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...Serbia." According to notes of the meeting, he declared that "taking hostages ... is like shooting someone carrying a white flag." Milosevic said that he had sent his chief of state security to Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold, to tell Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and General Ratko Mladic, his military commander, that they would be arrested-and worse-if every one of the hostages was not freed, healthy and rearmed. As the day wore on with little news of progress in Pale, Milosevic fretted about Karadzic's word "meaning nothing." Said he: "I would not pay five cents...
...announcing that the Bosnian Serbs had accepted his appeal as a sign of readiness to start "resolving the crisis." But the crisis was far from over. On Friday a U.S. Air Force F-16 had been shot down over the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. Serb commander Ratko Mladic reportedly claimed to have found the pilot, but there was no immediate confirmation. A senior official in Washington said Saturday he hoped that it was true and that the Serbs would release him promptly...
...guilty to charges of murdering, raping and torturing Bosnian Muslims in the opening hearing of the first war-crimes tribunals -- held in the Hague -- since the end of World War II. The war-crimes prosecutor also announced he was investigating three men-Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader; Ratko Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army; and Mico Stanisic, the former Bosnian Serb secret-police chief -- on possible genocide charges. U.N. officials acknowledged that identifying the three as suspects complicates the job of trying to forge a settlement with Bosnian Serb forces. Meanwhile, the tattered four-month-old truce between...
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and two of his lieutenants will beinvestigated as suspected war criminalsby the U.N.'s Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. The tribunal will investigate Karadzic, Bosnian Serb army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and the former head of the Bosnian Serb special police Mico Stanisic for genocide, torture and rape. The action does not include formal charges against the men but the investigation is expected to result in charges. The tribunal has indicted twenty-two Serbs forcrimes including genocide, murder and rape, but only one, Dusan Tadic, is in custody. He was extradited by Germany...
...Bush Administration named several top Serbs as potential war criminals, including Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, the leader of Bosnia's Serbs and General Ratko Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army. The Clinton Administration has compiled evidence of high-level involvement. "We can piece together a heck of a lot," says a U.S. official. A recent State Department report cites evidence that Mladic had "overall responsibility for the camp system." One witness, a Croat who had been an officer in the regular Yugoslav army and later spent 14 months in various Serb-run detention centers, testified that Mladic...