Persecution of Muslims

The prosecution in Sarajevo charged former Bosnian Serb soldier Svetozar Kosoric with being part of a joint criminal enterprise aimed at exterminatinge Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

Closing arguments for the defence of Ratko Mladic began on Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, with the wartime military commander's lawyers arguing that the "unfortunate killings" of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were acts of "private revenge" over which the Bosnian Serb Army chief had no control.

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic was a key figure in the Srebrenica massacre of Muslims and a joint criminal enterprise aimed at forcibly creating a Serb state in large portions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Monday at the beginning of their closing argument, four years after the start of Mladic's trial.

THE HAGUE/SARAJEVO - Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic on Monday appealed a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentencing him to 40 years in prison over the Srebrenica genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

In a rare interview, former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of genocide in Srebrenica, said that the crimes were actually committed by “traitors to the Serb people”.

Radovan Karadzic has given his first interview to Serbian media after he was sentenced to 40 years for genocide in Srebrenica and crimes against humanity.

Former RS President Radovan Karadzic on Monday appealed a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Photo: Valerie Kuypers / Reuters

THE HAGUE/SARAJEVO - Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic on Monday appealed a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentencing him to 40 years in prison over the Srebrenica genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic was a key figure in the Srebrenica massacre of Muslims and a joint criminal enterprise aimed at forcibly creating a Serb state in large portions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Monday at the beginning of their closing argument, four years after the start of Mladic's trial.

Greece soccer officials have apologized to the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina after a fan's banner referred to the Srebrenica massacre at a World Cup qualifying match.

In a statement Monday, the Greek soccer federation condemned the "unacceptable posting of a banner with fascist content ... which it condemns in the most absolute and categorical way."