World news about “War crimes” published by euronews.
No jail for marine in Haditha massacre case A US marine accused of leading a massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians has been spared jail by a military judge. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich was one of eight… 25/01/2012
Mladic removed from war crimes court – nocomment Ratko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The chief judge… 04/07/2011
Serbia after Mladic arrest In the space of a week, Serbian President (since 2004) Boris Tadic announced the arrest of Europe’s most wanted war crimes indictee, former Bosnian Serb… 03/06/2011
Thousands rally in Bosnia supporting Ratko Mladic – nocomment Thousands gathered in Banja Luka on Tuesday for a massive support rally for Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader arrested over genocide and war… 31/05/2011
Ratko Mladic arrested – nocomment Mladic was captured after Serbian security forces raided a relative’s house in the village of Lazarevo, about 80 kilometres north of the capital, Belgrade… 27/05/2011
Mladic: A Chief prosecutor’s perspective Euronews spoke to Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Frederic Bouchard, Euronews: During a… 26/05/2011
Digging up the truth in Kosovo The field of grief – that is what they call the biggest Albanian cemetery of civilian victims from the Kosovo war. But more than 10 years on, the focus is… 10/02/2011
UN faces legal action over Srebrenica massacre This is the former UN Dutch compound near Srebrenica It’s here on the 11th of July 1995 that this so-called UN safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb Forces. And… 09/07/2010
Life for US army thrill-killerAn American soldier behind a spate of thrill-killings in Afghanistan has been sentenced to life in prison. Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs admitted at the… 11/11/2011
US soldier convicted of Afghan atrocitiesA US army sergeant, Calvin Gibbs, faces a maximum life sentence, after being convicted by court-martial of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers off… 11/11/2011
Serb nationalist Seselj jailed for contempt of courtThe jailed Serbian nationalist, Vojislav Seselj has been convicted of contempt of court by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. He was sent down for 18 months… 31/10/2011
‘Angel of Death’ jailed for life in ArgentinaA former Argentinian navy captain known as the Blond Angel of Death has been jailed for life in Buenos Aires for mass torture and murder during the country’s… 27/10/2011
War crimes court to probe Ivory Coast atrocitiesThe international war crimes court has confirmed it will investigate allegations of killings and rapes in Ivory Coast after disputed presidential elections… 03/10/2011
Fight intensifies in Gaddafi’s home townLibya’s interim government fighters have been bombarding the city of Sirte while NATO warplanes are reported to have carried out bombing raids on the Gaddafi… 25/09/2011
UN court jails ex-Yugoslav army chief for 27 yearsMomcilo Perisic, the ex-army chief of the former Yugoslavia, has been sentenced to 27 years behind bars for war crimes. The UN tribunal in the Hague jailed… 06/09/2011
Yugoslav military chief Perisic guilty of war crimes The former Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Army has been found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to 27 years in prison. Momcilo Perisic had denied all… 06/09/2011
Accused war criminal dies awaiting appealFormer Hungarian army captain Sandor Kepiro has died aged 97. He was accused of taking part in WWII’s Novi Sad Massacre but fled to Argentina before returning… 03/09/2011
Croatian Serb Goran Hadzic denies war crimesThe Croatian Serb rebel leader Goran Hadzic has denied charges of war crimes during the fighting in former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. He pleaded not… 24/08/2011
Rights group blames all sides in Somali crisisEnd war crimes to help tackle famine – that is plea comes from Human Rights Watch. It says all parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have violated the laws of… 15/08/2011
Hadzic refuses to enter plea in courtSerbia’s last major war crimes suspect, Goran Hadzic, refused to enter a plea when he appeared before a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the… 25/07/2011
Last fugitive set to make first appearance at the HagueFormer Croatian Serb rebel leader, Goran Hadzic is set to make his first appearance before the UN’s war crimes tribunal. The 52-year-old, the last fugitive… 25/07/2011
Last fugitive from Yugoslav conflict arrives in The HagueThe last remaining fugitive from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia has arrived in the Hague. Goran Hadzic was the wartime leader of Croatia’s Serbs and is… 22/07/2011
Serbs prepare last delivery for warcrime trialSerbia is about to transfer the last fugitive on a UN list of figures charged with war crimes to face trial in The Hague, following the arrest of Goran… 21/07/2011
Reaction to the arrest of Goran HadzicThe arrest of Goran Hadzic the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990 Yugoslav conflicts has been welcomed in many areas of Europe. He was seized about… 21/07/2011
Vukovar welcomes arrest of HadzicVukovar in 1991 was the scene of a massacre for which Goran Hadzic is being held responsible. Almost 300 men perished after Serb forces took the Vukovar… 20/07/2011
Serbs catch last big warcrime indicteeSerbia’s last remaining major war crime fugitive wanted by the United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has been arrested. A former leading figure in… 20/07/2011
Serbia says war crime suspect’s arrest ‘efficient’Serbia’s president has confirmed that war crime suspect Goran Hadzic was arrested in the region of Fruske Gore. Boris Tadic also answered a journalist’s… 20/07/2011
Last major Serb warcrime suspect arrestedSerbia’s last remaining major war crimes fugitive sought by the United Nations tribunal has been arrested: Goran Hadzic. The key figure in the breakaway… 20/07/2011
Hungarian war crimes suspect clearedHungarian war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro was acquitted over World War II Nazi executions in Serbia on Monday. A Budapest Municipal Court cleared the… 18/07/2011
Ex-Croat PM to be extraditedAustria is set to extradite former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Monday to face corruption charges in his home country. Police confirmed that… 18/07/2011
Srebrenica marks massacre anniversaryHundreds of Bosnian Muslims killed during the Srebrenica Massacre 16 years ago were reburied on Monday with thousands of mourners looking on. The killing… 11/07/2011
Serb leader in Bosnia: war-crimes hunt continuesThe president of Serbia has made an official visit to neighbouring Bosnia Herzegovina and promised to hunt down the last remaining Bosnian war-crimes… 06/07/2011
Mladic court appearance watched by victims’ familiesRelatives of the victims of Srebrenica gathered outside the tribunal in the Hague. Forever scarred by the ordeal, they have waited a long time to see Ratko… 04/07/2011
Angry exchanges lead to Mladic’s removal from UN court Ratko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The chief… 04/07/2011
UN court enters not guilty plea on behalf of MladicRatko Mladic has refused to enter a plea at the UN war crimes court in The Hague, angrily demanding more time to appoint his own lawyers. The head judge… 04/07/2011
Mladic refuses to plead at UN war crimes tribunalFormer leader of the Bosnian-Serb army Ratko Mladic will boycott a war crimes hearing on Monday. Mladic is due to appear before the court to enter a plea to… 04/07/2011
Life sentence for Rwanda ex-women’s ministerPauline Nyiramasuhuko has been sentenced to life in prison for genocide and encouraging the rape of Tutsi women. The judgement signalled the end of a ten-year… 24/06/2011
Ex-minister gets life sentence for Rwanda genocidePauline Nyiramasuhuko, a former Rwanda women’s minister, has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the country’s 1994 genocide. The 65-year-old… 24/06/2011
Prosecutor pursues Ivory Coast war crimes investigationTop war crimes prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, wants to investigate the months of violence in the Ivory Coast. He has asked the International Criminal Court… 24/06/2011
Calls for the truth about the horrors of Sri Lankan warPressure is growing on the Sri Lankan government to fully investigate alleged war crimes committed in the final months of civil war in 2009. Horrific… 15/06/2011
Mladic slams ‘monstrous’ war crimes chargesRatko Mladic, the former head of the Bosnian Serb army, appeared in court for the first time on Friday to face charges of war crimes after 16 years on the… 03/06/2011
Mixed response in ex-Yugoslavia to Mladic trialThe opening of the Mladic trial proved a powerful draw for members of all communities back in the former Yugoslavia. In the Serbian capital Belgrade, there… 03/06/2011
‘He’s like a dog’ Srebrenica mothers see Mladic in the dockAs Ratko Mladic made his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal the women of Srebrenica gathered at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial to watch the… 03/06/2011
Mladic faces international justice for the first timeRatko Mladic has made his first appearance before a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs has said he does… 03/06/2011
Mladic hospitalised as Hague court appearence goes ahead as plannedGenocide suspect Ratko Mladic has been admitted to prison hospital at The Hague detention centre. His court appointed lawyer said the health of the former… 02/06/2011
Mladic fit to stand trial in The HagueAfter medical examinations, former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic has been declared fit to appear before the tribunal in The Hague on… 02/06/2011
Bosnian war legacy is endured by survivorsMore than a decade and a half on, the remains of those killed in Bosnia during its brutal war are still being recovered. Locals from the town of Zvornik… 02/06/2011
UN says rebels and Gaddafi are guilty of war crimesAn explosion damaged two cars in front of a hotel in Benghazi used for press conferences by the Libyan rebel administration on Wednesday. It claimed no… 01/06/2011
Brammertz stresses importance of Mladic trial16 years after being indicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic is under guard in… 01/06/2011
Mladic trial revives questions over Dutch troopsThe trial of General Ratko Mladic may help to shed light on some of the more obscure events at Srebrenica. The responsibility of the UN peacekeeping force… 01/06/2011
Serbs cry foul over Mladic extraditionUnsurprisingly, there is only one story dominating the media in Serbia. Ratko Mladic may now be awaiting trial in a cell at The Hague but the question of… 01/06/2011
‘Mladic gave me chocolate’: Srebrenica boy remembersIn the wake of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, more survivors of the horrific events at Srebrenica have been telling their stories. Fear of the Bosnian Serbs’… 01/06/2011
Mladic due in war crimes court on FridayRatko Mladic will face his first war crimes hearing on Friday, having been flown into The Hague. He will be formally charged and asked to enter a plea. … 01/06/2011
Mladic awaits trial at The HagueRatko Mladic will appear before the UN war crimes tribunal on Friday to face genocide and crimes against humanity charges. Judges at the International… 01/06/2011
Crowd witnesses Mladic arrival at The HagueIt was a day many people had waited for. The arrival of the former Bosnian Serb general at the Hague’s Scheveningen detention centre was watched by media and… 01/06/2011
Mladic spends first night in HagueIt was the journey Ratko Mladic imagined he would never have to make. After 16 years on the run, the former head of the Bosnian Serb army left Rotterdam… 01/06/2011
Mladic in The Hague to face genocide chargesFormer Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has arrived in The Hague to face genocide charges at the UN war crimes tribunal. He landed at Rotterdam… 31/05/2011
Mladic lands in The Hague to face genocide trialThe aircraft carrying Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has landed at Rotterdam airport. The former Bosnian Serb… 31/05/2011
Mladic flown to The HagueA heavily armed convoy took Ratko Mladic from the prison where he had been held since his arrest last week to the airport in Belgrade. A plane carrying the… 31/05/2011
Mladic’s charge sheet: a tale of horrorThe scene is from July 1995. Women, children and a few old men are crammed into buses in Srebrenica, the UN’s supposedly “safe haven” that has just been… 31/05/2011
Thousands rally in support of Ratko MladicAround 10,000 Bosnian Serbs have rallied in a show of support for their wartime commander Ratko Mladic. Hundreds of war veterans were among those who joined… 31/05/2011
Mladic extradition appeal rejected; Hague transfer imminentSerbia’s war crimes court has rejected Ratko Mladic’s appeal against extradition to The Hague to face genocide charges. The court in Belgrade took just a… 31/05/2011
Mladic’s extradition could come within daysRatko Mladic may be sent within four days to face genocide charges in The Hague, according to justice officials. The lawyer for the Bosnian Serb general is… 30/05/2011
Serbians divided over Mladic arrestMany Serbian nationalists idolise Ratko Mladic for the role he played during the Bosnian war and for what he symbolised. In Belgrade, the question of… 26/05/2011
Mladic: Balkan reactionsA new relationship between Serbia and Bosnia is what may arise from the arrest of Mladic, according to the co-president of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency… 26/05/2011
Five years prison for Nazi Holocaust helperA 91-year-old man has been found guilty of helping to kill thousands of Jews in the Sobibor Nazi concentration camp during World War II. John Demjanjuk, who… 12/05/2011
Misrata bombardment possible ‘war crime’Amnesty International says attacks by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi in Misrata could amount to war crimes. Images shot specially for euronews show rebels… 07/05/2011
Sri Lanka denies UN war reportThe Sri Lankan government has rejected a United Nations report blaming it for thousands of civilian deaths after the end of its civil war with Tamil… 26/04/2011
Refugees criticise Gotovina sentenceFor dozens of refugees from Croatia, the camp at Smederovo has been home since they were expelled from the country. Here the verdict on Gotovina was also… 15/04/2011
Former Croatian general jailed for war crimes The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has sentenced the former Croatian general, Ante Gotovina, to 24-years in jail for crimes against humanity. The court… 15/04/2011
Gotovina – Croatia’s fallen heroAnte Gotovina had been on the run for four years before he was apprehended on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Although widely seen as a hero by his… 15/04/2011
UN court jails former Croatian general for war crimesThe former Croatian general Ante Gotovina has been jailed for crimes against humanity by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. It found him guilty of… 15/04/2011
Protests over war crimes arrestThere have been angry scenes outside the Austrian embassy in Sarajevo. The crowd was outraged by the arrest in Vienna of Jovan Divjak. The Serbian Army… 04/03/2011
Taylor’s lawyer says war-crimes trial is a ‘farce’The lawyer defending the former Liberian president Charles Taylor on war-crimes charges has stormed out of court after angry exchanges with the… 08/02/2011
New pressure on Serbia to capture MladicEvery six months the international criminal court for the former Yugoslavia releases a progress report on Serbia and its cooperation with judges in the… 07/12/2010
Catch Mladic, urges top international prosecutorPressure has been stepped up on Serbia to do more to track down the Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic. It comes from the chief prosecutor at the… 06/12/2010
Russia accepts blame for Katyn massacreAfter years of outright denial, Russia has finally admitted that Stalin directly ordered the mass execution of Polish officers during the Second World War… 26/11/2010
War crimes trial of Congo rebel leader beginsThe war crimes trial of the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo gets underway in The Hague on Monday. Ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre… 22/11/2010
Serb police make arrest in fresh Mladic searchPolice in Serbia have made another attempt to capture the suspected genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic. Early on Tuesday morning special forces swooped on… 02/11/2010
Serbia, happy with EU gesture, pledges war crimes cooperationIt is a balancing act for the EU: encouraging democratic reforms in Serbia while keeping up pressure on Belgrade to come to terms with its violent nationalist… 25/10/2010
Time is of the essence in Khmer Rouge genocide trialThe UN-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia has formally indicted the four surviving leaders of the infamous Khmer Rouge regime. Brother Number Two, Nuon… 16/09/2010
UN chief tries to appease RwandaAttempting to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Rwanda, urging the government not to withdraw its… 08/09/2010
UN investigates DRC rapesA United Nations special representative has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate a mass rape earlier this month. Some 154 women and… 27/08/2010
Campbell’s evidence contradicted at war crimes trialIt has been another day of drama at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in the Hague. Hollywood actress Mia Farrow and the… 09/08/2010
Mia Farrow gives evidence at war crimes trialThere’s been another dramatic day in The Hague as Hollywood actress Mia Farrow gave evidence to the war crimes tribunal of former Liberian president Charles… 09/08/2010
Supermodel gives evidence at war crimes trialSupermodel Naomi Campbell has appeared at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor in the Hague. She was summoned by the prosecution to… 05/08/2010
Campbell tells court she was given diamondsBritish supermodel Naomi Campbell told the Sierra Leone war crimes court on Thursday she had been a given pouch containing a few small diamonds while in South… 05/08/2010
Ganic walks free from British courtA British court has refused to extradite former Bosnian military leader Ejup Ganic. He was arrested at Heathrow in March on a Serbian extradition demand… 28/07/2010
Chad says it will not arrest al-BashirTwo non-governmental organisations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have called on Chad to enforce an international arrest warrant on Sudan’s… 22/07/2010
Reaction to Haradinaj’s Hague retrialRamush Haradinaj’s political allies in Kosovo have been reacting to Wednesday’s ruling . Officials from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, the political… 21/07/2010
UN court orders retrial for ex-Kosovo PMA UN court ordered on Wednesday that former Kosovan prime minister Ramush Haradinaj must face a retrial for war crimes. The Hague-based International… 21/07/2010
Tens of thousands mark the Srebrenica massacreTens of thousands of grieving Bosnian Muslims have gathered to mark the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, considered the worst atrocity since the… 11/07/2010
Thousands mark Srebrenica massacreThousands of people have been attending a ceremony in Bosnia to mark the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre – Europe’s worst atrocity since the… 11/07/2010
Mass funeral for Srebenica victims on anniversarySunday marks the culmination of a three-day march to commemorate people killed in the Srebenica massacre. On the 15 year anniversary of the slaughter… 11/07/2010
Srebrenica remembers – 15 years onThere is a sea of coffins in Srebrenica as the town that is synonymous with the Balkans War prepares to bury nearly 800 more of its victims, on the 15th… 10/07/2010
How can you go home when you have lost everything?The Bosnian conflict claimed at least 100,000 lives. But it also created 2.2 million refugees and displaced people, that is half the pre-war population. … 09/07/2010
A Bosnian refugee’s storyAt the age of 24 Almir Mustafic decided to leave everything behind him. He is a skilled worker, a plasterer. He works in the building trade – as do 90 per… 09/07/2010
Life after the Dayton Peace AccordIn November 1995, on a US military base near Dayton, Ohio, negotiations brought an end to Bosnia’s devastating three-year-war. The following month in Paris… 09/07/2010
A daughter remembers the father she lost in Srebrenicaeuronews journalist Laurence Alexandrowicz interviewed Meliha Bosnjak in Lyon. Meliha Bosnjak: “It was the 11 July. It had been a very emotional day. I was… 09/07/2010
Bosnian Muslims react to Srebrenica genocide convictionsThey have waited 15 years for this moment. The women of Srebrenica were watching closely as two Bosnian Serbs are convicted of genocide over the 1995 massacre… 10/06/2010
