Word: yugoslavia
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...precondition to even starting membership negotiations. The two men are believed to be hiding in the Serbian mountains under the tacit protection of key politicians. The Netherlands is particularly keen to see the arrest of Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on genocide charges for his alleged role in the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbia handed over former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Hague last year, and Tadic has said he is committed to meeting Serbia's international obligations. But Mladic...
...Truth commissions, which are set up by governments to let victims and perpetrators tell their stories without fear of retribution, have run into similar resistance around the world. In 2001, ethnic-minority lawmakers in the former Yugoslavia complained that a short-lived truth commission had appointed too many majority Serbs, which, they argued, was an inappropriate demographic to investigate massacres of minorities that took place during the 1990s. Some victims in South Africa claimed that nation's truth commission - set up to investigate massacres and disappearances of the country's majority blacks in the second half of the 20th century...
...While on the run, he was protected by 80 armed men and was able to visit his wife regularly; in 2004 he published Miraculous Chronicles of the Night, a novel set in 1980s Yugoslavia, which won a Serbian book prize. A year later he released a book of poems, Under the Left Breast of the Century...
...because the Muslims cannot defend themselves if there is war. How will you prevent everyone from being killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina?" - Speaking before the Bosnian Parliament in October 1991 during a debate over whether to declare the Serb Republic sovereign. (The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Yale University Press...
...July 1995. After more than a decade on the run, living in Serbia under the assumed identity of a psychic healer named Dragan Dabic, the world's most wanted fugitive was finally captured in July 2008 and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted...