Word: yugoslavic
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...Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs of raping Muslim women. It marked the first instance in which the tribunal has defined sexual offenses as crimes against humanity. The three men -Dragoljub Kunarac, a former commander in the Bosnian Serb army, and former paramilitary leaders Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic-received sentences ranging from 12 to 28 years for brutalizing women in 1992 and 1993 in the southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims...
...Belgrade Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte met strong resistance to her attempts to persuade Yugoslav authorities to extradite former strongman Slobodan Milosevic from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under...
...thing, whether a Yugoslav citizen should be turned over to the Hague tribunal or be tried at home. But on a deeper level, it's about how, or whether, to confront crimes committed in the name of Serbia during the wars of the past decade...
...orgy of street celebrations and political intrigue, Zoran Djindjic was largely out of sight. But last week Serbia's dynamic opposition leader returned to the stage as the country's first post-Milosevic Prime Minister. It's a crucial job. As Kostunica struggles to preserve the defunct Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro, Djindjic will have to jump-start the moribund economy and modernize the country, while selling the world on the idea of a new Serbia...
...sign that some Albanians won't be taking no for an answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with Belgrade before the Bush Administration carries out its threat to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The new government of President Vojislav Kostunica is prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room for more fighting inside Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, and the furor in NATO over...