Karadzic Trial Q & A

Check out an interesting and informative Question and Answer piece on the upcoming Radovan Karadzic trial here.

Nepal Swears In First President

Ram Baran Yadav was sworn in as President of Nepal today after 240 years of monarchal rule. Yadav must now try to work with the Maoist party who are refusing to form a government under him. The Maoist control the most seats in the Constituent Assembly.

Karadzic, Accused War Criminal Arrested

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president, has been arrested after more than a decade of hiding. Karadzic is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war for his role in the deaths of up to 300,000 in Bosnia. He will now stand trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands.

ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Sudan's al-Bashir

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Bashir is the most senior member pursued by the court and one of few sitting heads of state ever charged by an international court. Bashir is accused of organizing genocide in Sudan. Sudanese forces and the militia they support have killed up to 35,000 people and forced 2.5 million to flee their homes. Sudan is not a member of the court and denies there is genocide.

The real test now is political, as Sudan will seek to have its allies such as Russia and China block the issuance of the warrant.

On a personal note, having successfully represented a Sudanese man obtain asylum after he watched his father murdered and then was shot himself just for being "black Africans," I hope that Bashir and his cronies are all brought to justice.