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Croats Joke About Re-Opening Camp for Thieving Politicians

Over 1,300 people have signed a not-quite-serious online petition to re-open the infamous Yugoslav Communist-era prison camp on Goli Otok [Bare Island] - but not to punish political dissidents.

They say the camp inmates should be criminals of a different type - people who have robbed the country of its wealth and impoverished society.

Top UN judge urges Turkey to free justice arrested after coup attempt

A leading U.N. war crimes judge on Nov. 9 called on Turkey to free one of its justices who was arrested in September as part of an investigation into the July 15 failed coup attempt.
The detention of Aydın Sefa Akay, 66, has paralyzed an appeals hearing in Rwanda, judge Theodor Meron, the president of the United Nations' Mechanism for International Tribunals, told the United Nations.

NATO's 1999 bombing campaign was aggression, says Lavrov

The United States is publicly insulting Russia by accusing it of war crimes in Syria, even though the U.S. bombed civilian targets "in the former Yugoslavia."

Tanjug cited TASS on Monday to report Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying this, in reference to NATO's 1999 bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ), made up of Serbia and Montenegro.

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