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Monday 28 September 2020
The UN can’t defend people in Syria or even deliver aid, writes Barry Andrews. The least we can do is prepare for the prosecution of the terrible crimes that happen there.
Over 7,000 Bosniaks were murdered by Serb forces in July, 1995 during the Bosnian War.
Radovan Karadzic had been on the run for years before being apprehended in 2008.
Suad Mujkić, who lives in Blanchardsown, was nine years old when the Bosnian Serb Army, led my Ratko Mladic, invaded Srebrenica in 1995.
Timeline in pictures and video: on the day Ratko Mladic is imprisoned for life, TheJournal.ie takes a look back at the events of July 1995 – the UN and Europe’s darkest hour.
More than 1,000 of the bodies of those killed are yet to be recovered.
The Dutch UN peacekeepers should have taken into account the possibility that these men would be the victim of genocide, the court ruled.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
A UN war crimes tribunal says that Ratko Mladic “has a case to answer”.
A legal error meant that many people found guilty of war crimes now have to undergo retrials.
Radovan Karadzic opens his defence before the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court today.
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Several Bosnian Muslims are believed to have been buried at the site 17 years ago.
The trial of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic got underway yesterday.
The trial of the former Bosnian Serb commander was suspended over a month ago because of ‘irregularities’ in how evidence was handled.
The trial had originally been suspended on 17 May and was due to resume next week.
Four former soldiers have been convicted of crimes against humanity for their part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic claimed he could not have foreseen the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered in a round of ethnic cleansing.
Lawyers for the so-called Butcher of Bosnia were refused their request for a six-month delay.
“You can’t even call it a fig leaf – a fig leaf covers the whole genatalia, this only covers the tip.”
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The Bosnian Serb commander is accused of leading a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Momcilo Perisic, a former Chief of General Staff of the Yugoslav army, has been jailed for 27 years for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovinia and Croatia in the 1990s.
Hadzic has been on the run for eight years and is sought for atrocities stemming from the Balkan’s War in the 90s.
This is the week that was, in pictures.
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In a groundbreaking ruling, the Dutch state has been found responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men during the bloody Srebrenica massacre of 1995 – which saw 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed by Serb forces.
The man accused of carrying out horrendous war crimes in Bosnia in the 1990s has again refused to enter a plea but judges at The Hague have done so on his behalf.
But what happens if he refuses to attend tomorrow’s war crimes tribunal hearing?
The former Bosnian Serb military commander has undergone health checks and placed in isolation ahead of his trial for alleged genocide at The Hague.
Serbian prosecutor says suspected war criminal and former general Ratko Mladic will be extradited to The Hague “as soon as possible”.
Mladic’s son claimed today that “whatever was done in Srebrenica, he has nothing to do with it”.
The war crimes suspect was living as a fugitive in a Serbian village. He will now be extradited to The Hague to stand trial.
ANY SIGNIFICANT LEVEL of flu in the community could lead to the Covid-19 test and trace system being overwhelmed as people present with similar symptoms, health experts say.
Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry told TheJournal.ie that because flu and Covid-19 both seriously impact on vulnerable and older groups, health officials want to “avoid a twin attack on the same populations” in Ireland.
He said the focus will also be on keeping down the level of flu among those who will not be seriously ill with it, but who may pass it on to those vulnerable groups.
This is why the flu vaccine without charge has been extended to a number of other groups this year, including to children aged two to 12. Previously this applied only to those over the age of 70.
So, today we want to know: Do you plan to get the flu vaccine this upcoming winter?
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