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On 3 June 2005 I sat in the Channel 4 newsroom watching a video of six young Bosnian Muslim men being taunted and then murdered in cold blood by members of a Serb militia called the Scorpions in a village near Srebrenica ten years earlier. Their paramilitary tormentors sneered at their captives; they smoked cigarettes…
United Nations judges have upheld the convictions of the former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic for masterminding genocide and other crimes during the Bosnian war. His appeal was dismissed “in its entirety” by the court in the Hague, meaning he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
We spoke to Baroness Arminka Helic, who arrived in the UK as a refugee from the Bosnian war more than a quarter of a century ago.
This probably won’t come as a surprise but I’m not a big fan of camping. With the exception of a few nights in my friend’s garden when we were 6, and a night in the Lake District in the cubs my experience of camping has been of there being no choice. Filming an Indian earthquake, the Bosnian war, Orangemen camped at Drumcree, a South African slum – that sort of thing. Unpleasant (if fascinating) experiences, on the whole. I’d rather be in a hotel. So I am full of admiration for people who camp on cold streets to protest. I just wish I knew what they wanted, then we could work out whether or not we agree with them.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a “huge moment”, former Prime Minister Tony Blair tells Channel 4 News, as the 16-year hunt for the Bosnian war crimes suspect draws to an end.
Lindsey Hilsum
Radovan Karadzic wants a Hague court to believe he is a man of peace. But what matters, says Lindsey Hilsum, is that the tribunal leaves us with a definitive version of what happened in the former Yugoslavia.
A Serbian court rejects an appeal against the extradition of Ratko Mladic, allowing the former Bosnian-Serb general to be tried in the Hague for war crimes.
As Ratko Mladic is deemed fit to stand trial at The Hague, the Serbian Interior Minister tells Channel 4 News his arrest was “the same as the Americans finding bin Laden”.
Ratko Mladic is fit to be extradited to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, according to a judge. Mladic’s lawyer says he will appeal the decision on Monday.
Arrested in Serbia, Ratko Mladic was indicted for genocide after the 1995 slaughter of around 8,000 Muslim men at Srebrenica, in Bosnia.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic – indicted for his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre – is a significant moment in Balkan history. Channel 4 News looks at why.
Channel 4 News obtains exclusive footage from the “closed off”corner of northern Sri Lanka, showing evidence of camps, repression and abuse, ahead of the publication of the UN’s report on war crimes.
Dr Dragan Dabic, the erstwhile silver-bearded new age guru of Uri Gagarin Street, New Belgrade (until he was exposed last summer as the former Bosnian Serb leader and alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic), is back in Courtroom One at The Hague this afternoon at 14:15 local time. His reappearance coincides with the reappearance in London…
The Bosnian general who ordered the slaughter of thousands of Muslim men and boys in the early 1990s has been found guilty of genocide. But Ratko Mladic didn’t hear the verdict as he had been thrown out of the war crimes court room for shouting abuse. He was sentenced to life for organising the massacre…
Hate crime across the UK had gone up 46% in the two weeks either side of the Brexit vote, compared to the same period last year.