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NATO presses for capture of Serb war crimes fugitives by end 2006

January 9, 2006 06:37:00 PM

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Monday called on Serbia and Bosnia to step up their efforts to find wanted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic , both indicted for genocide and other war...

January 5, 2006 02:53:00 PM

Lord Paddy Ashdown , the EU High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina on Thursday confiscated funds from the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) because its founder and wanted war crimes criminal Radovan Karadzic remains a fugitive. In...

January 5, 2006 01:49:00 PM

A suspected Bosnian Serb war criminal was captured by European Union EUFOR peacekeeping troops on Thursday in a firefight at the suspect's home. Dragomir Abazovic and his 12-year-old son were shot and injured , while his...

December 13, 2005 02:01:00 PM

Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that they will not sever proceedings in the Slobodan Milosevic trial . The court had been considering whether...

December 7, 2005 11:28:00 AM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday sentenced Miroslav Bralo , a former Bosnian Croat soldier, to 20 years in jail. Bralo pleaded guilty to murder, rape and torture charges...

November 29, 2005 11:33:00 AM

War crimes prosecutors and former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic were in rare agreement Tuesday in their opposition to a proposal by judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ...

November 22, 2005 02:40:00 PM

Leaders of Bosnia's three main ethnic groups Tuesday agreed to a deal on revisions to that country's constitution that would consolidate governmental power in a strong national government. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lauded the...

November 22, 2005 01:02:00 PM

Following the latest delay in the Slobodan Milosevic war crimes trial, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ) said Tuesday that it has ordered a hearing on November 29 to...

November 21, 2005 10:03:00 AM

The Bush administration is urging Bosnian leaders to revise its constitution in time for Tuesday's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Accord ending the Bosnian war. As the EU starts negotiations to prepare Bosnia...

November 18, 2005 07:55:00 AM

A Bosnian Serb court Thursday handed down its first war crimes ruling since the end of the Bosnian war in 1995 by sentencing three former Serb police officers to up to 20 years in prison for the deaths of...

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On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

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