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...want to be sure they are served to Mr. Milosevic," said Hans Holthuis, registrar of the Netherlands-based war crimes tribunal, before meeting Thursday with Serbian justice minister Vladan Batic in Belgrade. He later told the independent Beta news agency that "we had good talks," although Batic reportedly didn't accept the papers, saying they had to be presented instead to the federal justice minister, Momcilo Grubac. Holthuis and Grubac are scheduled to meet Friday. Full Story...
...course, you don't have to look far to find groups of Europeans - Austrian neo-Nazis, Serbian warlords, ethnic Albanian guerillas, English football hooligans - who still cling to more restrictive, and virulent, notions of identity and nationhood. But for just as many, such boundaries no longer signify anything. Sascha Pichler, 27, was born in Salzburg, Austria to parents of Austrian, Czech, Russian and Serb descent. She spent her childhood in Malaysia, the U.S., Portugal and Germany. After earning degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics, she moved to Brussels. She rarely sits still: since January she has been...
...Eventually, I believe he will. But first he'll be tried in Serbia for breaking Serbian law, before going to The Hague for breaking international law. Although he could still face a number of even more serious charges in Serbia, the state has assembled some serious evidence on these corruption charges and they want to start the process of trying Milosevic. It's no coincidence, of course, that the arrest was timed to meet a U.S. deadline to put Milosevic behind bars if Serbia is to receive economic aid. And once he's behind bars on corruption charges, there...
...This is a case about ethnic cleansing, persecution and genocide," prosecutor Dirk Ryneveld told judges in his opening statement. In their effort to create an ethnically pure Serbian state, prosecutors say Bosnian Serbs worked from a "blueprint for the commission of genocide," killing some civilians and terrorizing those who remained into leaving. They did that, say prosecutors, by attacking and then destroying their villages and, in particular, by detaining the survivors in three now infamous "concentration-style" camps: Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm. Prosecutor Dirk Ryneveld told judges the court will hear from some of the camps' survivors. Full Story...
...partial elimination of the buffer zone carries risks. Serbian troops entering the area may include the same units, albeit under a different command, that operated in Kosovo. But Belgrade says it has imposed new rules for treatment of civilians, and NATO stresses that the effort is only a test. "If things go wrong," says a NATO official, "we're still in control...