As reported previously the trial of accused Serbian War criminal Radovan Karadzic is set to continue. Despite the boycott of the trial's defendant, who claimed not enough time was granted for proper preparations.

There is an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning saying that Israel is committing war crimes. It is powerful, and I recommend reading the whole piece, but here is my review and some clips.

United Nations prosecutors say Croatian General Ante Gotovina led a campaign of persecution and murder of ethnic Serbs in Croatia during a 1995 military operation.

The town of Brattleboro known for its controversial public nudity laws, as well as a similar effort in 2007 to impeach President Bush, has once again gained national attention. A petition was signed by 5% of voters from the town, or 436 signatures to charge the President and Vice President of the United States with war crimes.

The head of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Agency, John Holmes, has urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on those who perpetrate or support sexual violence in war.

The trial of Serb-Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj has opened at the U.N. war crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He faces nine charges related to his use of hate speech and recruiting paramilitary groups, what prosecutors call part of his attempts to create an ethnically pure Serbian state. Lauren Comiteau is following the proceedings and reports from The Hague.

People who have been traumatized by exposure to war crimes have a tendency to choose violent means and reject nonviolent means to achieve peace, says a joint Tulane University/University of California-Berkeley study in the August 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association.

Bosnia today is laying to rest the remains of more than 450 Muslims killed 12 years ago in the Srebrenica massacre. Some 30,000 Srebrenica survivors and victims' relatives are expected to attend the ceremony and funeral at a memorial center where the remains of more than 2,400 of those killed are already buried.

Russia's envoy to the United Nations urged the UN war crimes tribunal for the Balkan conflicts to wrap up its work by the deadline set by the UN Security Council.

The European Union and Serbia have resumed talks on closer ties, ending a 13-month freeze imposed by EU authorities in response to Serbian failure to hand over fugitive war crimes suspects thought to be hiding in the country.

United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson today said the prosecution of war crimes suspects from the former Yugoslavia remains one of the priorities of the U.S. administration.

After 12 years of almost no cooperation with the Hague tribunal, Bosnian Serb police finally arrest war crimes suspect wanted by the court.