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...mortar rounds going off as one walks up a city street. After an attack by Serbs, Rosso feels a brief adrenaline high at being alive while others have died. Then shame. He recognizes this and sees that guilt may be what drives him to pursue the swaggering gang leader Luka, who poses as a resistance hero, and may, in some perverted way, actually...
...they have been indicted as war criminals by a special tribunal in the Hague. Karadzic's slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been a stronghold for critics of Karadzic's. While some determined Serbs cling to their outposts in Sarajevo, all leading participants in the power scramble seem likely to reject the fanatic nationalism of Karadzic and Mladic and to opt for at least temporary cooperation with the Implementation...
...peace pact is supposed to put a stop to ethnic cleansing, but the practice continued a week after the signing, when 93 ill and elderly Muslims in the Serb-held Banja Luka region were driven into Bosnian government--held territory. Last week they were joined by up to 250 more victims. These Muslims were expelled by Serbs who had earlier been ethnically cleansed from Muslim-held territory. The Serbs were resettled around Banja Luka and proceeded, as a U.N. official puts it, to "kick out their hosts." Right now Bosnian Croats are also getting in some last licks, despite...
...last two days, a further sign, Niksic says, that "they may be getting used to the agreement." Meanwhile, General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander who disappeared from public view after threatening violence two weeks ago, is reportedly keeping a low profile at his headquarters in Banja Luka...
...make things in Dayton more difficult." The other great dilemna, says Barnes, who just returned from Bosnia, is that "nobody has behaved honorably in the face of these atrocities. And there were no real lessons learned from Srebenica. The same thing happened at the beginning of October around Banja Luka. Men were separated from women and children and taken away. Again the West did nothing, despite knowing about it. There are now 2,000 men missing in that area. There's enough guilt to go around. There's blood on everyone's hands here. You're talking about the biggest...