Family sues Bosnian war leaders

March 25, 2011

A Paris court will rule on Monday in the case of a $1.3m lawsuit against Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, currently on trial in The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Kovach family is seeking compensation for the alleged paramilitary killing of a relative and injuries suffered during the 1992 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zuhra Kovach, the mother, spoke to Al Jazeera's Tim Friend in Angers, western France. (Mar 14, 2011)

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Crimes Against Humanity

Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of human beings." They are not ... Explore this topic

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population just over 500,000 inhabitants and more than one million inhabitants including the suburbs, it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The c... Explore this topic

War Crime

A war crime is a serious violation of the laws applicable in armed conflict giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of war crimes include "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps," "the mu... Explore this topic

Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina are people of Serb ethnicity inhabiting the Balkan regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or, since the establishment of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state in the 1990s, the Serbs who have its citizenship. The Serbs are one of the three constitut... Explore this topic

Al Jazeera

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Radovan Karadžić

Radovan Karadžić is a former Bosnian Serb politician. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Karadžić, as President of the Republika Srpska, sought the direct unification of that entity with Serbia. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war... Explore this topic

Bosnian War

The Bosnian War, sometimes referred to as the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1 March 1992 and 14 December 1995. The war involved several factions. The main belligerents were the forces of the ... Explore this topic

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