Word: radislav
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...convicted, these men could be imprisoned—but the longest sentence that has yet been imposed was 46 years for Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic for genocide. Most of the accused currently reside in jail in a beach resort area of the Hague, just two doors down from where I’m staying. Among the services at the prisoners’ disposal are satellite televisions carrying Yugoslav stations and free massages for back problems...
CONVICTED. RADISLAV KRSTIC, 53, former Bosnian Serb general; of genocide; for the July 1995 killing of more than 7,000 Muslims at the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia; by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal at the Hague. The one-legged (from a mine explosion) ex-general received the first genocide conviction handed down by the tribunal and, after the judge said Krstic had "agreed to evil," its longest sentence--46 years in prison...
...General Radislav Krstic was sentenced Thursday to 46 years in prison for his role as second-in-command of the Bosnian Serb forces that massacred almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a town that had been declared a safe haven under U.N. protection. His superiors, General Ratko Mladic and Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic remain at large, probably somewhere in the Bosnian Serb republic. But the deportation of Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague means that Serbia-proper is no longer a safe haven for Karadzic and Mladic, and they will, therefore, sooner or later, be apprehended...
...journalists flocked to her parents' home last week. Pundits predict a nationwide baby boom. PLEADED INNOCENT. DRAGAN OBRENOVIC, 38, to genocide charges stemming from his role in the 1995 Srebrenicamassacre of 7,500 Bosnian Muslims; in The Hague. According to his indictment Obrenovic carried out the orders ofGeneral Radislav Krstic to "kill all inturn" in what is now considered Central Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. DIED. MICHAEL RITCHIE,62, acerbic American director best known for his debut films Downhill Racer and The Candidate; in New York City. Ritchie also directed the Fletch comedies starring Chevy Chase...
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