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...failure to arrest Mladic in particular has been laid at the door of Serb authorities, since he is believed to have found refuge in Serbia under the protection of that country's military intelligence service. Mladic is wanted for his role in the shelling of Sarajevo, and also faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity over the murder of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. But for many Serbs, he is still considered a war hero. Initially, Mladic found protection under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, but even after he was forced from office...
...acrimony of many of her previous visits to Belgrade, she said this one went better than any since she took the job in 1999. Cooperation by the Serbian authorities is considered the key to apprehending Mladic; he and former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic have eluded arrest in the Balkans since their initial indictment 12 years...
...Human-rights groups say the spate of public denunciations is part of a political crackdown that is the harshest in 20 years-and one that the government wants everyone to know about. In the past, Hanoi would often arrest and prosecute its opponents with little fanfare. But during the current wave of cases, foreign and local journalists have been allowed to view court hearings via televised feed, while the state-controlled media has run lengthy screeds against the defendants. This about-face is a reaction by authorities to modern realities, says Martin Gainsborough, a political scientist and Vietnam expert...
...long as this p.r. campaign lasts, Vietnam's denouncements look set to continue, although their effectiveness may prove limited. As Dai pointed out before his arrest, most of the accusers at his denouncement were over 60, many of them war veterans: "The reason [authorities] didn't invite young people is they fear they would have laughed at the process." But as Dai well knows, Vietnam has harsher ways of dealing with dissent than a roomful of angry denouncers...
...that points to a fundamental weakness of current antibiotics. All exploit the fact that the best agents to kill bacteria come from other bacteria. Each species makes toxins that can either kill other species or arrest their growth, and existing antibiotics are modified versions of these natural defenses. But that is just the kind of biological arms race that microbes and other living things excel at adapting to. So researchers working on the next generation of antibiotics are taking advantage of new knowledge about bacterial genetics and a better understanding of the resistance process to stay one step ahead...