It’s been a Bad Week for..

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This article was published 17/04/2010 (5741 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Radovan Karadzic,

…the former Bosnian Serb leader.

After months of delays and legal wrangling, Karadzic’s trial resumed in The Hague, where he faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The trial began in October, but recessed almost immediately when Karadzic demanded more time to mount his defence. He is accused of orchestrating atrocities perpetrated by Bosnian Serb troops and paramilitary thugs to carve out an ethnically pure Serb ministate in Bosnia. He faces a life sentence if convicted.

Stanley McChrystal,

…the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

U.S. soldiers opened fire early in the week on a bus in Kandahar province, killing four people and wounding 18 — exactly the kind of situation McChrystal hopes to avoid. Although far more civilians are killed by the Taliban than by western troops, the reaction is invariably explosive when NATO soldiers misstep. McChrystal has a short window of opportunity to stabilize Kandahar before the U.S. reviews its Afghan operations at the end of the year, so the incident could not have happened at a worse time or in a worse place.

Toyota Motor Corp.

Its reputation already battered by problems on some of its vehicles with unintended acceleration, and by its lack of alacrity in addressing the problem, the Japanese carmaker took another body blow with a don’t-buy recommendation in Consumer Reports magazine for its Lexus GX 460. Testers found problems with the GX 460’s stability that they said made rollovers more likely. Consumer Reports does not issue such notices lightly — this is its first since 2001 — and Toyota had little recourse other than to take the vehicle off the market.