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Money Trail: How Paramilitaries’ Per Diems Proved Serbian Officials’ Guilt

Arkan’s men on Milosevic’s payroll Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic in Sanski Most in Bosnia in September 1995. Photo: EPA PHOTO/FILES. At the end of September 1995, Arkan and his Serbian Volunteer Guard ...
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UN Court’s Last Yugoslav Verdict Has Lessons for the Future

Funded by Serbia, fighters killed and tortured Serbian militia chief Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic in Sanski Most during the war in September 1995. Photo: EPA PHOTO/FILES. For non-Serbs, these units meant ...
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S.African court denies bail to Arkan killer

CAPE TOWN, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A South African court denied bail on Friday to the convicted killer of Serbian warlord "Arkan", saying he might try to flee to avoid extradition back to his native country ...
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How Bijeljina Became a ‘Blueprint for Genocide’ in Bosnia

The brutal ethnic cleansing of a Muslim-majority town in northeast Bosnia in the spring of 1992 set a pattern that Bosnian Serb forces would repeat across the country to devastating effect. This post ...
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Money Trail: How Paramilitaries’ Per Diems Proved Serbian Officials’ Guilt

Official allowances paid to paramilitaries involved in wartime crimes in Bosnia showed that Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic were responsible for killings and ...