Vol. 8 Issue 7 - Public International Law & Policy Group
Vol. 8 Issue 7 - Public International Law & Policy Group Vol. 8 Issue 7 - Public International Law & Policy Group
Karadzic had appealed to judges to further cut down his indictment or risk a drawn-out case like that of his political mentor former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, whose trial lasted more than four years before being aborted when he died in his jail cell in 2006. "This is the Tribunal's first and best opportunity to demonstrate that it has learned the lessons of the Milosevic trial," Karadzic wrote in a motion. "By approving only a limited amended indictment, the Trial Chamber will promote the interest of a fair and expeditious trial for all concerned." But in approving the new indictment, trial judges said they were satisfied the changes, "will not have an impact that could be considered significant upon the accused's right to be tried without undue delay." Learn about PILPG’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina Return to Table of Contents Burma Burma extends detention of deputy opposition leader Agence France Presse, 2/14/09 Myanmar's military regime has extended for another year the house arrest of Tin Oo, vicechairman of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, a party spokesman said Friday. The 82-year-old Tin Oo was arrested with Suu Kyi in May 2003 after an attack on their motorcade during a political tour. He was transferred to house arrest by the ruling junta the following year. "We have been informed that the authorities have extended Tin Oo's house arrest for another year," Nyan Win, a spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, told AFP. The NLD launched a name-signing campaign calling for the release of political prisoners including Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo on Thursday, the 62nd anniversary of Myanmar's Union Day. Aung San Suu Kyi also remains under arrest at her house in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city. She has spent most of the last 19 years under detention by the junta that has ruled the country since 1962. Her NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990 that the junta refused to recognize.
The military regime has promised to hold elections in 2010, but critics have dismissed the polls as a sham. The regime has also handed out heavy jail terms to a number of prodemocracy activists in recent months. UN human rights envoy visits Burma's Karen state Associate Press, 2/15/09 A U.N human rights envoy traveled Sunday to Myanmar's eastern Karen state, a diplomat said, a day after a reported attack by ethnic Karen rebels on a town there. Human rights groups have repeatedly accused Myanmar's military regime of committing atrocities against the state's ethnic Karen and rebels who have been fighting for autonomy for six decades. U.N. envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana went to the eastern state's capital, Hpa-an, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of the town into which the rebels reportedly launched four shells Saturday. Quintana, who is on a six-day mission, will evaluate the human rights situation in the state, a diplomat said on condition of anonymity, citing protocol. It was not immediately clear what allegations Quintana was investigating or whom he would meet in Hpa-an, 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the country's main city, Yangon. On Saturday, rebels from the Karen National Union launched four mortar shells into the town of Myawaddy, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported. No casualties were reported. The newspaper said two shells landed near a hotel and a monastery. Two more landed outside of the town, it said. The KNU is the only major ethnic rebel group that has not concluded a peace agreement with Myanmar's military government. David Thaw, a spokesman for the KNU in neighboring Thailand, could not immediately be reached for comment. The military has ruled Myanmar since 1962. The United Nations and human rights groups say over the years the military has burned villages, killed civilians and committed other atrocities against the Karen and other ethnic minorities. Quintana's visit comes less than two weeks after a visit by U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari and follows a judicial crackdown on pro-democracy activists. There have been no signs of progress since Gambari's visit, which was aimed at promoting democracy and securing the freedom of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been under house arrest for more than 13 of the last 19 years.
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The military regime has promised to hold elections in 2010, but critics have dismissed the<br />
polls as a sham. The regime has also handed out heavy jail terms to a number of prodemocracy<br />
activists in recent months.<br />
UN human rights envoy visits Burma's Karen state<br />
Associate Press, 2/15/09<br />
A U.N human rights envoy traveled Sunday to Myanmar's eastern Karen state, a diplomat<br />
said, a day after a reported attack by ethnic Karen rebels on a town there.<br />
Human rights groups have repeatedly accused Myanmar's military regime of committing<br />
atrocities against the state's ethnic Karen and rebels who have been fighting for autonomy for<br />
six decades.<br />
U.N. envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana went to the eastern state's capital, Hpa-an, about 70 miles<br />
(110 kilometers) northwest of the town into which the rebels reportedly launched four shells<br />
Saturday.<br />
Quintana, who is on a six-day mission, will evaluate the human rights situation in the state, a<br />
diplomat said on condition of anonymity, citing protocol.<br />
It was not immediately clear what allegations Quintana was investigating or whom he would<br />
meet in Hpa-an, 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the country's main city, Yangon.<br />
On Saturday, rebels from the Karen National Union launched four mortar shells into the town<br />
of Myawaddy, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported. No casualties were reported.<br />
The newspaper said two shells landed near a hotel and a monastery. Two more landed<br />
outside of the town, it said.<br />
The KNU is the only major ethnic rebel group that has not concluded a peace agreement with<br />
Myanmar's military government.<br />
David Thaw, a spokesman for the KNU in neighboring Thailand, could not immediately be<br />
reached for comment.<br />
The military has ruled Myanmar since 1962. The United Nations and human rights groups<br />
say over the years the military has burned villages, killed civilians and committed other<br />
atrocities against the Karen and other ethnic minorities.<br />
Quintana's visit comes less than two weeks after a visit by U.N. special envoy Ibrahim<br />
Gambari and follows a judicial crackdown on pro-democracy activists.<br />
There have been no signs of progress since Gambari's visit, which was aimed at promoting<br />
democracy and securing the freedom of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The<br />
Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been under house arrest for more than 13 of the last 19 years.
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