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Even war has its rules. Slobodan Miljkovic, called "Lugar"--the Gamekeeper--would not have been thinking about that when, as eyewitnesses allege, he had 50 Croat and Muslim Bosnian civilians lined up against a wall and took part in shooting 16 of them, when he sliced an old man's throat with a broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands...
...tried at the Hague, hundreds of Balkan triggermen who carried out atrocities and scores of high-ranking apparatchiks and politicians who ordered the genocide go about their lives as if nothing has happened. National leaders who presided over the savagery remain in power, including the indicted ringleaders of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Only three of the 57 accused war criminals formally charged--46 Serbs, eight Croats, three Muslims--are in custody in the Hague, though the Bosnian government just arrested two of the Muslims and plans to hand them over this week. It could take years...
...HAGUE, Netherlands: The Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal began its first case Tuesday with the trial of Bosnian Serb Dusan Tadic. The former bar owner is accused of murder and torture in Serb-run camps in Bosnia in 1992. His case is the first international war crimes trial since German and Japanese leaders were judged after World War II. Of the 57 alleged war criminals formally charged -->