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Swedish court charges man with genocide

National: 27 Dec 11
Genocide charges were filed on Monday against a 53-year-old man arrested last week at Stockholm's Bromma airport on suspicions of having taken part in the massacres in Rwanda in 1994. READ »

War crimes suspect arrested in Stockholm

National: 23 Dec 11
Swedish police have arrested a man suspected of participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He was arrested late Thursday evening at Bromma airport, just outside Stockholm. READ »

Sweden's first war crimes trial underway

National: 13 Oct 10
The trial of a 43-year-old Swedish citizen charged with torturing prisoners in Bosnia in 1992 started in Stockholm on Wednesday, the first of its kind in Sweden. READ »

Man arrested over Kosovo war crimes

National: 7 Apr 10
A man has been arrested in western Sweden on suspicion of aggravated war crimes, with an alternative charge of murder, in connection with the Kosovo war in 1999. READ »

Amnesty: 'Sweden lax on war criminals'

National: 3 Feb 09
Sweden has been strongly criticized by Amnesty International in a new report released on Tuesday. Amnesty has called on Sweden to end impunity from war crimes and review current legislation. READ »

Bildt lauds Serbia over hunt for war criminals

Politics: 9 Sep 08
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt praised Belgrade's efforts to track down war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic during a visit to Stockholm on Tuesday of his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic. READ »

Genocide suspect held near Stockholm

National: 16 Jul 08
A Rwandan man suspected of genocide and violation of international law was arrested today in the Stockholm suburb of Täby. READ »

War criminals face fresh Swedish probes

National: 4 Jul 08
Sweden's National Investigation Department has intensified the hunt for war criminals living withing the country's borders. READ »

Swedish police to launch new war crimes unit

National: 11 Sep 07
Sweden is to set up a new war crimes unit to help bring to justice the large numbers of war criminals thought to be hiding out in the country. READ »

War criminal dies in Swedish prison

National: 20 May 07
A Bosnian Serb war criminal died on Saturday in a Swedish jail. Miroslav Deronjic, 52, died a natural death, according to prison officials. READ »

War criminals face tougher investigations

National: 11 Apr 07
Sweden is to step up the fight against suspected war criminals hiding in the country, with a special war crimes unit likely to be set up by Swedish police. READ »

Foreign prisoners reject Swedish hospitality

Society: 12 Aug 05
Swedish prisons may be considered plush by many, but an increasing number of prisoners with foreign backgrounds are trying to get moved abroad. Going back to the Netherlands is popular among people convicted of drugs offences. READ »

Sweden willing to imprison more war criminals

National: 19 Jun 05
More war criminals from the former Yugoslavia could join the former Bosnian Serb president in Swedish jails, says justice minister Thomas Bodström. But Sweden is not willing to house Saddam Hussein. READ »

"Over 1,000 war criminals in Sweden"

National: 11 Mar 05
A police officer in Sweden's war crimes unit claims that there are ten times more war criminals in the country than the authorities admit. Meanwhile an investigation by Swedish Radio reveals that the Migration Board is consistently failing to report "probable war criminals" to the police. READ »


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"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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