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...dead as who didn't. The paramilitary leader known as Arkan, gunned down along with two others Saturday in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental hotel, had a long and brutal criminal history that included time as the leader of the infamous Tiger militia that terrorized civilians in Bosnia and Croatia. So the questions begin: Was the attack some bit of gangland retribution from one of Arkan's many shady associates? Or was the hit ordered by someone in Slobodan Milosevic's government who didn't want Arkan testifying before the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal...
...Anastasijevic. "A lot of current military and police officers are potentially implicated in war crimes, and the new government can't afford to put these people in a corner." Still, the result will have a positive effect on the Balkan regional dynamic. "The most immediate change may occur in Bosnia, where the Bosnian Croat hardliners will lose support from Zagreb and that will help the Dayton peace process," says Anastasijevic. "The big loser may be Slobodan Milosevic, who worked with Tudjman to dismember Bosnia and whom it suited to have an authoritarian nationalist neighbor as a weapon with which...
...than were others, and that God, in turn, spoke to a selected few. Throw in social Darwinism, and by the time the 20th century was under way, Romanticism led directly to Dachau, Auschwitz, the Gulags, the hills of skulls in Cambodia and most recently the fields of graves in Bosnia...
Perhaps most tragically, the radical and implacable nationalism of Tudjman and Milosevic contributed strongly to the disintegration and bloodbath that occurred in the neighboring republic of Bosnia. With their insistence that all Croats or all Serbs be united in one unified, ethnically pure state, they and other narrow-minded leaders tore apart communities in Bosnia that had peacefully coexisted for decades...
Unfortunately, the extreme nationalists carried the day with their hateful rhetoric and destructive politics, and unleashed the ethnic violence which so horrified the world in Bosnia and still bleeds today in Kosovo. Tudjman deserves respect as a head of state, and for his role in creating a new country, no mean feat under any circumstances. But he does share with many others a great responsibility for the conflagration that shattered so many millions of lives in the former Yugoslavia, and it is entirely comprehensible that the West viewed his passing with reservations...