Hague Tribunal

Several events are being held in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday and Friday to commemorate the death of former Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak, a year after he swallowed poison in the courtroom while the verdict finding him guilty of war crimes was being read out.

During the meeting Brnabic urged that every effort be made to ensure better treatment of Serbian citizens serving sentences handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Speaking for Tirana, Albania-based broadcaster Ora News, the Swiss jurist also noted that Kosovo "cannot be a state."

Del Ponte explained that Haradinaj has been convicted in the first instance by the Hague war crimes tribunal, while Kosovo does not fulfill the conditions necessary to be a state.

This is being reported by the daily Blic.

The newspaper recalls in its article that General Pavkovic was found guilty of war crimes committed in Kosovo by the former Hague Tribunal, and that he made this statement from a jail in Finland.

Mladic, a military leader of Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1992-95 conflict, was previously found guilty on war crimes and genocide charges and sentenced to life in prison - a ruling that both Mladic and the prosecution have appealed against.

A Croatian artist is exhibiting a painting of Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak taking poison after the Hague Tribunal convicted him last year of committing war crimes against Bosniaks in the 1990s.

The case involves Croatian military planes bombing Serbian refugees on August 9, 1995 near Banacki Petrovac in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when nine people - four children and six adults - were killed and 50 were injured or badly wounded.

Tomanovic talked about his experiences while working as Slobodan Milosevic's legal adviser in The Hague. In the interview, the lawyer revealed how their last encounter went.

These reports quote neighbors who said the migrants broke into one of the apartments on the ground floor of a building where Karadzic's wife has her apartment, and then into another, where the family lived until the spring of 1992.

The neighbors claim they saw the migrants break into "one of the apartments" and stayed there.

Hoti - born in 1945 in Ratkovac - was a Russian language professor at the Pristina University, a translator, and a media worker who was captured and murdered while working with a Russian state television crew that was in Kosovo in July 1998 in an attempt to interview members of the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") in the village of Lapusnik.