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SARAJEVO: Chief U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke headed back to the Balkans as Bosnia slid closer to war, the furious Bosnian Serb Army cutting contact with NATO forces and forbidding civilians to move about freely. These actions frustrate the most important achievements of the peace processes: open lines of communication with NATO and free travel. The Bosnian Serbs are protesting the arrest of two Serb soldiers, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, who are now being held by the Bosnian Muslims pending their possible indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal. In a rare press conference, Serb Lt. General Milan...
...BOSNIAN SERBS COOPERATE...
Bowing to pressure from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnian Serb leaders agreed to release some 180 prisoners of war and allow a full probe into suspected mass graves. They also pledged cooperation with war-crimes investigators. The commander of NATO-led forces in Bosnia said there may be 200 to 300 mass graves in Bosnia. As many as 7,000 people are missing from Srebrenica alone, which was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces last July. By week's end, Bosnian Croats and Muslims had freed 250 prisoners; the Serbs none...
TUZLA: Among the other complex issues confronting Christopher in Bosnia will be what to do about thousands of missing Muslims. Though U.N. investigators began digging today at the site of a mass grave near the northern Bosnian town of Jajce, even Admiral Leighton Smith, commander of NATO operations in Bosnia, estimates that there may be as many as 300 such graves scattered across the war zone. Also, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Srebenican women demonstrated again in Tuzla on Friday. "It was quite violent," says Stiglmayer. "They threw rocks and broke windows of a government building." Dozens...
...Massimo Calabresi. "But this is less significant than if they were to go somewhere controlled by the Serbs, who, by all accounts except their own, have committed most of the atrocities during the war." Manfred Novak, a U.N. investigator, will supervise digging at three sites near the central Bosnian town of Jajce, now controlled by Bosnian Croats, because unseasonably warm weather and floods have unearthed dozens of bodies in the area. Adds TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer: "The International War Crimes tribunal still plans to begin the real investigations of mass grave sites, like those around Serb-held Brcko and Srebenica...