Serbian general facing war crimes charges surrenders News
Serbian general facing war crimes charges surrenders

[JURIST] Vladimir Lazarevic, a Serbian army general accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 [ICTY joint indictment], surrendered to Serbian authorities on Friday. Lazarevic, the former commander of the army's "Pristina Corps" stands accused of planning, instigating, ordering, and committing a range of crimes against Kosovo Albanians during the "ethnic cleansing" of the province and the subsequent NATO bombing campaign. Lazarevic will be transferred to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] at The Hague next week to face charges. BBC News has more.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up bus seat to white passenger

On December 1, 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action prompted a year-long boycott of the Montgomery public transit system, which only came to an end after bus segregation was ruled illegal by the federal courts. Read a brief biography of Rosa Parks from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy State Univerity, Montgomery. In 1999 Ms. Parks received the background report on the Pacifica News Network.

World AIDS Day

On December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day was observed for the first time.