International justice for Africa?

If you do not understand the politics, you do not understand the basics of the concept.

Serb assassin’s shadowy associates

Testimony by investigator Paul Hendrikse has linked Serbian fugitive Dobrosav Gavric to mobsters, but his lawyer says the Hawks are "throwing mud".

The intentional tourist: Assassin fears assassination

A Serbian fugitive living in SA fears he will be murdered if he returns home to face justice for slaying "Arkan", a Serbian gangster and war criminal.

Underworld boss Beeka’s murder mystery deepens

The unofficial identification of the man present with Cyril Beeka when he was shot in a drive-by assassination has deepened the mystery of his murder.

Serb president urges restraint after Kosovo attack

Serb President Boris Tadic have urged Kosovo Serbs to refrain from violence, hours after ethnic Serbs torched a border crossing in the north.

Serbia captures Ratko Mladic

Serbian police have arrested Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader wanted by the UN for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war.

Mladic arrest only one step in healing Balkan wounds

The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a major step towards reconciliation in the Balkans, analysts have said, but the region is still a long way from healing.

WWII guerrilla execution site located

Serbian officials say they have located the site where a World War II royalist guerrilla was executed as a traitor by postwar communist authorities.

Serbia urges UN members not to recognise Kosovo

Serbian President Boris Tadic appeals to the majority of UN countries who have not recognised Kosovo's independence to maintain that position.

Serbia and SA in tit-for-tat deal

In a tit-for-tat agreement, the SA government has secured the support of Serbia in SA's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Serbia apologises for Srebrenica massacre

Serbian lawmakers issued an apology to the Bosnian Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Wednesday, ending years of denial.

Martyr or monster?

Despite overwhelming evidence of genocide, the ‘butcher of Bosnia’ denies all. Ian Traynor reports.

Serb prosecutor expects Mladic arrest this year

The chief war crimes prosecutor in Serbia expects genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to be arrested this year due to progress in the hunt.

Nato cluster bombs still threaten Serbs

Unexploded cluster bombs threaten thousands of Serbian civilians almost 10 years after they were dropped during Nato's 1999 air war over Kosovo.

Kosovo state inevitable, says Nobel laureate

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said on Friday that Serbia would have no option but to accept the new Balkan state.

Belgrade under pressure to deliver general

The Bevanda restaurant sits at the end of a residential street in Belgrade. It was here that a man realised that a fellow diner was Ratko Mladic.

Karadzic will finally pay his debt

Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob, a former peacekeeper, recalls a meeting with the Bosnian Serb wartime leader.

The healer on the 73 bus

Change in Belgrade’s political climate ended 12 years on the run for Radovan Karadzic, Europe’s most wanted man.

The healer on the bus -- Europe's most wanted man

The old man on the 73 bus looked like a monk. His bushy white beard obscured half his face and his long white hair was tied in a top-knot.

Tyrant buried in his garden

It was not the grandiloquent send-off he might have hoped for. Instead of a triumphal state funeral, Slobodan Milosevic -- the "Butcher of the Balkans", and the man who brought war and slaughter to former Yugoslavia -- was ignominiously buried on Saturday in his back garden, next to his favourite lime tree.

Milosevic's birthplace: 'We'll water his grave with tears'

Feelings are running high in the Serbian town of Pozarevac, whose most famous son, former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, is coming home to rest in peace. As preparations step up for a funeral on Saturday under the gaze of the world, 500 people from his Socialist Party gathered in the local cultural centre and roundly accused the UN war crimes court where he died of killing him.

Serbia marks five years since Milosevic overthrow

Serbia on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary since the ouster of then strongman Slobodan Milosevic, with his democratic successors expressing regret over the slow pace of change since the massive popular uprising. "There are very few in Serbia today who can be satisfied with the results recorded by Serbia since" Milosevic's overthrow, said Serbia's current pro-Western president, Boris Tadic.

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