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...signs of that so far. In the capital, there are tensions between the two communities, but neither is as radicalized as their brethren in Tetovo. Obviously, this could change, but so far you're seeing nothing like the willingness to take up arms that existed in Croatia and Bosnia at the start of the wars there. So there are a few more reasons for optimism, but only a few. The rebels are still there despite official claims that they're disappearing, and they're probably going to pop up again in some way over the next couple of days...
...tribunal opened their case against three Bosnian Serb camp commanders by saying they played a role in a larger "genocidal" plan to destroy Muslims and Croats. It's alleged that hundreds of non-Serbs were killed, tortured and raped and thousands were held prisoner in three camps in northwest Bosnia's Prijedor region...
TIME recently spoke to a former Red Beret, now in hiding, who described joining the unit just before it overran his hometown of Mostar in southeastern Bosnia on a cool fall day in 1991: "They took about a hundred Muslim and Croat civilians--men and women--from a shelter and lined them up on the banks of the Neretva River," recalled the heavily scarred Bosnian Serb, now 28. "Standing on the other side, I watched as five of the Red Berets executed them all. Some were shot; others they knifed or bludgeoned with rifle butts as they screamed for mercy...
Some 200,000 people were killed in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, most of them in Bosnia. No one knows how many died as a result of atrocities. Nor is it known how many of the tens of thousands of Serbs who fought knowingly participated in war crimes, though hundreds certainly did. So far, the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague has indicted 49 Serbs from throughout the former Yugoslavia, 15 of whom are now thought to be at large in Serbia...
...reach his students just by preaching to them. "You can't lecture someone into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...