Word: krajina
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...coin to the opposing side in a dispute that is worth perhaps 50 billion times that amount. Pulses race, heads turn, eyes roll among the negotiators; each side digs its trench a little deeper. This is petro-diplomacy, Timor Sea style. "It's like dealing with the Krajina Serbs (in Croatia)," says Galbraith, a former U.S. Ambassador in Zagreb, describing the Australians, who on the second day of talks declared that Dili's top priority - lateral boundaries - was off the table...
...demanded to see him in the Hague. The tribunal's five-count indictment, unsealed on Sept. 20, charges Bobetko, the Croatian army's former Chief of Staff, with "crimes against humanity" and "violations of the laws or customs of war" during the conflict in the autonomous Serbian region of Krajina in 1993. Bobetko vows that he will never be tried by the international body. The old soldier - afflicted with heart disease, diabetes and walking difficulties - declared: "They can carry me out of my house only when I am dead. Not wounded. Dead." The indictment has roused a sleepy Croatian nationalism...