1. Serb commanders have offered Moslem civilians safe passage out of eastern Bosnia. 2. Aside from the dispute over a resolution, the Serb commanders are reportedly pressing NATO to keep the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army from attacking the withdrawing Serb forces. 3. At the same time, the State Department warned nine Serb commanders by name that they could be held accountable for any war crimes their forces commit. 4. Bildt blamed Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Serb military commander, for preventing Serbs from attending the conference. 5. But a Serb commander ordered his soldiers to finish the work the next day. 6. For three years, Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serb commander Ratko Mladic have persuaded the outside world that they are utterly uncompromising fanatics who will stop at nothing. 7. Ms. Bang-Jensen and others have said timely, aggressive investigations of abuses could have been a deterrent to Serb commanders. 8. On Wednesday, for instance, Marines saw two Albanians beating a Serb paramilitary commander and there were threats made against others. 9. --The US government named nine Serb commanders who could face prosecution for war crimes. 10. To fortify his position, the Serb commander in Prizren has dragooned civilians, put them in military uniforms and ordered them to dig trenches. |