years ago to escape from Bosnian Serb forces who killed about 8,000 Muslims in the town of Srebrenica. The march by hundreds of survivors will end on Monday in Srebrenica, where about 50,000 people are expected to gather at a memorial cemetery. About 1,300 victims are already buried there. The remains of another 600 victims will be interred during the ceremony on Monday.
Friday Jun 10, 2005 rci The Bosnian-Serb government has admitted that police forces from Serbia took part in the massaccre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebenica. The Sarajevo-based newspaper "Oslobodjenje" says the admission is contained in the latest report by a government commission investigating the massacre. The report says the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry had confirmed the involvement of interior ministry forces in the massacre. Ljubomir Borovcanin, who reportedly led the forces, is in custody in The Hague. The newspaper also says the report confirms that a mixed union of joint police forces of the Republika Srpska, Krajina, Serbia and the Serb Republic took part in the killings. Serbia has always denied that its forces took part in the 1992-1995 Bosnia war.
Thursday 8 Jul 2004 ts
MILOSEVIC TO UNDERGO MEDICAL TESTS
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic will undergo medical tests
to determine whether he is well enough to defend himself in his war
crimes trial, the UN tribunal said Tuesday.
 Stephen S. Poloz VP EDC Economics Weekly Commentary
Croatia: Both Hope and Substance - July 7, 2004
From the vast economic melting pot that now constitutes Europe there are emerging a number of great success stories. And one potential newcomer that has received scant attention is Croatia. see his wn page.
Past issues
Saturday Jun 19, 2004 cbc
 GENOCIDE CHARGES AGAINST MILOSEVIC WILL STAND
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has dismissed a motion to drop
genocide charges against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
Saturday 15 May 2004 SARAJEVO:
CANADA CONTRIBUTES MORE FOR BOSNIA MINE-CLEARING
Canada has contributed $4.5 million more to help the United Nations destroy landmines in Bosnia that are left over from that country's devastating civil war between 1992 and 1995. An accord to that effect was signed in Sarajevo on Thursday by Canada's ambassador to Bosnia, Shelley Whitting, Bosnia's minister of civil affairs, Safet Halilovic, and the representative of the UN Development Program, Jens Toyberg-Frandzen. Mr. Whitting says Canada's goal is to allow Bosnians the safe and productive use of the country's land, roads and infrastructure. Since the war ended, most of the financing for mine-clearing in Bosnia has been financed from outside the country. Canada has contributed, excluding Thursday's announced contribution, $11.3 million. Mr. Toyberg-Frandzen says that since the war ended, only 10 per cent of the mines laid during the conflict have been destroyed.
Thursday 26 Feb 2004 ec | THE HAGUE
Former Yugoslavia Justice on trial The long, slow trial of Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav president, is raising questions about international courts
Thursday 26 Feb 2004 ts
U.N. rests its case against Milosevic
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Two years` worth of evidence has failed to produce the "smoking gun" that directly proves Slobodan Milosevic is guilty of genocide, the U.N.`s chief prosecutor says.
2003
Friday Aug 1, 2003 The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in
The Hague has handed down its harshest punishment since it was
established. The court has sentenced a Bosnian Serb to life
imprisonment for his involvement in the murder and deportation of
thousands of ethnic Muslims and Croats in 1992. Milomir Stakic was
found guilty of conducting a racist conspiracy to establish an ethnic
Serbian state in Bosnia. However, the court acquitted him of
genocide.
Sunday Mar 30, 2003 bbc
 Milosevic's wife 'ordered killing'
Serbia's deputy prime minister has accused the family of former Yugoslav President Slobadan Milosevic of ordering the assassination of a political opponent whose remains were discovered last week.
Serbian police said on Saturday they have "credible suspicions" that Mr Milosevic's wife, Mirjana Markovic, was involved in the death of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic, who disappeared in 2000.
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The long, slow trial of Slobodan Milosevic 
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