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That danger was strongest for Izetbegovic, and he was most concerned about it. He told Christopher and the chief U.S. negotiator, Richard Holbrooke, that Bosnia was being victimized by a settlement that awarded half the country to the Serb perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. He was the most resentful of the official split that allotted 51% of the country to the Muslims and Croats and 49% to the Serbs. When at last he initialed the documents, he insisted they did not provide a just peace. But, he added, "in the world as it is, a better peace could not have been...
Milosevic handled the territorial bargaining almost without consulting the Bosnian Serbs, who were left confused and fuming. The Bosnian Serb representatives reportedly got their first look at the finished documents only 10 minutes before the final ceremony. Even though they had given Milosevic full authority to negotiate for them, there was a serious question whether they would go along with the agreement or scuttle it, as they have done with other peace plans in the past...
...answer came quickly. On Thursday, Milosevic summoned the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and eight other officials to a meeting near Belgrade. There, after a full day of tough talking, Karadzic signed on to the Dayton agreement. Experts in Belgrade said the threat hanging over Karadzic was that if he refused, Milosevic could hand him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. The tribunal has indicted the Bosnian Serb leader, and his military commander General Ratko Mladic, for genocide and other crimes against humanity. The Dayton agreement pledges all the governments to cooperate with...
...will now be up to Karadzic to make sure lower-level Serb officials in Bosnia also go along with the peace plan. That may not be easy, since many of them are shouting defiance. He appeared on television Friday to tell his people, "We accept the peace." But on Saturday, thousands of Bosnian Serbs protested in and around Sarajevo, vowing to defend their turf...
...Serbia proper, reaction was muted but generally welcoming. Most Serbs long ago lost their nationalist fervor and their passion for the war next door. As sanctions hit hard and fueled inflation, the Serb nation looked forward to peace and a return to normality. They realize Milosevic touched off the bloodbath, and now has tried to end it. "I know Milosevic started this," says Dejan Popovic, 22, a student in Belgrade, "and his guilt may be greater than any other's. But now I have to say thank you." Last week the U.N. Security Council said it too by suspending...