Saponja slobodan milosevic biography

It was Saponja, a member of the famous Bosna-montaza soccer club from Prijedor; Djemo had once known him quite well.
Zoran Djindjic was the Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro from 2001 to.
Of the many curiosities of the Slobodan Milosevic trial, one of the biggest is the operation of his legal team.

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Serbia: Security Chief Dogged by War Crimes Claims

The controversial appointment of an army officer accused of war crimes as the new head of the army's security service is coming under increasing scrutiny.

Disquiet has focused on allegations that Momir Stojanovic broke Geneva conventions during the conflict in Kosovo, by ordering a massacre of ethnic Albanians.

The government, however, is believed to have selected Stojanovic in March in the hope that he will accelerate the reform of the army and cut the secret ties known to exist between intelligence officers and the former Bosnian Serb military leader, General Ratko Mladic.

Government sources argue that he is the only man at the moment who is loyal to the government and who might succeed to disrupt those secret communications, eventually leading to Mladic's transfer to the Hague tribunal.

Foreign governments continue to press the Serbian-Montenegrin authorities over Mladic, and the case remains a bar to Serbia's rapprochement with the West and to the wider military and economic integration process.

Mladic's extraditi

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Bosnia War Crimes: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and U.S. Policy

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CRS Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web
Bosnia War Crimes: The International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and U.S.
Policy
Updated April 23, 1998
(name redacted)
Legislative Attorney
American Law Division
Raphael Perl
Specialist in International Affairs
(name redacted)
Specialist in European Affairs
Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Congressional Research Service˜The Library of Congress

ABSTRACT
This report provides background and analysis on the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It describes the origins of the Tribunal; its authority and
powers; its financing; and its recent activities and problems. The report discusses U.S.
policy on the ICTY; the relationship between the Tribunal and the NATO-led Stabilization
Force (SFOR) in Bosnia; and Congressional action on the issue. The report also deals with
the impact of the Tribunal's work on the Bosnian peace process as a whole.

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Regional Report: Milosevic's Curious Legal Advisers

Of the many curiosities of the Slobodan Milosevic trial, one of the biggest is the operation of his legal team.

Officially, of course, Milosevic has no lawyers: having declared that he fails to recognise the court, he conducts his own defence.

Yet behind the scenes, a powerful group of Belgrade lawyers is working for him. Milosevic is in constant contact with these men by phone, email and fax.

Some would argue that they’re more of a personal propaganda team than legal counsel, dealing more with attacks on the tribunal and its staff and backers than the intricacies of the legal jousting played out in The Hague's Courtroom Number One.

These lawyers – who include Zdenko Tomanovic, Dragoslav Ognjanovic, Momo Raicevic, Branimir Gugl, Veselin Cerovic - first started working for Milosevic when he was arrested on April 2, 2001 and charged with financial crimes.

He never went on trial, though. Instead, to the furious opposition of the then-Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic was spirited away to face war cri