COURTSIDE: Plavsic Case
The tribunal allows Plavsic to return to Belgrade pending the start of her trial.
The tribunal allows Plavsic to return to Belgrade pending the start of her trial.
Prosecutors for lengthy trial of Bosnian Serb officials implicated in the ethnic cleansing of north-west Bosnia.
Defendants have always challenged the legitimacy of war crimes tribunals - and they have almost always been wrong.
The sharp increase in violence in the closing days of the fighting is likely to be the focus of exploratory investigations by the Hague war crimes court.
Concerned over several secret indictments leaked from the Bosnian Serb government, the tribunal plans to establish its own unit to track suspects.
Tribunal judges rule that Plavsic and Serbia are a safer bet than Krajisnik and Republika Srpska.
The summer intake of new indictees at The Hague included Bosnian Serb and Bosniak officers, with several cases expected to be joined.
Milosevic does in fact have lawyers, but the ones representing him in a separate action before a Dutch court mounted no better a challenge to his detention.
Facing dramatic new genocide charges, the former president countered with another round of poor political theatre, accusing the tribunal itself of illegality.
International legal team appointed to try to ensure even-handed Milosevic trial.