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...Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs of raping Muslim women. It marked the first instance in which the tribunal has defined sexual offenses as crimes against humanity. The three men -Dragoljub Kunarac, a former commander in the Bosnian Serb army, and former paramilitary leaders Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic-received sentences ranging from 12 to 28 years for brutalizing women in 1992 and 1993 in the southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims...
...Decades of tinkering with the system are at a dead end. Resistance to change within a proliferation of petty baronies and bishoprics has buried in paper nearly every major reform effort. A growing view holds that the U.N. must be reinvented--pardon the expression--in a basic way. Declares Dragoljub Najman, a native Yugoslav who worked in the U.N.'s cultural arm for 30 years: "It's become too large, it's underfinanced, and it's under serious fire. The question you must ask yourself then is whether the U.N. is not headed toward some kind of disaster. I think...
From the start, the partisans were opposed by the Četniks-Serbian royalists loyal to the exiled King Peter II-who were led by Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović. Tito initially offered to join forces with the Četniks and put his troops under Mihailović's command. More fearful of the Communists than of the Germans, Mihailović demurred and his Četniks were soon engaged in civil war against the partisans. (He was tried after the war and executed...