Word: mladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conqueror, General Ratko Mladic, swaggered among the defeated, issuing orders with broad gestures to show who was in charge. Beaming, he watched as his Bosnian Serb soldiers offered candy and other treats to the terrified and bedraggled throngs of Muslim refugees in the Srebrenica enclave. He patted a boy on the cheek and assured the crowd, "No one will do you any harm." That much the outside world was allowed to see last week after the Serbs stormed into the eastern Bosnian zone the U.N. had declared a ''safe area" in 1993. Then the cameras were turned...
...Muslim men and boys, some of them not even in their teens, who were pulled away from their families were then carted off to warehouses and a soccer stadium. U.N. officials quoted Mladic as saying they would be interrogated about "war crimes." A spokesman for the international war-crimes tribunal in the Hague, Christian Chartier, responded that the mass deportation of Muslim civilians would itself be investigated as a possible "crime against humanity." The refugees also reported seeing women dragged off by jeering Serbs and hearing the sound of women screaming. The implication was that the Serbs were once again...
...reaction force is just beginning to take shape, and Mladic may have concluded this was the time to clear out the eastern enclaves and create a purely Serb area from the border with Serbia proper all the way to Sarajevo. Others say the attack on Srebrenica and Zepa was just what Bosnians could have expected after the counteroffensive they undertook in June. The Serbs usually respond where the Muslims are most vulnerable...
While the Western leaders argued,TIME's Edward Barnesreports, Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic -- the field commander who some diplomats say now controls the Serb campaign -- scoffed at the threat of airstrikes. "As for NATO's war planes, we are already accustomed to being bombed by them," he told a local newspaper. "No bombardment by NATO planes can do us any harm. The West should realize certain things: It cannot bomb theSerbswith impunity. Serbs cannot be forced to live in pens. They won't have others draw their maps for them that will divide what for centuries has been Serb land...
TIME: But there's still significant contact with General Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb army [who is under investigation as a potential war criminal...