ICTY unseals Srebrenica charges against former Bosnian Serb army officer News
ICTY unseals Srebrenica charges against former Bosnian Serb army officer

[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] Friday unsealed the war crimes charges against former Bosnian Serb army captain Milorad Trbic. Trbic is charged [indictment] with crimes against humanity on the same indictment as former Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurevic [ICTY case backgrounder], who surrendered to the ICTY [JURIST report] in late March. The ICTY prosecutor alleges that Pandurevic, Trbic and others planned and ordered the attack that expelled or killed most of the Muslim members of the UN-protected Srebrenica enclave in 1995. Read the ICTY press release.

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Dreyfus convicted of treason

On December 22, 1894, Jewish French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial trial that prompted worldwide allegations of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was later cleared. Learn more about the case of Alfred Dreyfus and read an English translation of the famous public letter J'Accuse...! by novelist and Dreyfus partisan Emile Zola.

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