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Apart from the longstanding Kurdish issue, Turkey has been increasingly edgy over the past few months, with the country's secularist establishment - mainly the military and the courts - locked in a struggle for power with the Islamic-rooted ruling party. On Monday, the 11 judges of the Constitutional Court began...
A Litany of Horrors The indictment, first drawn up in 1995, says that Karadzic, who presided - often grandly - over the self-styled "Serbian Republic" in eastern and northern Bosnia during the war, is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims, as well as for a vicious...
Karadzic has appealed his extradition, but is widely expected to be transferred soon to the Hague. In 2000, the prosecution reduced his indictment from an accumulated 36 counts to 11; Mirko Klarin, an observer at the Hague court since its inception, says it may thus make better headway than it...
Until they do, Serbia is not entirely off the hook with the tribunal. Mladic, after all, was physically present at Srebrenica on the eve of the massacre, and his indictment is every bit as damning as Karadzic's. Still, the Karadzic arrest has set a new tone in Belgrade. Says...
Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, made a mockery of his 1998 indictment by a Spanish judge for the kidnapping, torture and killing of more than 3,000 people. But when Chile refused to grant him immunity, Pinochet spent the remaining years of his life being wheeled into and out...