Word: mladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fade-out of NATO's threat to attack? The answer depends on a dozen conflicting motives, but most of all on the Serbs. Once again the confident Bosnian Serbs are playing the U.N. and NATO like stringed instruments. The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, last week eased the strangulation of Sarajevo a notch, calculating how much would be just enough to make the U.S. and its allies hold fire...
...threat of air attacks "very seriously," Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic pledged his forces would withdraw from newly captured mountains and allow free flow of aid convoys into the city. Similar commitments have gone unfulfilled in the past, but this time hard-line Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic stood next to Karadzic and said, "Everything which is agreed will be carried out." The U.N. commander in Bosnia, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont, was still skeptical. Said he: "Actions speak louder than words." On Friday he and Mladic talked for six hours at Sarajevo airport without reaching agreement on handing...
...headquarters, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim, finally signed on to a four-part peace plan calling for dividing the Balkan country into 10 semiautonomous regions. On Friday General Ratko Mladic, the commander of Bosnia's Serbs, agreed to a cease-fire early this week. Whether that amounted to a real military pause just short of the goal -- or a ploy -- remained to be seen...
...Srebrenica as long as I consider the safety of the inhabitants at risk." Those were brave words from a soldier who up to then had had few admirers. He had drawn criticism from the U.N. contingent in the Bosnian capital for hobnobbing with Serbian militia chiefs, like Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Sarajevo," and for not forthrightly denouncing Serbian aggression. His orders from the U.N. were not to use force and not to take sides, and he stuck firmly -- perhaps too firmly -- to those instructions...
...blockades from relief supplies but to everybody, "without regard to ethnic or religious affiliation." By week's end, with the drops set to begin, the operation had support from U.S. congressional leaders, allied officials such as Britain's John Major, and the U.N. Security Council. Even General Ratko Mladic, commander of Serb forces in Bosnia, indicated his troops would "tolerate" the airlift...