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...Because persistence is the better part of diplomacy, American envoy Robert Gelbard will return to the Balkans Wednesday. On the agenda: a meeting with President Slobodan Milosevic, as the U.S. continues its quixotic quest to persuade suspected Serb war criminals to turn themselves over to the tender mercies of the U.N. tribunal...
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia: An unusually aggressive NATO raid here has set the stage for a potentially violent showdown between rival Serb factions. A force of 350 heavily-armed British troops backed by American Apache choppers knocked out the local power base of hardline leader and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic ? and met no resistance...
...offensive put 31,000 NATO peacekeepers clearly in direct opposition to Serb wartime leaders still in command of thousands of police officers as well as the Serbian economy. It split the Bosnian Serb sector into two regions: one controlled by Karadzic and the other by his official successor, President Biljana Plavsic...
...HAGUE, Netherlands: The U.N. war crimes court sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb war criminal convicted of torturing and killing his neighbors, to 20 years in prison today. The sentence is the first imposed by the war crimes court after a full trial since World War II. In delivering the court's decision, Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald said Tadic beat his victims "intentionally and with sadistic brutality," using among other things, knives and iron bars as torture weapons. Goran Neskovic, the deputy justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government, objected that the court demonstrated an anti-Serb bias and that...
ZAGREB, Croatia: Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that though Sunday's Croation elections are a failure for democracy and the protection of minority Serb rights in the region, the White House is unlikely to do anything about it: " The elections have done nothing more than reinforce the Balkan status quo. The West has counted on Croatia for stability in the region, so it's not going to blame it now for an internal lack of democracy and human rights." With more than 90 percent of the total count in, Croatiannationalist strongman President Franjo Tudjman has won an easy victory, sidestepping Western media...