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My Meeting With the Monster of the Balkans

Karadzic was terrifying at negotating table, writes Holbrooke

Washington Post Washington Post Jul 23, 08 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Richard Holbrooke led the process that resulted in the Dayton Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia, he knew that sending Radovan Karadzic to the Hague was necessary to bring peace to the Balkans. Now, after 12 "inexcusable" years on the run, he has been arrested, and the former ambassador writes in the Washington Post of his only meeting with Karadzic, "whose enthusiastic advocacy of ethnic cleansing merits a special place in history." More »

 Gift Cows Give Hope
 to Kosovo War Widows 

Aid group helps heal the wounds of war in Europe's fledgling country

Radio Free Netherlands Jul 12, 08 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Dutch organization is helping steer Kosovo's war widows toward a brighter future, Radio Free Netherlands reports. Many were left to fend for themselves after losing loved ones in the war against Serbia; now the Dutch group The Bridge is giving them cows to put food on the table and earn money by selling milk. Each is obliged to give their cow's first-born calf to another woman. More »

More about:  Kosovo • cows • humanitarian aid • dairy products • reconstruction • Balkans War • widows

Brits Bust
Quiet Locksmith Suspected in
'91 War Crimes

Serb linked to brutal Balkan war massacres

Times (UK) Times (UK) Mar 26, 08 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A locksmith living quietly in northern England has been arrested for involvement in one of the most notorious massacres of the Balkan wars, reports the Times of London. Milorad Pejic, an ethnic Serb who now holds a British passport, faces trial for war crimes during the 87-day siege of Vukovar, the Croatian town where hundreds of men were tortured, murdered, and buried in mass graves. More »

More about:  Serbia • war crimes • Croatia • ethnic cleansing • Balkans War • Vukovar

Still Hunting the World's Most Wanted Man

12 years later, architect of Bosnian massacre remains at large

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Dec 2, 07 4:56 PM CST
(Newser) - He ordered mass murders, used gang-rape as a military weapon, and coined the term "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans War, but a dozen years later Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic still roams the hills where he once wrought havoc. With Karadzic still a fugitive from international justice, the Guardian traveled to rural Bosnia to discover why the West has failed so completely to capture him. More »

More about:  Serbia • fugitive • Radovan Karadzic • Balkans • Srebrenica • Balkans War

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