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...HAGUE: An international war crimes tribunal has for the first time indicted Bosnian Muslims as suspected war criminals. Beset by charges of bias against Serbs -- 46 of the 57 indicted so far have been Serbs -- the tribunal is now opening investigations into Bosnian Muslim war activities. "It is good that the tribunal has finally included Muslims," says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "But the Hague court was never biased. They have been doing the best they can with what little resources and information they have." Zejnil Delalic, a former Bosnian government army officer, was indicted for allowing guards under his authority...
According to Okasi, part of the blame for racial bias in the legal system rests with the press, which, she said, "perpetrates stereotypes of the black male...
LITTLE ROCK: The Whitewater trial of Governor Jim Guy Tucker and two former business associates of President Clinton began Monday with the defense complaining of racial bias and the prosecution accusing the trio of plotting "perfect crimes." Tucker, James McDougal and Susan McDougal are charged with arranging almost $3 million in loans and lying about how they were going to use the money. The trial opened with Tucker's attorneys claiming prosecutors had removed one woman because of her race. Federal Judge George Howard Jr. agreed and reinstated the woman, making the jury nine whites and three blacks. After...
...most disheartening piece of this whole episode for me, though, was the lack of female support I received. Not one message was publicly sent out over the e-mail list to refute the bias of the statement against me. This combination of gender-based weapons and silence so bothered me that my Undergraduate Council express train was thrown off track. For the first time, it became devastatingly apparent what the glass ceiling meant to me and, moreover, that I was dumbfounded as to what to do about...
...soldiers, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, who are now being held by the Bosnian Muslims pending their possible indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal. In a rare press conference, Serb Lt. General Milan Gvero accused the Muslims of "jeopardizing peace," and accused NATO of pro-Muslim bias, "supporting the option of war". Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, one of the area's chief power brokers, backs the Bosnian decision. If his support for the peace plan is wavering, it could collapse. According to Time's Mark Thompson: "The Serbs and Muslims are backing away from the peace accord...