Radovan Karadzic, a onetime psychiatrist who led his Bosnian Serb people through a brutal ethnic war, was extradited early today to the international tribunal in The Hague, where he will stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Radovan Karadzic, one of the most notorious war crimes suspects to emerge from the Balkan Wars and a fugitive for more than a decade, was captured today by Serbian security forces, officials said.
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Serbia’s pro-West president and the European Union on Tuesday reached a long-delayed agreement to forge closer ties, but harsh reaction among many Serbs immediately threatened both the pact and the leaders who backed it.
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Slobodan Milosevic’s feared paramilitary commander was found guilty
Wednesday in the 2003 murder of pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic, an assassination that shocked the nation and damaged the
cause of democratic reform.
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The United Nations’ highest court ruled Monday that Serbia failed to
prevent the massacre of Muslims during the Bosnian war but was not
directly responsible for the atrocities, ending a landmark case in
which an entire nation was tried for genocide.
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This spectacular wisp of mountains and coastland along the Adriatic
became the world’s newest country Monday when its electoral
commission declared that Montenegrins had narrowly approved severing
all formal ties to Serbia, ending a relationship with its Balkan
neighbor that had lasted nearly 90 years.
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Montenegrins turned out in force Sunday to vote on independence from
Serbia, and early today the prime minister, who led the separatist
drive, declared victory.
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In its harshest terms yet, the European Union on Wednesday blasted
Serbia’s failure to hand over accused war criminal Gen.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died of heart failure
while in his prison cell, according to preliminary autopsy findings
announced Sunday by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead Saturday
in the prison cell where he had spent his final years facing trial on
genocide and war crimes charges for his role in the nationalist wars
that racked the Balkans in the 1990s.
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