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...broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands of non-Serb residents of Bosanski Samac in northern Bosnia until they either fled or died. He stopped only when Bosnian Serb authorities jailed him--unjustly, he huffs--for torturing 11 Serb allies and killing one in a quarrel over loot. Lugar, 34, claims he did not do anything wrong. "I was just...
...taken months for the first trial to begin. Dusan Tadic, a Serb accused of abusing and murdering some of the 3,000 civilians at Omarska camp, finally goes before the court this week after delays caused, his lawyers say, by the Serb government repeatedly hindering efforts to collect evidence and interview witnesses...
Bosnia's victims, Muslim, Croat and Serb alike, plead that there can never be lasting peace in the Balkans if individuals who raped and pillaged and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians are not brought to judgment. But the obstacles are formidable. Despite a recent show of cooperation from Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, the two Presidents have largely stonewalled the tribunal. Both have deeply vested interests in preventing investigations and trials that could incriminate their political apparatus or themselves. Western powers sit down and do business with them because both men are needed to make...
...HAGUE, Netherlands: The Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal began its first case Tuesday with the trial of Bosnian Serb Dusan Tadic. The former bar owner is accused of murder and torture in Serb-run camps in Bosnia in 1992. His case is the first international war crimes trial since German and Japanese leaders were judged after World War II. Of the 57 alleged war criminals formally charged -->