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...genocide conviction of the Serb general responsible for the Srebrenica atrocity in 1995 is cause for satisfaction, but not closure, because many of those who share culpability were not in the dock at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. Those include not only the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs' murderous campaign but also the international community that assembled the victims on the promise of protection, and then stepped aside and allowed a five-day slaughter they had the means of stopping...
...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...
...convictions of Karadzic or Mladic would fully address the acts and omissions that caused the Srebrenica massacre. The U.N. contingent's shameful performance there may actually have even facilitated it. U.N. forces had created a "safe haven" in the town, where they promised protection to refugees from the Serb offensive in northern Bosnia. But when the 600 lightly-armed Dutch peacekeepers came under attack from the Serb forces, they began to retreat. The Bosnian Muslim fighters who'd surrendered their weapons to the U.N. as a condition for entering the safe haven asked for them back, hoping that they could...
...prosecutor Del Ponte insisted that "the Serbian people are not on trial here. It is Slobodan Milosevic as an individual who will now face trial." But beginning with Milosevic's arraignment Tuesday, the sheer sensation of the trial will thrust many long-concealed crimes into the light and force Serbs to confront the scope of atrocities allegedly commanded by Milosevic but carried out by ordinary men and women, in their guises as soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army forces in Kosovo and holds...
...Ponte has already expanded the indictment against Milosevic to cover some 300 newly confirmed Kosovar victims, and expects to add further charges to account for the Serb police's recent discoveries of mass graves. She has also signaled her intention to indict Milosevic for war crimes perpetrated during the earlier wars in Bosnia and Croatia. A trial on those charges would be explosive - it could, for instance, reveal what Belgrade knew about the massacre of at least 7,000 Bosnians in Srebrenica in 1995 - but would also present a more slippery case. Although many observers have suspected that Milosevic...