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...Criminals. For their role in atrocities against Muslim civilians that have already provoked indictments from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, will be barred from participating in the Bosnian Serb government. Milosevic is still balking at Muslim demands that Karadzic and Mladic be extradited for trial in the Hague, despite a new round of genocide charges against the two last week for the alleged involvement in the July slaughter at Srebrenica. Nevertheless, the Serbian President has pledged to cooperate with the Tribunal...
...major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after a one-year transition period, which can be extended to two years by either party, with a U.N. administration during the transition...
...exclude Bosnian-Serb "president" Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic from political office in the country. But he has not agreed to the Bosnian demand that they be extradited to the Hague, where they have been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Last week, in a clear signal to Milosevic, the tribunal indicted two current and one former officer of the Yugoslav army for their role in the murder of 260 non-Serbs seized at a hospital in Vukovar in November 1991--the first time Belgrade has been explicitly implicated...
...fact, the single greatest political fact of the post-cold war world. With external enemies removed, with hybrid states no longer held together by hegemonic superpowers, the petty annoyances and existential difficulties of living in mixed-ethnic marriages within nation-states has become increasingly intolerable. From the former Yugoslavia to the former Czechoslovakia to the former Soviet Union, from Sri Lanka to Quebec, the tendency to separation is inexorable...
...under way outside the Dayton conference. Clinton, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, personally remonstrated with Tudjman about giving up the idea of using force. With good reason: it could pit the Croatian and Serbian armies against each other in the bloodiest war yet to tear the former Yugoslavia...