Word: yugoslav
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Along the way, their pusillanimous policies have discredited all the institutions that touched the conflict. The UN, in the midst of a post-Cold Wal renaissance when the Yugoslav conflict began, now stands guilty of abetting Serb aggression. NATO, fresh from victory against the Warsaw pact has shown itself impotent in its own backyard...
...first international war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo indicted a Bosnian Serb camp commander on charges connected with ethnic cleansing of Muslims. The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, formed by the U.N. a year ago, issued a warrant today against Dragan Nikolic, who is accused of killing eight Muslim prisoners. He is also charged with torture, plunder and the illegal imprisonment of 500 Bosnian Muslims after Serbs overran the Bosnian city of Vlasenica in April1992. The trial isn't imminent -- Nikolic's precise whereabouts aren't known.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...evil unacceptable, and it is not through more outraged statements. It was done before at a place called Nuremberg. There, the International Military Tribunal assigned guilt for the war and the genocide the Nazis launched. The tribunal system has recently been revived to address the crimes committed in the Yugoslav war, and the United Nations Security Council is considering expanding its jurisdiction to cover Rwanda. It must be done. Through its agony, Rwanda has presented the international community with an unmistakable chance to begin the enforcement of international law and humanity...
...Administration has compiled evidence of high-level involvement. "We can piece together a heck of a lot," says a U.S. official. A recent State Department report cites evidence that Mladic had "overall responsibility for the camp system." One witness, a Croat who had been an officer in the regular Yugoslav army and later spent 14 months in various Serb-run detention centers, testified that Mladic in some cases decided the fate of individual prisoners. "The Serb detention camps and prison system in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in occupied Croat territory was an integrated entity organized under the corps structure...
...Society for Threatened Peoples has evidence that 150 Yugoslav suspects may be living in Germany. Most are Serbs, but the society's list also includes Croats and at least two Muslims. Authorities have launched investigations into 10 occurrences involving 30 individuals suspected of "conspiracy to commit genocide...