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Unlike many of her fellow accused, Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic has voluntarily surrendered herself at the Hague tribunal to stand trial for war crimes. Why did she go willingly...
...could serve his sentence in Serbia, because the Hague may not require that he remain in custody there - or there may be some kind of a compromise in which Milosevic is tried for war crimes jointly by the Hague tribunal and the Yugoslavian prosecutor. This is the compromise the Serb authorities are pushing for. But whatever the outcome, it's likely that he'll first go to trial in Belgrade...
...Situation Report: Slobodan Milosevic may be nothing more than an irrelevant opposition leader now, but the Balkans' woes are from over. Kosovo's Albanians still want independence, but most of NATO is inclined to keep the territory nominally under Serb sovereignty although autonomous for all practical purposes. European NATO powers fear full-blown independence will link Kosovo with Albania, and prompt new conflicts throughout the region. But recent attacks on NATO forces by Albanian nationalists seeking to colonize a tiny strip of ethnic-Albanian inhabited Serb territory just across the border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians...
...irony is that Moscow is trying to build alliances to oppose the U.S., but they're not learning the lessons from Yugoslavia. There they tried to support Milosevic even though the Serb people were not keen to support him. Now that the Serbs have overthrown Milosevic, they'll probably turn to the West, which has a lot more to offer than Russia does. So there's a danger in Putin's strategy that when all of these countries open up and overthrow their dictators, they're all going to turn back to the West. What will Putin do then...
...Western alliance holds no brief for the Albanian separatists, but their provocation of Belgrade could paint NATO into a nasty corner. The spectacle of refugees fleeing as Serb armor descends on their villages to flush out the guerrillas would be an uncomfortable flashback to last year's ethnic cleansing. And yet the only way to prevent that may be to move more forcefully against the Albanian separatists who'd fought alongside the West last time around, which could provoke a dangerous showdown between NATO and the former KLA throughout Kosovo. Even if NATO and Belgrade find a way of resolving...