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...NETHERLANDS Mea Culpa An independent report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre blamed Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic for the deaths of up to 8,000 Muslim men, but it also strongly criticized Dutch peacekeeping forces and political leaders. After a few days' reflection, the entire Dutch government resigned. Prime Minister Wim Kok said the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility in the name of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica...
...could win anywhere from $250 to $5,000,000. It's not one of Bosnia's numerous call-in quiz shows, nor is it the state lottery. It's the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo's hotline for information on the whereabouts of Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the two top wartime leaders of Bosnian Serbs who are now Europe's most-wanted war crimes suspects. the whole story...
Such attitudes help explain why Karadzic and other indicted war criminals like Bosnian-Serb General Ratko Mladic have eluded capture for six years. Mladic is widely believed to be moving between the Serb Republic and Serbia under the protection of his former comrades in the Bosnian-Serb and possibly Yugoslav armies--a charge officials from both armies deny. Sheltering among the people whose cause they claimed to represent, the indictees have managed to stay one step ahead of those trying to bring them to justice...
...Serbia's new willingness to cooperate with the court have renewed pressure on what a representative for chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte calls the "last safe haven" for war criminals in the Balkans. Meanwhile, NATO troops in the region, widely criticized for their failure to nab Karadzic and Mladic so far, have recommitted themselves to the task. Rumors that a snatch may take place soon swirl around the region. DON'T TOUCH HIM! warn posters of Karadzic pasted up recently by a Serb cultural group in nearby northern Montenegro. Zoran Zuza, a well-informed Bosnian-Serb journalist and political analyst...
...command dithered over calling air strikes, and when a limited air strike occurred two days after the initial attack, the Serbs responded by threatening to kill 30 Dutch troops they'd captured. That was the end of the air strikes, and the U.N. now found itself cooperating with General Mladic by sending in buses to remove women and children from the area - the Serbs had begun assembling Muslim men aged 12 to 77 for interrogation, and the mass executions began the next day - the same day as the peacekeepers handed over some 5,000 Muslims who'd been sheltering...