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THE HAGUE — Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, by a United Nations tribunal on Thursday for leading a campaign of terror against civilians that included the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 and the nearly four-year siege of Sarajevo. Mr. Karadzic, 70, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia convicted Mr. Karadzic of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre, which aimed to kill “every able-bodied male” in the town and systematically exterminate the Bosnian Muslim community...

Hague court grants Kosovo ex-PM provisional release 06 Jun 2005 15:34:30 GMT AMSTERDAM, June 6 (Reuters) - The U.N. tribunal in The Hague said on Monday it had decided to provisionally release former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pending his war crimes trial. Haradinaj is the most senior former Kosovo guerrilla to be indicted by the tribunal for alleged atrocities in the 1998-99 separatist war against Serb forces. He is considered a hero by many Kosovo Albanians. A former regional commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Haradinaj surrendered to the U.N. tribunal in March, winning praise for his prompt compliance...

Helsinki -- Monday – Finnish forensic expert Helena Ranta has accused the UN tribunal in The Hague of ignoring indications that heavy fighting had taken place in Racak between Serb forces and Kosovo Albanian guerrillas in January 1999, before international investigators claimed to have uncovered a massacre in the Kosovo village. Ranta, who headed the European Union forensic team assigned to the village, told Berliner Zeitung she had received evidence at the time that several Serbs soldiers had also been killed. The alleged massacre of 45 ethnic Albanians in Racak on January 15, 1999, outraged the international community. Just two...

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Despite poor health, former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic will soon be handed over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, the Serbian prime minister said Thursday. Milutinovic has agreed to turn himself in to The Hague court, which charged him with war crimes during a government crackdown against Kosovo Albanians in 1999, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic told The Associated Press. "Milutinovic's departure to The Hague will be voluntary," Djindjic said. He said Milutinovic will travel to the Netherlands "in the next few days" without state security escorts. Also Thursday, newspaper reports quoted Yugoslav Foreign...