Word: serb
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...Muslims were driven from their homes, raped, robbed and murdered. Some were dumped in the caves that lace the crags above the town; others were dropped in the river, where at night, according to a resident, corpses could be heard hitting the surface "like logs." Recalls an elderly Serb, insisting on anonymity: "The rapes, the atrocities, everything they say is true. I saw them...
...does. One spirit haunts Foca and other towns and villages in eastern Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic: that of Dr. Radovan Karadzic. Following the transfer in June of Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague, Karadzic, the Bosnian-Serb leader during the war, is the U.N. war-crime tribunal's most-wanted man. Reports have placed him in these remote, cloud-draped mountains or just across the border in Montenegro. In Foca, he does not lack support. "I am in love with him," says a woman in her 50s who refuses to give her real name. "If he is arrested, we will...
Such attitudes help explain why Karadzic and other indicted war criminals like Bosnian-Serb General Ratko Mladic have eluded capture for six years. Mladic is widely believed to be moving between the Serb Republic and Serbia under the protection of his former comrades in the Bosnian-Serb and possibly Yugoslav armies--a charge officials from both armies deny. Sheltering among the people whose cause they claimed to represent, the indictees have managed to stay one step ahead of those trying to bring them to justice...
...Meanwhile, NATO troops in the region, widely criticized for their failure to nab Karadzic and Mladic so far, have recommitted themselves to the task. Rumors that a snatch may take place soon swirl around the region. DON'T TOUCH HIM! warn posters of Karadzic pasted up recently by a Serb cultural group in nearby northern Montenegro. Zoran Zuza, a well-informed Bosnian-Serb journalist and political analyst in the former wartime stronghold of Pale, says Karadzic "realizes that he has never been in such dire straits...
...field - they were under strict orders from their political superiors, all the way to the top, to avoid getting into a fight. It is hard to blame individuals for a series of political decisions in different capitals that collectively amounted to a feeble paralysis in the face of Bosnian Serb aggression. And so, the same United Nations that set up the court that convicted Krstic also bears a measure of collective responsibility for the tragedy at Srebrenica...