Worldwide May Events and comment

From my Blog Perpetual TravellerMay has arrived with the usual fanfare of celebration across the globe, but sadly also to the Swine Flu outbreak scare, which originated in a rural area of Mexico and has almost brought the capital Mexico City to a stand still, which in synergy...

Serbian Gay gathering attacked, US man injured

" © AP 2008-09-21 17:41:01 - BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbian police say nationalists have attacked a gay gathering, injuring three people, including a U.S. citizen. Police official Slobodan Vukelic said...

Monster Radovan Karadzic pictured clean-shaven for first time since capture

Clean-shaven Radovan Karadzic appears for first time in UN court after 13 years on the run, facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. " THIS is monster Radovan Karadzic clean-shaven for the first...

Karadzic Sent to Hague as Serbs Protest

Accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic, who is accused of leading the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s Yugoslav civil wars, has been sent to the Hague to face an international criminal court. Before he...

Karadzic extradited to The Hague

After being arrested on 21 july Serbian leader  Radovan Karadzic has been transfered to war tribunal court in the Hague. 63 years old former serbian leader was hiding for 13 years and had changed...

Karadzic violent rally attracts fewer than expected

UPDATE: 9:33PM ESTThe rally apparently attracted far fewer numbers that expected, despite the violence that occurred. " The turnout prompted hopes that the political tide in Serbia had turned in favour of the...

EU envoys consider Serbia's bid

UPDATE 11AM: The EU has decided to put off a decision on whether to unfreeze trade benefits for Serbia. For every action there is a reaction, and the EU is looking to quickly demonstrate that they were serious...

The other side to the Karadzic story

If there can be another point of view on a murderous dictator, you can always count on the historical revisionists.  It was only a few years after WW2 when Holocaust deniers started to gain a voice and...

Radovan Karadzic gets a jail make-over

War criminal Radovan Karadzic has gotten himself a new make-over in jail to return him to the familiar coiffured figure that terrorised tens of thousands of people.His disguise (hideous I might add) helped him...

Karadzic Grew Long White Beard and Hid in Plain Sight

As NowPublic reported yesterday, Radovan Karadzic, the accused mastermind of crimes of genocide in Bosnia during the mid 1990s, was able to evade capture for a decade, after growing a long white beard that made...

War Crimes Suspect Arrested

Radovan Karadzic was arrested for war crimes by the Serbian security forces Monday after eluding his pursuers for over 10 years.  He is being incarcerated in Belgrade today to face the War Crimes Court on...

Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive arrested

OpiinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorStojan Zupljanin, on the run for a few years from the law for atrocious war crimes unimaginable in the ethnic cleansing of Muslim and Croat men, women and children. In...

Pro-Europeans win in Serbia

Brussels is breathing a sigh of relief today as the results come in from the Serbian general election, in which the moderate pro-European party has emerged a voctor. Many had feared that the Kosovo independence...

UN peacekeeping chief calls for law, order in Kosovo

"The UN peacekeeping chief Jean- Marie Guehenno on Sunday called on Kosovo Serb leaders to respect law and order as violence is not a way to solve problems.Guehenno, the UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, made the appeal after meeting the presidents of...

Farmer Cuts Property in Two to Give to Ex-wife

"BELGRADE -- A Serb farmer used a grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported on Thursday. Branko Zivkov, 76, told Belgrade daily Kurir he had been ready...

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