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...advance on Russian soldiers at Pristina airport. (Gen. Jackson refused, claiming such a move would’ve precipitated “World War III.”) Seldom mentioned, but indeed troubling, is the nature of Clark’s August 1994 meeting in Banja Luka, Bosnia, with Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic...
...auspices of the Pentagon, at a time when Clark was director of strategy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He had gone to war-ravaged Bosnia on a fact-finding mission. Though reportedly advised by the State Department not to meet with Mladic, who was widely blamed for Serb barbarities at Gorazde and Sarajevo, Clark did anyway...
...clashes between police and protesters in Baku following Ilham Aliyev's election as President. Official results gave Aliyev, who succeeds his 80-year-old father, Haidar, nearly 80% of the vote. The opposition claimed the ballot was rigged. Talks End SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Talks in Vienna between senior Serb officials and leaders of the breakaway province of Kosovo - the first since the 1999 war - were hailed as a breakthrough by E.U. and U.N. officials, even if little progress was made. Kosovo, which has been administered by the U.N. since 1999, wants independence from Serbia, but Serb authorities are opposed. Better...
...capacity for poor judgment were on display. He played a key role in stopping an early round of bloodshed in the Balkans, helping to draft the Dayton accords that halted the killing in Bosnia. But he stumbled when he met and swapped military hats with Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general the U.S. had branded a war criminal for the indiscriminate killing of Bosnian Muslims. The meeting infuriated the State Department. Clark later apologized, saying his gesture had given Mladic "a recognition and an acceptance into the brotherhood of arms which I don't feel his record substantiates...
...Convicted. Darko Mrdja, 36, Bosnian Serb police commander whose officers killed more than 200 Muslim men in 1992; after pleading guilty to a charge of murder as a war crime and a second charge of a crime against humanity; in the Hague, the Netherlands. During the massacre, the victims were taken to a cliff in central Bosnia, supposedly for a prisoner exchange. "Here is where we do the exchange," Mrdja is alleged to have said, "the living for the living, and the dead." Then the police opened fire...