Goran Hadzic

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Croatian city of Vukovar into the hands of the former Yugoslav army. The city was captured after a three-month siege and virtually destroyed to the ground by round-the-clock bombing. The first war crimes in Europe after the end of the Second World War were committed here.

"Milosevic's men on the ground" was the most common description of these two leading Serbian state security officials - Jovica Stanisic, chief of the interior ministry's State Security Service and his right-hand man, Franko 'Frenki' Simatovic, commander of the service's Special Operations Unit.

The UN-backed war crimes court in The Hague has decided to postpone proceedings against former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic indefinitely because he has cancer and is too ill to continue his trial.

The Hague Tribunal has officially announced that the trial of Goran Hadzic has been halted indefinitely.

Hadzic, a former political leader of ethnic Serbs in Croatia, is suffering from brain cancer.

Lawyers for war crimes defendant Goran Hadzic, who was temporarily released for cancer treatment, asked the Hague Tribunal to stop or suspend the trial because he has not long to live.

Goran Hadzic released, arrives in Serbia

BELGRADE -- Hague Tribunal (ICTY) indictee Goran Hadzic has been granted temporary release and arrived in Belgrade late on Wednesday.

The tribunal decided to release him so he could receive medical treatment, his lawyer Zoran Zivanovic has confirmed.

War crimes defendant Goran Hadzic arrived in the Serbian capital after being temporarily released by the UN court in The Hague for cancer treatment.

Hague Tribunal released Goran Hadzic on temporary freedom

Serbia is interested in joining the Turkish Stream project, Serbian Ambassador to Russia Slavenko Terzic has said.

Hadzic is a former political leader of Serbs in Croatia and has been indicted for war crimes committed in that country from 1991 until 1995.

THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has accepted an appeal by former Republika Srpska Krajina president Goran Hadzic and granted him temporary release until the end of May.

The UN-backed war crimes court in The Hague has granted Croatian Serb wartime leader Goran Hadzic, who has cancer, immediate temporary release for treatment in Serbia.