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...NETHERLANDS Mea Culpa An independent report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre blamed Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic for the deaths of up to 8,000 Muslim men, but it also strongly criticized Dutch peacekeeping forces and political leaders. After a few days' reflection, the entire Dutch government resigned. Prime Minister Wim Kok said the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility in the name of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica...
BOSNIA Hide and Seek Twice last week NATO troops tried and failed to arrest former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic in a village in the mountainous region of eastern Bosnia. Acting on intelligence that Karadzic was hiding in Celebici, hundreds of troops sealed off the area, cut phone lines and forcibly entered homes, schools and churches. Karadzic is wanted by U.N. war-crimes prosecutors in the Hague on charges of genocide, including the Srebrenica massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims...
HORROR SHOW At a refugee center for widows of men lost in the massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnian Muslim Fatima Begovic, whose husband and sons died there, sobs as she watches Slobodan Milosevic defend himself at his trial for crimes against humanity--the first ever for a head of state. The former Yugoslav President, accused of directing the genocide of 300,000 non-Serbs and driving millions from their homelands, scornfully blamed NATO and claimed he was the real victim. "It is all lies," he fumed. "The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying...
...Bosnia's numerous call-in quiz shows, nor is it the state lottery. It's the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo's hotline for information on the whereabouts of Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the two top wartime leaders of Bosnian Serbs who are now Europe's most-wanted war crimes suspects. the whole story...
...from a much earlier stage than they acknowledged. He'll claim they acknowledged to him that the region faced a threat of Islamic terrorism. Here he's referring to the fact that more than 1,000 fighters from all over the Arab and Muslim world came to help the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs. They called themselves "mujahedeen," and many of them were itinerant veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Serb leaders at the time described their fight as one against terrorism, and even today pro-Milosevic propagandists use the term "Taliban" to describe their enemies in Bosnia...