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...reward for his staunch support, Milosevic installed Kertes as customs chief at the height of the Bosnian war in 1994. "The customs service was a crucial part of Milosevic's system, almost as important as the police," recalls Mladjan Dinkic, recently appointed head of the Yugoslav Central Bank and the author of a book on the regime's financial improprieties. "It was Milosevic's primary source of cash, and it never ran dry." Last week, investigators estimated that between 1994 and 2000 as much as $4 billion passed through Kertes' hands to Milosevic's inner circle...
...None of the above: Milosevic's charisma faded sometime during the Bosnian war and from then on, he ruled by fear, bribery and skillful political maneuvering. Now that he is no longer in a position to intimidate or bestow gifts, he has discovered, like many autocrats before him, that all the support is suddenly gone...
...telling all. To defend himself from that testimony, Milosevic said the stolen funds were not for personal gain but to arm Serbian rebels in Croatia and Bosnia. But that admission, the first ever, was welcomed by U.N. war-crimes prosecutors trying to document Belgrade's role in fomenting the Bosnian war. Kertes is under heavy police guard in an undisclosed location and reportedly near nervous collapse for fear that one of his erstwhile friends might somehow track him down...
Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal opened their case against three Bosnian Serb camp commanders by saying they played a role in a larger "genocidal" plan to destroy Muslims and Croats. It's alleged that hundreds of non-Serbs were killed, tortured and raped and thousands were held prisoner in three camps in northwest Bosnia's Prijedor region...
...This is a case about ethnic cleansing, persecution and genocide," prosecutor Dirk Ryneveld told judges in his opening statement. In their effort to create an ethnically pure Serbian state, prosecutors say Bosnian Serbs worked from a "blueprint for the commission of genocide," killing some civilians and terrorizing those who remained into leaving. They did that, say prosecutors, by attacking and then destroying their villages and, in particular, by detaining the survivors in three now infamous "concentration-style" camps: Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm. Prosecutor Dirk Ryneveld told judges the court will hear from some of the camps' survivors. Full Story...