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...Serbian security forces. Prosecutors are also looking to expand the charges to cover other crimes, including ones committed from 1991 to 1995, during the Croatian and Bosnian wars. Though U.N. lawyers will not discuss details of the indictment and the chain of command is more difficult to establish in Bosnia, charges could include Milosevic's complicity in the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. His lawyers dismiss the case as a form of victors' justice. "The charges are political, so his defense will be political," says a lawyer, Branimir Gugl...
...FACING THE MUSIC Ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could serve life in prison for ordering the murder or expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Serbia. The first former head of state to be tried by the U.N. tribunal, he may also be implicated in the ethnic crackdowns in Croatia and Bosnia...
...United Nations' war-crimes tribunal in the Hague were waiting. "They read him his rights, we signed the papers and that was it," a Serbian official told TIME. "He never said a word. There was no fuss, no problem." He was choppered to a U.S. military base in Tuzla, Bosnia; from there a British military plane flew Milosevic to an airfield near the Hague. At around 1:30 a.m., Milosevic entered the Dutch prison where he will live for the duration of his trial as a war criminal...
...Then again, such problems may be symptomatic of the widespread denial that persists among Serbs over some of the crimes committed in their name in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, and the trial - together with the recent discovery of mass graves inside Serbia containing bodies moved from Kosovo, and an increasing willingness of witnesses to come forward - could also prove cathartic...
...balance of power. And he is suspicious of attempts to meddle in the internal business of others. In a book that drips with devastating, if understated, contempt for the Clinton Administration and all its workings, nothing provokes Kissinger's ire more than America's "humanitarian" interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo...