WAR CRIMES
Supreme Court justices to hear arguments of foreign victims versus companies 
Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off in a Supreme Court fight over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can haul multinational companies into American courts and try to prove they were complicit in the abuses and should pay damages. The justices will hear arguments Tuesday over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute and a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against the responsible individuals.
By Mark Sherman , February 26, 2012
Disruptive Ratko Mladic removed from hearing at UN court
A defiant Ratko Mladic plunged his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal arraignment into chaos Monday, repeatedly shouting at judges, defying their orders and refusing to enter pleas to 11 charges before the presiding judge threw him out of the hearing.
By Mike Corder , July 04, 2011
Defiant Mladic refuses to enter war crimes allegations pleas
Appearing in a U.N. courtroom at The Hague, Netherlands, and shielded by bulletproof glass 16 years after he was first indicted, former Serb army chief Ratko Mladic told the Dutch presiding judge he was "gravely ill," but would only give details of his health out of earshot of the public.
By Mike Corder , June 03, 2011
Mladic extradited to United Nations court in The Hague
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a U.N. detention unit Tuesday to await trial on genocide charges, 16 years after he was indicted in the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.
By Associated Press , May 31, 2011
Sri Lanka video shows executions, abuse of corpses
A United Nations expert called Tuesday for Sri Lanka to investigate and file charges against soldiers shown in a graphic video shooting bound, blindfolded prisoners and abusing corpses in the final days of the 1983-2009 civil war.
By Frank Jordans , May 31, 2011
Mladic extradition appeal rejected
Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic will be extradited to The Hague, Netherlands "as soon as possible," Serbia's chief war crimes prosecutor said Tuesday.
By Dusan Stojanovic and Jovana Gec , May 31, 2011
Thousands rally in Serbia to protest Mladic arrest
Thousands of demonstrators sang nationalist songs and carried banners honoring jailed former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic on Sunday as they poured into the street outside Serbia's parliament to demand the release of the war-crimes suspect, whom they consider a hero.
By Jovana Gec , May 29, 2011
Serbian police: Accused war criminal Mladic was nabbed in routine raid
It was the first visit to the village by police who have been conducting similar operations throughout Serbia for years in the hunt for Ratko Mladic, the officials said. Charged by the U.N. war crimes court with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, Mladic was last seen in public in January 2006.
By Dusan Stojanovic and Jovana Gec , May 27, 2011
NATO welcomes arrest of indicted war criminal Mladic
NATO hailed Serbia's arrest of indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic Thursday, saying he was implicated in some of the worst massacres in modern European history.
By Associated Press , May 26, 2011
Woman accused of war crimes to fight extradition
A Croatian woman will fight efforts to take her from small-town Kentucky to Bosnia to face war crimes charges accusing her of torturing prisoners two decades ago after the breakup of Yugoslavia, her public defender said Friday.
By Brett Barrouquere & Bruce Schreiner , March 18, 2011
Croatian arrested in Ky. on Bosnia torture charges
A woman wanted in Bosnia on torture charges stemming from the war following the breakup of Yugoslavia, including allegations that she forced prisoners to drink human blood and gasoline, faces extradition after being arrested in Kentucky.
By Brett Barrouquere , March 17, 2011
International court investigating North Korea
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said today he has opened an preliminary investigation into possible war crimes by North Korea resulting from its recent clashes with South Korea.
By Toby Sterling , December 06, 2010
Leaked look at war: More U.S. documents coming online
WikiLeaks says there's evidence of war crimes in documentsThe White House, Britain and Pakistan have all condemned the whistle-blowing group's release Sunday of the classified documents, one of the largest unauthorized disclosures in military history.
By Raphael Satter and Kimberly Dozier , July 26, 2010
Demjanjuk trial on Nazi death camp charges opens
A German court put John Demjanjuk on trial today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias.
By David Rising and Ryan Lucas , November 30, 2009
Sources: Guantanamo Bay prison may not be shut by January deadline
President Barack Obama may not be able to meet his stated goal of closing the much-criticized Guantanamo Bay prison by January as his administration runs into daunting legal and logistical hurdles to moving the more than 220 detainees still there.
By Jennifer Loven , September 26, 2009
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