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...Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs of raping Muslim women. It marked the first instance in which the tribunal has defined sexual offenses as crimes against humanity. The three men -Dragoljub Kunarac, a former commander in the Bosnian Serb army, and former paramilitary leaders Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic-received sentences ranging from 12 to 28 years for brutalizing women in 1992 and 1993 in the southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims...
CONVICTED. Three former BOSNIAN SERB COMMANDERS; for the 1992 rape, torture and sexual enslavement of Muslim women; by the United Nations war-crimes tribunal; at the Hague. In a landmark decision, the war-crimes court broadened the definition of wartime slavery to include sexual enslavement and deemed sexual slavery and rape to be crimes against humanity...
...Frankly, despite some efforts, they have for the most part already allowed the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs in Kosovo to take place right before their eyes. Now their efforts to slow down rather than stop the process are going to decrease. A typical military reaction to a security threat would be to confine as many troops as possible to base and decrease movements. So far KFOR has demonstrated that the safety of their own troops comes long before the safety of any civilians in Kosovo, Serb or Albanian. Any action involving risk to the troops is canceled, and this...
...There is no surprise in continuing attacks on Serb civilians in Kosovo by Albanian extremists. This was not the first, nor will it be the last. But what was significant about this attack was the technique - a remote-controlled antitank mine buried in the asphalt. This goes way beyond the concept of "random revenge attacks." It required a high level of technical sophistication and organization. And that means it was a message to KFOR, too - that the NATO-led peacekeeping force is also vulnerable. Those who carried out this attack could just as easily have blown up a KFOR vehicle...
...from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under domestic pressure not to capitulate to all the U.N.?s demands, but which also wants to develop credibility on the international stage...