Word: detainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special commission of inquiry to identify those responsible for Ndadaye's assassination and for the massacres that followed. But that task too is being delayed by lack of resources, commission members say. Moreover, even if the team were to name suspects, it would not have the means to detain them, since many almost surely retain key positions in the military and the coalition government...
...leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear that if NATO peacekeeping troops encounter Karadzic or Mladic, "We will do our best to detain them." The two were nowhere to be seen as Smith conducted his meetings. KICKING...
...rape and murder. The Serbs then moved on Zepa, and Mladic staged a surrender ceremony with some Bosnian civilians at an abandoned U.N. observation post outside town. But the government troops there, bolstered by escapees from Srebrenica, refused to go along with the capitulation because the Serbs intended to detain men ages 18 to 55 again...
...Bosnia, killing 76 people. It was the highest death toll in months and triggered a second air raid on other Pale ammunition dumps Friday that might have done serious damage: observers noted a heavy explosion and a thick column of smoke. The Serb response was to seize or detain more than 200 members of the U.N. peacekeeping force in various locations in Bosnia; some were merely kept under a sort of house arrest, but TV showed pictures of a few being held in chains at the ammunition dump and other likely bombing sites as human shields. The Serbs announced that...
Britain's antiterrorism fight also required changes in the nation's law as embodied in the 1974 Prevention of Terrorism Act. It gave police wider search powers than their counterparts enjoy in the U.S. It also permits them to detain suspects for seven days without charge, which would probably violate the habeus corpus provisions of American...