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...Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal today indicted General Mladic, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and 21 other Serb officials for genocide and crimes against humanity. Despite the indictments, the tribunal is unlikely to put the suspects on trial, since Serbs in Serbia and Bosnia refuse to hand over the suspects. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says the proceedings will mean little until the military conflict is over -- and that Muslim names are sure to be on the list...
TIME: It supported independence in large part because arms were coming from Serbia, because paramilitaries came from here, and because the Yugoslav army supported the Serbs...
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and two of his lieutenants will beinvestigated as suspected war criminalsby the U.N.'s Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. The tribunal will investigate Karadzic, Bosnian Serb army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and the former head of the Bosnian Serb special police Mico Stanisic for genocide, torture and rape. The action does not include formal charges against the men but the investigation is expected to result in charges. The tribunal has indicted twenty-two Serbs forcrimes including genocide, murder and rape, but only one, Dusan Tadic, is in custody. He was extradited by Germany...
...Indeed, they do "occupy'' that soil, just as you or I occupy our apartments or homes. These Serbs own the land where their homes and farms are located, so one cannot honestly speak of their "stealing'' it. Until the Croatian government unilaterally left Yugoslavia, the "soil'' in question was Yugoslav soil...
...record, not explicitly -- a further sop to the aggressors, if only they would cease further killing. That prospective inducement looked very much like a prize that the U.S., particularly since Clinton became President, has sought expressly to deny the "ethnic cleansers": formation of a Greater Serbia between the rump Yugoslav state and the Serbs in breakaway Bosnia and Croatia. Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe were to visit Belgrade this week to consult on the initiative with Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's nationalistic President...