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...France, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated that each case will be dealt with in a humane and realistic way. YUGOSLAVIA Kosovo Shoot-Out In the most serious attack since the U.N. mission arrived in 1999, nato-led peacekeepers and U.N. police came under fire from ethnic Albanian gunmen. Serb farmers, and U.N. police guarding them, were attacked in the village of Gorazdevac, about 90 km west of the provincial capital Pristina. No one was hurt, but the situation was brought under control only after a two-hour gun battle. ZIMBABWE Dumbing Down An independent radio station in the capital Harare...
...years in prison for war crimes that led to the deaths of 121 civilians and three prisoners of war; in Karlovac, Croatia. Following the collapse of communist Yugoslavia, Abdic distanced himself from the Bosnian government and declared himself ruler of a small autonomous region. To enlist the aid of Serb fighters to defend his fiefdom, Abdic turned his back on his fellow Muslims and set up camps where about 5,000 people were detained for just short of two years...
...convicted, these men could be imprisoned—but the longest sentence that has yet been imposed was 46 years for Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic for genocide. Most of the accused currently reside in jail in a beach resort area of the Hague, just two doors down from where I’m staying. Among the services at the prisoners’ disposal are satellite televisions carrying Yugoslav stations and free massages for back problems...
...native Mostar lost the bridge from which the city takes its name. For more than four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone towers in southeastern Bosnia were a meeting place for Serbs, Croats and Muslims as well as travelers from as far away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried to protect their bridge by swaddling it in old blankets...
...angry rebuttals from Muslim ambassadors and aid groups who say investigators are casting too wide a net. Just last week the deputy director of Bosnia's antiterrorism commission quit because he said his government was focusing too much on Muslims and not enough on known war criminals like Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. For General Sylvester - who is leading the antiterror task force - that is beside the point. He is clearly a man on a mission. He was in Bosnia in 1996 when NATO troops uncovered a terrorist training camp run by Iranian and other Islamic militants, or mujahedin...