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...trial. The Serbian government under President Vojislav Kostunica has resisted extraditing the former dictator to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, insisting that he be tried in Serbia for alleged crimes including corruption and abuse of power. Yet the Milosevic government’s atrocities against Muslims in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are crimes against humanity, not only against the laws of Serbia, and he should confront his accusers in the international tribunal...
...unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle and as far as Bosnia and Croatia...
...Film in New York. The project was realized with the assistance of Zarko Lausevic, a renowned Serbian stage and screen actor now in the United States. Emigrants themselves, Dimic and Lausevic partly depicted their own life stories—a political emigrant from Belgrade and an economic emigrant from Bosnia, an intellectual and a gastarbaiter—roommates in the poor suburbs of New York. The personal émigré experiences of the actors and of the audience combined to transform the play into a means of self-analysis, attempting to resolve the personal dilemmas of the Serbian emigrants...
...meanwhile, is concentrated on lowering the political temperature in Macedonia itself. "We can't fall into the trap of over-reacting and following the rebels' tracks into a broadening of the conflict," said Wolfgang Petritsch, the former E.U. negotiator on Kosovo and now the High Commissioner for Bosnia-Herzegovina. "We'll see soon enough what effect cutting off the border will have...
...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...