Two Bosnian Serbs accused of atrocities at a prison camp in 1992 have agreed to plead guilty to a charge of persecution as a crime against humanity, a spokesman for the United Nations war-crimes tribunal said.
The plea bargain, in which Steven Todorovic pleaded guilty to a single charge of persecution in exchange for having 26 other charges withdrawn, ended a legal standoff that had threatened to incapacitate the United Nations war crimes tribunal meeting in The Hague.
Mr. Seselj's trial on charges of persecution, extermination, murder and torture of Croats, Bosnian Muslims and other non-Serbs in the early 1990s began without him on Monday.
Mr. Aziz's death sentence followed convictions on charges of persecution against members of the religious Shiite Dawa Party, whose members include Iraq's current prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
In relation to the charges of persecution and other inhumane acts the prosecutor cites the physical violence and destruction of property that was committed by the Mungiki members against the ODM supporters as being "other inhumane acts" which constitute crimes against humanity.
It said that Mr. Qaddafi's trial could start in about four months, and it would include charges of murder, persecution and financial crimes.
The suicide took place as a United Nations fact-finding team was visiting a Buddhist pagoda on the other side of town to investigate charges of religious persecution in South Vietnam.
Djakovica is the site of two of seven massacres that figure in the tribunal's indictment of Mr. Milosevic and his four allies on charges of murder, persecution and deportation.
At the trial itself, the judge said that he was considering a plea to let them go home for the festival, which starts on April 20th.The judge's savvy public relations, intended to head off potential charges of religious persecution, was balanced by an announcement from Iran's foreign-ministry spokesman that the views of other countries would have no impact on the verdict.
Each faces four charges: crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes and a combined charge of murder, torture and religious persecution, co-investigating judge You Bunleng told a news conference.
Through the intervention of Theodor Heuss and Joachim Tiburtius, he was able to receive more money from the Berlin office in charge of compensating victims of Nazi persecution; this, and a literary prize from the Mainz Academy in the sum of 10,000 DM helped finance his growing medical expenses.
