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Bitterness over the war and its conclusion spells finis for the career of Karadzic and possibly that of Bosnia's military commander, General Ratko Mladic. So does the Dayton peace agreement negotiated in the U.S. last year. It bars both of them from political office because 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...
...French newspaper reports that the two pilots released by the Serbs on the eve of the Paris peace treaty ceremony were tortured during their three-and-a-half month imprisonment. At one point, said the paper, Le Canard Enchaine, Gen. Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serbs now under indictment for war crimes, told the two men that they would be tortured and killed. The newspaper reports that the French government told the pilots to give the public a calm rendition of their captivity. "But," says TIME?s Bruce Crumley, "the paper contends that when they were debriefed by military...
...Smith and his party, including a dozen bodyguards, traveled in armored vehicles and entered the Serb compound only after a Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear that if NATO peacekeeping troops encounter Karadzic or Mladic, "We will do our best to detain them." The two were nowhere to be seen as Smith conducted his meetings. KICKING...
THUG OF THE YEAR: Sani Abacha, leader and executioner of shell-shocked Nigerians. Runner-up: Ratko Mladic, the Serb who makes Milosevic look like a moderate...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...