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- THE WEEK, Page 15WORLDNuremberg in Bosnia
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- The U.S. proposes war-crimes trials of Serbs and Croats
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- 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.
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- 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.
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