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ARTHUR MUTAMBARA, Zimbabwe's Deputy Prime Minister, castigating President Robert Mugabe after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced on Oct. 16 that he would boycott the country's unity government...
Quotes By: • "I would [not] and never will boycott my trial, but if I am not prepared, that would not be a trial at all." - In a letter dated Oct. 23 and released after the trial proceedings began, in which Karadzic claimed he was not given enough time to read hundreds of documents to prepare his case...
...Despite the fact that the trial is under way, Karadzic's boycott has cast a pall over the tribunal, which was set up 15 years ago by the U.N. Security Council to try those responsible for atrocities committed during the war. Many survivors and relatives of victims fear that Karadzic's trial will play out similarly to that of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who used repeated stall tactics to drag out his proceedings for three years before eventually dying in custody. Many of the problems stemmed from the decision by the tribunal to allow Milosevic to defend himself...
...Just days before the trial was scheduled to begin, Karadzic announced that he would boycott the proceedings to protest the court's decision to deny him additional time to prepare his defense. In a letter to the court, Karadzic complained that he was being "buried under tons of pages of legal documents" and compared himself with victims of staged trials in Nazi Germany. The trial opened as scheduled on Oct. 26 but was adjourned 20 minutes later when Karadzic refused to appear. With the defendant again absent the next day, the proceedings started without him. In his opening statement, Tieger...
Despite a fresh warning by the Taliban on Oct. 24 asking Afghans to boycott next month's presidential election runoff, both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and rival Abdullah Abdullah launched the second round of their campaigns, the first step toward bringing resolution to an election that has been mired in fraud and controversy. But will Afghans overcome their suspicions and security fears in order to turn out in enough numbers to bestow legitimacy on this next round...