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SARAJEVO: Nikola Koljevic, vice-president of the Serb Republic, on Tuesday visited Sarajevo, the city that he had been helping bomb only four months ago. "It's certainly the first time that any of the Pale leadership has publicly traveled to government-held Sarajevo since the war began in 1992," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "And though it is probably more of a grip-and-grin meeting, it's still a significant step. Koljevic is thought to be connected to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, so there is at least a speculative link to power there." Koljevic met with Kresimir Zubak...
...crew, which included Serb overseers, froze in place and then left at once, he says. "We pretended that we had not seen anything," he explains, because Serb authorities "could have killed us for that." Even later, and among themselves, the men who were under forced labor carefully avoided mention of the sighting. "You never knew if one of the others would tell it to the Serbs," the engineer remarks. "We were all paralyzed by fear." But the witness insists, "It's a fact that they were burying people there." The multicolored clothes suggested dead civilians...
...report by the U.N. identified no fewer than 187 suspected mass-grave sites in the former Yugoslavia, most of them in Bosnia. Thirteen supposedly had "500 bodies or more," and some as many as 5,000. The report came out a year before the fall of Srebrenica to Serb forces last July, following which up to 8,000 Muslim men, women and children vanished--either taken captive by the Serbs, killed on sight by them, or gone missing from an enormous, frequently attacked column of military-age men fleeing across Serb territory. Just how difficult it remains to investigate alleged...
...General Ratko Mladic. So does the Dayton peace agreement negotiated in the U.S. last year. It bars both of them from political office because they have been indicted as war criminals by a special tribunal in the Hague. Karadzic's slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been a stronghold for critics of Karadzic's. While some determined Serbs cling to their outposts in Sarajevo, all leading participants...
...scene in Pale last week could not have taken place even two months ago. The Serbs at the meeting were of the diehard variety, and as Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the Serb assembly, sat a few feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that...