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...Gbagbo since a failed coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina and one of the main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted...
...with "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - he is due to testify on Oct. 1. The accusations against Bobetko stem from a nine-day Croatian military operation in rural Krajina's "Medak pocket." From Sept. 9 to 17, 1993, according to the indictment, Croatian forces attacked and plundered Serb villages, unlawfully killing at least 100 Serbs while others were shot, stabbed, mutilated and otherwise inhumanely treated. As the army's most senior commander, Bobetko "played a central role" in the operation, the indictment says, while also having responsibility for preventing and punishing breaches of military discipline and humanitarian...
...long ago in the single digits, doubled in the first week of his trial earlier this year to 20% and stayed there. Approval of the international tribunal conversely continues to drop: now even the NATO alliance that bombed Belgrade, polls say, is held in higher public esteem. The Serb nationalism that Milosevic rode to power, meanwhile, is enjoying a modest revival. Ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, Milosevic's own pick for President in elections at the end of this month, now claims 12% support, up from 4% in May. Those who hoped that the spectacle of the former President in the dock...
...painstaking work. The U.N. says that if allowed to return, its inspection team would need a year to document the full range of Saddam's arsenal. That's too long for Administration hard-liners, who fear that Iraq could use U.N. monitors as shields against a military strike, as Serb forces did during the Balkan wars. There's also the problem of what happens once the inspectors finish their work. There's every reason to believe that, if left in power, Saddam would become more determined to obtain weapons of mass destruction. "Even if the inspectors go back in," says...
...Balkans a great many people might soon be saying, "Yankee, please stay." It would be hard to overstate the impact of U.S. involvement in the region during the past decade. The U.S. helped end the Bosnian war and later tamped down conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia. America pressured the Serb opposition to oust Slobodan Milosevic and forced his extradition to the international tribunal in the Hague. Along the way, the U.S. won friends in unexpected places, notably among the region's Muslim population. Those alliances are still paying political dividends today. But now that era may be coming...