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...growing popularity among war-weary Serbs today comes from her personal honesty and her willingness to stand up against the profiteering of the Karadzic clique. When she took over the Bosnian Serb Republic's presidency a year ago after the U.S. forced Karadzic to resign, she saw firsthand how deep the corruption ran. Karadzic and his allies still controlled the police, the media and the state-run businesses, which are the republic's key political institutions. "During the war, I was aware that many things were done in an illegal way," Plavsic said. "I justified it with the circumstances...
While Karadzic and his cronies have been amassing fortunes, the republic's 900,000 citizens have grown poorer. Unemployment in parts of the Bosnian Serb Republic remains as high as 80%; only 3% of international aid has gone to the Bosnian Serbs, because the Pale hard-liners have refused to carry out Dayton's provisions. Plavsic, who once opposed the treaty, says she realizes that the only way Bosnian Serbs can "reach full economic progress" and survive is to not fight the accord...
...campaign to wrest full control from Karadzic still has a long, dangerous way to go. Plavsic "is doomed to failure," warns Karadzic ally Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency. But momentum has begun shifting her way since British commandos killed a suspected war criminal and captured another in a gun battle in July. Last month NATO peacekeepers helped Plavsic evict pro-Karadzic cops from police stations in Banja Luka and nearby towns. And the number of Plavsic supporters grows day by day with senior Serb Democratic Party members, mayors, army officers and police chiefs pledging their...
...couldn't monopolize information. Later, with Russia adrift, he spent $100 million to help Soviet science, and scientists, survive the transition. In Yugoslavia he was outraged by what he perceived to be the pusillanimity of the West, so he doled out $50 million to try to save Sarajevo from Serb depredations. He has spent millions more funding Open Society foundations around the world, which finance education, freedom of speech and human-rights projects...
BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Several American injuries were reported during violent attacks today on NATO peacekeeping forces in this Serb-controlled town. The attacks were fueled in part by the belief that the Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has "sold her soul to the devil" by co-operating with the men in blue berets. And with the former president and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic waiting in the wings, this is not the best time for Plavsic to be losing her grip on power...