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...that NATO officials are moving to expand their mandate to attack Serbs if they threaten any remaining safe haven. Clinton, asked today why the Serbs should take the new threat seriously, said: "If the U.N. fails the next time, there will be a different course." But Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, indicted as a war criminal Wednesday, thumbed his nose at the American lawmakers who would arm the Bosnian Muslims. "If they lift the embargo," he said, "I'll just eventually end up capturing all of them...
Bosnian Serb troopstoday marched into Zepa, taking undisputed control of their second U.N. "safe area" in as many weeks. U.N. sources tell TIME's Massimo Calabresi, in Sarajevo, that the mountain enclave is now completely free of Muslim forces: "One witness saw (Serbian Gen.) Ratko Mladic walking around the town with impunity," he says. The fates of thousands of civilians remain uncertain: the Bosnian government, fearing a reprise of reported rapes and murder after the fall of nearby Srebrenica last week, are negotiating for the release of women, children and elderly people. (Some reports said hundreds of Zepa's residents...
...Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal today indicted General Mladic, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and 21 other Serb officials for genocide and crimes against humanity. Despite the indictments, the tribunal is unlikely to put the suspects on trial, since Serbs in Serbia and Bosnia refuse to hand over the suspects. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says the proceedings will mean little until the military conflict is over -- and that Muslim names are sure to be on the list...
...question no one seems ready to answer: Is Mladic, the commander of Bosnian Serb forces, working for his nominal leader Radovan Karadzic, or for the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic? The U.S. and other members of the five-nation Contact Group that is trying to negotiate a settlement in Bosnia have been hoping Milosevic, smarting under tough U.N. economic sanctions, was preparing to recognize the Bosnian state and force the rebel Serbs to sit down to work out an agreement. That might still be true, with the taking of the enclaves a last-stage land grab after which the Bosnian...
...then, maybe not. Says a congressional staff expert: "Either you believe there's a split between Milosevic and Karadzic and Mladic or you don't. I don't." Some diplomats in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, thought they saw indications Milosevic was backing the offensive. They say the dozens of trucks and buses the Bosnian Serbs used to transport the Muslims out of Srebrenica were observed crossing the border from Serbia into Bosnia last Monday night. They also say the Drina Corps, the Serb unit that launched the attack, was newly resupplied with fuel and munitions that must have come from...