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...witnesses whom prosecutors plan to call in the newest phase of Milosevic's war-crimes trial - dealing with "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - he is due to testify on Oct. 1. The accusations against Bobetko stem from a nine-day Croatian military operation in rural Krajina's "Medak pocket." From Sept. 9 to 17, 1993, according to the indictment, Croatian forces attacked and plundered Serb villages, unlawfully killing at least 100 Serbs while others were shot, stabbed, mutilated and otherwise inhumanely treated. As the army's most senior commander, Bobetko "played a central role" in the operation...
...Rahim Ademi voluntarily surrendered to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague to answer charges of crimes against humanity. The general, who arrived wearing his uniform and medals, is the first Croatian to appear before the court. The charges against him relate to a Croatian assault on the Medak pocket in 1993, when Croatian soldiers under his command murdered at least 38 Serbs. He pleaded not guilty. SWITZERLAND Another "No" Having withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions and turned down proposals to curb the trade in small arms, the U.S. further dismayed international opinion by rejecting...
...spilled on these occasions, so a sex- and-violence equivalency is established. There is also a bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft-core porn and, since it is written by a woman, something for Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon to ponder...
...Medak treats the other women in Jack's life with equal abandon. Both Sciorra's Natalie and Lewis' Sheri are intriguing, albeit abbreviated, performances. It is therefore disappointing to see their characters relegated to prop status, as both women only seem to appear so that they can later disappear...
Mona, however, is another story. As a larger than life she-devil, Olin plays her with wonderfully demonic wickedness. She brandishes a deranged laugh as well as she does a pistol. Unfortunately, Medak gives us no insight (aside form an out-of-left-field tale of her losing her virginity) into why she is indeed so bad. She is instead figure with pseudo-super powers and an inexplicable penchant for evil. That Olin must parade around in stiletto heels and garters only erodes her character's credibility even further...