Karadzic war crimes trial to begin Oct. 26

Radovan Karadicz was arrested on a bus in Belgrade in July 2008.  It was the end of a long hunt by NATO to capture him.  Initally Karadicz was believed to be hiding in the Serb town of Pale, just...

Breaking the Siege

BY ERIN GOLDEN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE An earlier version of this article appeared in The Irish Times on May 30, 2007. Zlata Filipovic's childhood was ruined by war in her native Sarajevo, but her diary provided an...

10 hurt at Bosnia's first gay festival

As the former Yugoslavia members enjoy independence, the gay community in Bosnia and Serbia has been targeted for attacks recently. It is unclear what is behind such homophobic attacks. Some have argued it could be cause by the underling and still present right...

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...

The war criminal, his wife and the new girlfriend

Radovan Karadzic's secret life has revealed...he had a girlfriend, a  dark-haired middle aged woman that he introduced as Mila, whom he presented as an associate in his alternative medicine business. " The...

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...

Karadzic 'worked in Serb clinic'

The news of Radovan Karadzic of serbia keeps getting better and better as details start to emerge. Karadzic thought sporting a long white beard and calling himself Dragan Dabic will buy him life without facing his crime victims, well it worked for a decade but not any...

Fugitive Karadzic hid as bearded medic

" Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic was working at a medical practice in Belgrade using a false identity and heavily disguised by a snow white beard before his arrest brought an end to more than a decade on the run, Serbian officials said Tuesday. An...

Top Weird Stories of 2007

"BERLIN (Reuters) - From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off," the world was full of weird...

Toddlers to Wed in Arkansas

    In a national call to arms over the quality of the elected officials in America, a recent bill passed by Arkansas state lawmakers would allow anyone of any age to marry with parental consent. An...

All roads lead to Sarajevo

"Today is both the anniversary of the event that started World War I and the day that the treaty was signed that officially brought the war to a close.The event that started the war was the assassination of...

Bosnia acts against Wahhabis

A Syrian Wahhabi imam, Imad al-Husin, has been 'resigned' from his community, AKI reports from Sarajevo.  Imad al-Husin, a Syrian known as Abu Hamza, said he was resigning because of his "inability to express himself in the Bosnian language in order to be understood...

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