The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office dismissed in a statement on Monday the claims about the country’s alleged list of 340 Croats wanted for war crimes. The alleged list contained the names of Croatian citizens who committed in the city of Vukovar, eastern Croatia, during the 1990s.
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EULEX indicts war crimes suspects
January 8th, 2011 |
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EULEX Spokeswoman Irina Gudeljević says that the EULEX prosecutor has confirmed the indictment against former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Sabit Geci and Riza Alija are charged with war crimes committed in 1999.
Criminal groups at war, police director says
January 6th, 2011 |
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Serbian Police Director Milorad Veljović has stated that the most powerful criminal organizations in Serbia are currently at war.
“These organizations have been involved in drug and cigarette trafficking, as well as murders and money laundering, which was done through offshore companies and then used to buy government companies in Serbia,†he told daily Blic.
Prosecutor on war crimes, political pressure
January 4th, 2011 |
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Serbia’a war crimes prosecutor believes that “there is no policy that would stand behind a man who took part in something like human organ trafficking”.
Vladimir VukÄević spoke for B92 on Tuesday, and said that he previously thought “politics” could not influence criminal proceedings, but that he has been convinced to believe otherwise.
“Israel preparing for major war”
January 4th, 2011 |
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One of the U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks shows that Israel was preparing for a major war in the Middle East.
The cable was published in an article in Norway’s Aftenposten daily, the BBC in Serbian is reporting.
Only 35% of Americans Support the Afghanistan War
January 3rd, 2011 |
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Despite the government’s best efforts at scaring people with overblown hypeAnd at labeling people opposed to war as terrorists or traitors And the government and media’s attempt to sell the war as being necessary, good and patrioticOnly 35% of all Am…
War Causes Inflation … And Inflation Allows The Government to Start Unnecessary Wars
January 2nd, 2011 |
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War almost always causes inflation.As liberal economist James Galbraith wrote in 2004:War causes inflation. Every major war in the past century brought inflation to some degree. And so did two upheavals in the Middle East, the Yom K…
Man arrested for war crimes against Serbs
December 31st, 2010 |
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Swedish authorities have arrested Bosnian citizen Zemir KovaÄević who is suspected of war crimes against Serb civilians in 1992 in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Swedish prosecution did not release any details of the indictment.
Luxury goods: The second handbag war
December 29th, 2010 |
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Bernard Arnault lays siege to Hermes and its founding family
ON HIS way to creating the world’s biggest luxury group and becoming the richest man in France, Bernard Arnault has made a career of swallowing grand, family-owned businesses. Over the years he has picked many a fight with founders of luxury firms, or their heirs, who were unwilling to sell. He also fought bitterly and unsuccessfully with Francois Pinault, his archrival, over the takeover of Gucci, an Italian fashion house. The French press called it the “handbag war”.
Three months ago Mr Arnault began what may become his longest, most spectacular takeover battle yet. At the end of October his group, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), announced that it had amassed a 17.1% stake in Hermes, a family-owned maker of silk scarves and expensive handbags. On December 21st LVMH said it had increased its stake to 20.2%. …
War crimes suspect arrested in Montenegro
December 29th, 2010 |
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War Crimes Prosecution has announced that Milojko Nikolić, suspected of participating in a war crime in Kosovo in 1999, was arrested in Montenegro.
It is suspected that Nikolić as a member of the “Jackals†unit took part in the killing of 44 Albanian civilians in the village of Ćuška near Peć.
Daily: Organs removed at KLA hospitals
December 25th, 2010 |
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Surgeries to remove victims’ organs were performed at health centers and hospitals which used to treat KLA members during the war, daily Politika writes.
The daily has learned that these are some of the results of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution’s investigation.
Prosecutor says ex-paramilitary arrested
December 24th, 2010 |
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War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir VukÄević says one of the main suspects for the war crime in the village of ĆuÅ¡ka in Kosovo and Metohija has been arrested. Zoran Obradović was a member of a paramilitary group called Å akali during the 1999 war. He was arrested in Germany.
War crimes prosecutor criticized
December 23rd, 2010 |
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Opposition MPs today in parliament criticized War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir VukÄević for his handling of the Kosovo organs case. Serb Progressive Party (SNS) MPs demanded on Thursday VukÄević’s resignation after his comments regarding the report on KLA’s trafficking of organs taken from kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo and Albania, submitted by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty.
War crimes trial for paramilitaries
December 20th, 2010 |
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The trial for nine former members of a paramilitary unit accused for war crimes against civilians in the village of Ćuška near Peć in Kosovo starts today.
The trial will be held before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade High Court.
Closing arguments in KLA war crimes case
December 16th, 2010 |
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The War Crimes Chamber of the Higher Court in Belgrade will today hear closing arguments in the trial of the Gnjilane Group of the so-called KLA. A total of 17 ethnic Albanians have been charged with torture and vicious murder of Serb and other civilians in the town of Gnjilane, eastern Kosovo, in 1999.
Financial Analyst: This Is The First Recession Since the End of the FIRST World War Where Government Help Isn’t Trickling Down to the American People
December 16th, 2010 |
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Banking expert Christopher Whalen (hailed by Nouriel Roubini as one of the leading independent analysts of the U.S. banking system) told the American Enterprise Institute that this is the first recession going back at least to the end of the first Worl…
K. Albanians arrested for war crimes
December 14th, 2010 |
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Two ethnic Albanians have been placed under arrest today on suspicion that they committed war crimes against civilians. The arrest was carried out by EULEX and Kosovo police, KPS, in the area of the town of Prizren.
Documents confirm U.S. protected “useful” Nazis
December 13th, 2010 |
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A report reveals fresh details on how US intelligence officers protected a number of Nazi war criminals after World War II, Deutsche Welle reports. Facing the Cold War, the US became less interested in punishing Nazi criminals as early as 1946.
Investigation against suspected war criminal
December 13th, 2010 |
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The Croatian prosecution has submitted a request for an investigation to be launched against Tomislav MerÄep. The 58-year-old wartime deputy Croatian interior minister was arrested on Friday in Zagreb, and placed in two-day custody.