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Striving to overcome his limited English and express himself beyond his written speech, Bagaric, a Bosnian of Croat descent, stressed the importance of interethnic and international exchange among Bosnia's ethnic groups...
DIED. MATE BOBAN, 57, chauvinistic Bosnian Croat leader who spearheaded the creation of the short-lived Croatian statelet of Herzeg-Bosna; of a stroke; in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 Boban waged a vicious campaign against Muslims in his drive for an ethnically pure Croatian republic...
...thugs behind the bulk of Bosnia's war crimes, Bosnian Serbs Tuesday were cast as the victims, detailing horrific scenes of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Muslim a nd Croatian prison officials for a hushed United Nations tribunal. The trial of three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before the U.N. tribunal about conditions in the Celebici concentration camp, set up by Muslim...
...country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option he has considered would be dividing the city into three equal parts, with an international governor administering a free port, the Muslim-Croat federation taking the western half of the city and the Serbs taking the east. Before the Serbs seized Brcko...
...long been a fierce advocate of independence for the Serb Republic, had as recently as Sunday said that the meeting might not come off. "He could easily have refused to meet at all, just claim he had important prior commitments," says Calabresi. Krajisnik, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and Croat leader Kresimir Zubak agreed to release all prisoners of war not wanted on war crimes charges, to form an ethnically mixed cabinet, and reconnect phone service between the Serb region and the rest of Bosnia. Most importantly, the men agreed upon a second meeting and set a date for the opening...