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...prosecution of seven men suspected of the murder of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim inhabitants of the town of Srebrenica in 1995. She met Time's Andrew Purvis at her offices in the Dutch city of the Hague and discussed the frustrations of her work, the hunt for Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and the war in Iraq. After 13 years, the U.N. war-crimes tribunal is nearing the end of its work. Has it been worth it? Definitely, yes. It is the first time that international justice has been implemented. Nobody in high, responsible positions had been charged under...
...only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip to Argentina with a Bosnian-Serb family wanted as war criminals. Luckily for Misha, Argentina boasts islands inhabited by birds of his breed. After stints in Ukraine and Chechnya, what more could a tuckered-out penguin ask for? Flightless birds aren't the only characters in Kurkov's absurdly realistic landscape. In his 2004 novel, The President...
...once all-powerful party put him in the ground in the dark, not in some grand presidential tomb but in a plain grave beneath a 100-year-old linden tree in his sooty Serbian hometown of Pozarevac. A brass band, made up of retired members of the Serb military, played a mournful march, as a handful of the faithful tried to recapture his former glory in speeches blending his trademark nationalist rhetoric with rants against Serbia's manifold alleged enemies. Though an estimated 80,000 attended a memorial rally in Belgrade, most Serbs, it seemed, were glad that their erstwhile...
...locations where Mladic had hidden, and the senior security official says that 30 active or "recently retired" security officers involved in protecting Mladic have been identified. Others are skeptical of such claims. Kandic, the human-rights investigator, says Serbia may never hand over Mladic, since his testimony might confirm Serb guilt for crimes during the Bosnian war. Draskovic, who escaped two assassination attempts during Milosevic's time in power, says he is unimpressed by the efforts of the security services. "Either they are protecting Mladic," he says, "or they are incompetent." Still, Serbia's efforts to shake off its past...
That makes it even more crucial to bring to trial the two most wanted remaining fugitives, Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Along with Milosevic, both were indicted by the war-crimes court for their role in the infamous 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, and are widely believed to be in hiding in Serbia, although the Serbian government denies harboring them. Observers say only intense international pressure will persuade Belgrade to cooperate. Serbia's desire to eventually join the European Union might also give it an incentive to rid itself of the pair...