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...less what their stance will be. The talks were apparently making progress when the Bosnian Muslims agreed to the military disengagement portion of the agreement in return for a promise that U.N. peacekeepers would take control of Serb artillery and heavy weapons. A day later, the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, said his forces would never hand over their big guns...
...Serbs not only vehemently deny encouraging mass rape but also deny that such rapes have even occurred. Croats and Muslims have also denied such practices. The Balkans reverberate to this counterpoint of denial, a victim symphony of outraged innocence. Radovan Karadzic, who is a poet and a psychiatrist as well as the ruthless commander-in-chief of the Bosnian Serbs, tries a reverse approach. He says soldiers on all sides are committing rape. He sounds the note of bogus fatalism that is also a kind of blessing of rape: "It is tragic. But these dreadful things happen in all wars...
...accept their plan for partitioning war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was, he said, a "very important step toward peace." The mediators, U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance and European Community representative Lord Owen, indicated that they believed him. Both gave Milosevic credit for pressing the Bosnian Serb boss, Radovan Karadzic, to accept the plan...
...provinces. Of these, Serbs would clearly predominate in one and Muslims in three, with power-sharing agreements between Muslims and either Serbs or Croats required in five others. The last province would be long-besieged Sarajevo, slated to become a demilitarized open city. Both Bosnia's Serb nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic and the republic's President Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim, criticized the plan but at the time agreed to attend a second session this week...
General Ratko Mladic, commander of Bosnian Serb military forces, and his political chief, Radovan Karadzic, who calls himself President of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina...