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...small hearing room—what for many people are the faces of evil itself: Blagoje Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric. These men are on trial for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Along with others—most famously Slobodan Milosevic—these men were accused of engaging in a “widespread and systematic attack” against Bosnian Croats and Muslims over the last decade. Initially, ethnic minorities were forced to wear white armbands and white ribbons on their cars. Somehow, the world ignored this warning...
...crime, and the authorities have barred Khordadian from leaving the country. U.S. officials made no public comment. SENTENCED. IVAN NIKOLIC, 30, a former Yugoslav soldier, to eight years in prison for war crimes during the Kosovo war, in the first trial of its kind held in Serbia since President Slobodan Milosevic's ouster; in Prokuplje, Serbia. Nikolic pleaded not guilty, calling the proceedings a "political trial." MARRIED. KING MOHAMMED VI, 38, to commoner and computer engineer SALMA BENNANI, 24; in Rabat, Morocco. In contrast to past royal nuptials, which were held secretly, the King announced his wedding publicly amid much...
...million Palestinians who don't share Armey's view that they should just pack up and leave their homes because of some conservative Republican's ideological fancy. Indeed, someone may want to gently remind the House GOP leader that ethnic cleansing is just the sort of thing that got Slobodan Milosevic into all that trouble...
...NETHERLANDS "Belgrade Decided to Destroy Kosovo" In dramatic testimony at Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes trial in the Hague, President Ibrahim Rugova of Kosovo said, "Belgrade clearly decided to destroy Kosovo through violence and war" by "a calmly done cleansing of the population." Rugova, who sparred verbally with the former Yugoslav leader, is the highest-ranking prosecution witness so far. The charges against Milosevic include responsibility for the deaths of more than 900 Kosovars and the expulsion of 80,000 in a crackdown that drew in NATO forces...
...Yugoslavia's former army commander turned himself in to the U.N. war-crimes tribunal but pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. General Dragoljub Ojdanic, who was army chief during the 1999 war in Kosovo, is the most senior war-crimes suspect to face charges after former President Slobodan Milosevic. He was the first to hand himself over after the Yugloslav government ordered 23 people to surrender or face possible arrest and extradition. "I have nothing to be ashamed of," he said...