Word: yugoslav
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...DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who presided over former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February due to grave health, and after two years of courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...SURRENDERED. MILORAD LUKOVIC, 39, former paramilitary leader suspected of masterminding the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic; in Belgrade. Lukovic, a onetime backer of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic, headed a feared antiterrorist police unit called the Red Berets. After Milosovic's 2000 fall from power, Lukovic initially supported Djindjic's administration, but he was soon removed from his police post...
...prosecutor of war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, this remarkable Canadian stood up to the bullies and stood up for the victims. She demonstrated courage and tenacity, compassion and tact. Above all, she demonstrated persistence. By working to bring to trial former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and many other government officials, Arbour was instrumental in raising the profile of the tribunal from relative obscurity to what many believe to be the most effective international criminal court ever. She returned home when she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada...
...will have these cases treated by our courts." He talks of Serbia's foreign interests lying not only in Washington and Brussels but also in Moscow, Beijing and with "our old ties" in the so-called nonaligned countries, a bloc co-founded in the 1960s by former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. Like the Radicals, Kostunica has nothing but scorn for the country's leaders, whom he accuses of "destroying the institutions of state" and subverting the rule of law. Kostunica has ruled out a coalition with the Radicals in any future government and claims he would not share power...
...with a full-page image of a dark, lifeless, abandoned space between blasted out buildings. Through Neven's personal history Sacco gives us the inside story of fighting against the Serbs during the siege. This job fell to loosely associated, legalized gangs headed by popular warlords. Trained in the Yugoslav army as a sniper, Neven joins a paramilitary unit made up of "distinguished sportsmen, all-in-all criminals, or a little bit of both," and commanded by Ismet Bajramovic, AKA Celo, a violent, handsome ex-convict with intense charisma...