Word: srebrenicas
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...been notable only for their complete failure. Karadzic, 60, a former psychiatrist, led the breakaway Bosnian Serbs during the war. He was indicted by the tribunal in 1995 on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, and for overseeing the three-year siege of Sarajevo, among other crimes. General Mladic, 63, a former colonel and loyal communist in the Yugoslav People's Army, was Karadzic's military commander, though that does not come close to capturing...
...detention center near the Hague, where he was the first head of state to be prosecuted for genocide; apparently of natural causes. Milosevic, who had heart trouble, had been on trial since 2002 for his alleged role as architect of the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes. His decade-long rule over Yugoslavia and Serbia produced four wars, which led to 250,000 deaths and introduced the term ethnic cleansing. Son of a defrocked Orthodox priest and a teacher, Milosevic lost power in a 2000 election. Serbia's new leaders extradited...
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...
...consequences of his policies were all too visible, in Sarajevo, in Srebrenica and in Vukovar. Almost 11 years ago, I walked the town's muddy streets, stepping over corpses, as Serb militia members led away helpless civilians to what would be their mass grave. A year later, as part of a similar land grab in eastern Bosnia, the same men were happily torching Muslim homes and murdering their owners. The fighters were drunk with bloodlust and slivovitz, but they were also led by the invisible hand of Milosevic's secret police, who organized, armed and supplied them...
...international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Mladic's arrest happened only in news flashes and newspaper headlines around the world. In real life, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army indicted for reckless bombardment of Sarajevo and the slaughter of at least 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, remains as elusive as ever - despite mounting pressure on the Serbian government to deliver him to the Hague, or face international isolation and even sanctions. The rampant speculation raised a number of questions about what is actually going on in that ever murky part of the world, the Balkans...