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THE WEEK, Page 15WORLDNuremberg in Bosnia
The U.S. proposes war-crimes trials of Serbs and Croats
The charges, essentially of mass murder of civilians, have
become as repetitious as they are ghastly, until U.S. Secretary
of State Lawrence Eagleburger managed to strip away the
familiarity and make the accusations arresting again. He named
seven Serbs, two Croats and one Muslim allegedly responsible for
such atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia; the accused ranged from
the very obscure (concentration-camp commander Drago Prcac) to
the globally notorious (Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic).
All, said Eagleburger, should be hauled before an international
court of justice -- a "second Nuremberg" -- and tried for war
crimes.
No international body, however, has any practical means of
apprehending these men, and the U.S. has no proposals. So what
was the point? Possibly to influence Serbs to vote against
Milosevic in the elections that were scheduled Sunday, by
reminding them that their country will be a pariah as long as
Milosevic lasts. More probably, by highlighting atrocities, the
U.S. may have won support for a United Nations resolution
approved by the General Assembly on Friday that proposed lifting
the arms embargo against Bosnia and establishing a no-fly zone
over the region.