Word: bosnian
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...Malcolm Baldridge, who served under Ronald Reagan and died in a horseback riding accident in 1987, and Ron Brown, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who served under Bill Clinton and died in a plane crash while trying to promote economic development in the Balkans during the Bosnian war along with a slew of American executives he had brought with...
...then came the lucky break that eluded so many other Bosnian refugees. A sponsor in the United States would help bring the Tunovic family to the States. It was 1995, and Sanjin was just seven...
...with him for some of the worst horrors of modern Europe are still alive and free. The former Serb leader was not in his grave before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague called for a renewed effort to apprehend the two most wanted fugitives from the Balkan wars: Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. "Now more than ever I expect Serbia to arrest and transfer [Mladic and Karadzic] to the Hague," said Carla del Ponte, the tribunal's chief prosecutor. So far attempts to arrest the two men by both Serb authorities and nato peacekeepers have been...
...senior security official says that 30 active or "recently retired" security officers involved in protecting Mladic have been identified. Others are skeptical of such claims. Kandic, the human-rights investigator, says Serbia may never hand over Mladic, since his testimony might confirm Serb guilt for crimes during the Bosnian war. Draskovic, who escaped two assassination attempts during Milosevic's time in power, says he is unimpressed by the efforts of the security services. "Either they are protecting Mladic," he says, "or they are incompetent." Still, Serbia's efforts to shake off its past, however halting they may be, offer some...
That makes it even more crucial to bring to trial the two most wanted remaining fugitives, Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Along with Milosevic, both were indicted by the war-crimes court for their role in the infamous 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, and are widely believed to be in hiding in Serbia, although the Serbian government denies harboring them. Observers say only intense international pressure will persuade Belgrade to cooperate. Serbia's desire to eventually join the European Union might also give it an incentive to rid itself of the pair...