1.  In a separate incident, a key highway in the Serb state was closed for several hours overnight by Serb demonstrators.

2.  It is we who are the real defenders of the unified and independent Serb state, not Pale.

3.  Like Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot, the arch criminal at the head of the Serb state did not act alone.

4.  Serb state TV took a different tack, pretending that there was no strike.

5.  The Serb state was obliged to fight the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army, he said, acknowledging, however, that the rebels were already back in large numbers.

6.  The two decisions prompted demonstrations throughout the Serb Republic and protests from Serb politicians both in the Serb state and in the national government.

7.  Prosecutors said Talic and Brdjanin belonged to the Bosnian Serb leadership that conceived the creation of an ethnically pure Serb state in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

8.  Prosecutors say he was behind a systematic plan to create a larger Serb state through the forced expulsion and murder of non-Serbs in parts of those territories.

9.  Poplasen and his party have made no secret of their desire for an ethnically pure Serb state that would secede from Bosnia and join neighboring Serbia.

10.  Poplasen and his party have made no secret of their desire of an ethnic pure Serb state that would succeed from Bosnia and join neighboring Serbia.