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...past nine years, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and military chief Ratko Mladic have been hiding in mountainous areas of Bosnia and Serbia to avoid deportation to the Hague on war crimes charges. Both men are accused of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Now sources tell TIME that the Serbian government is secretly negotiating with Mladic, promising to fund his defense and provide financial aid to his family if he surrenders. "We are working very intensely on that and expect results in a couple of weeks," says a senior government official. The change appears to have been...
...England squad have roots in Britain's former colonies. But while the colonial era may explain the makeup of those national teams, more contemporary patterns of migration are at work in Sweden, whose strike force consists of the half-Cabo Verdian Henrik Larsson, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose origins are Bosnian-Croat...
...approaches to international prosecutions. And one of them is deeply flawed. In the Hague this week, former Yugoslav President Milosevic is scheduled to take the floor in his own defense. He faces charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as conducting a campaign of genocide against Bosnian Muslims - yet an uninformed visitor to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia would be excused for thinking that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the ones on trial. The pugnacious Milosevic claims he was defending his country against illegal interventions by the U.S. and NATO. He has sought...
...madness." Serbia looked saner last year when, in the aftermath of the assassination, the government imposed a state of emergency and rounded up thousands of suspects. Members of the top-secret special-police unit known as the Red Berets, led by Lukovic (they pioneered ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian war, and some turned to peddling drugs), were accused of carrying out the hit. The unit was disbanded and Lukovic forced underground. The then chief prosecutor, Djordje Ostojic, told Time that the government was determined not only to punish the perpetrators but also to puncture conspiracy theories that had already begun...
Without her family nearby, Peljto says she hopes to remember her background by using her language skills to help other Bosnian immigrants and refugees...