Who sold Gaddafi his guns?Arms sales to Libya in the five years proceeding the recent conflict came mostly came from European nations, including Italy ($432m), Serbia ($67m), and the UK ($57m), reports NAJ Taylor.
Serbia
Will Mladic be the cue for EU-Serbia embrace?
The theory that Ratko Mladic was resigned to his extradition and prosecution for war crimes and would probably go quietly was dented a little when his lawyers lodged an appeal to Serbia’s war crimes court.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Mladic’s deserved reckoning and the theatre of EU justice
Mladić deserves a reckoning, but the whole process of EU justice will simply extend the theatre — since any fair assessment should have put Croatia’s Franjo Tudjman and his epigones in the dock too.
Our shrinking asylum seeker problem
While Australia’s asylum seeker numbers fall, Labor is ensuring it will always lose the debate by remaining wedded to mandatory detention.
Kosovo’s independence: a battle lost
The UN has upheld Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. The battle for Kosovo may have been lost, writes Simon Tisdall, but this legal decision sets an important precedent for other separatist groups.
Can we forgive the unforgivable?
When a government has a scarred past — the stolen generation in Australia, the massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbs — how important is a public apology? asks Binoy Kampmark.
An audience with Radovan Karadzic. Location: The Hague
The Hague has a long history of overseeing international law, the latest being the trial of Serbian Radovan Karadzic, accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Too bad he was a no show, writes Grant Doyle.
