| February 26, 2007 | - Jurists in The Hague ruled that a genocide occurred when Bosnian Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims at Srebrinca in 1995. Serbia, said the court, was responsible for not preventing the genocide—but not directly responsible for the genocide itself—and is thus absolved of any obligation to pay reparations.
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New York Times
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| April 15, 2005 | -
Bosnia was exporting snails.
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BBC News
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| June 12, 2004 | - Officials from the Bosnian Serb republic admitted that its military took part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered and dumped into mass graves.
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CNN
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| May 1, 2004 | -
Bosnian Serb officials revealed six new mass graves containing victims of the Srebrenica massacre.
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Reuters
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| December 8, 2003 | - Another Bosnian Serb, a general, was given 20 years for the siege of Sarajevo.
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Washington Times
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| December 3, 2003 | - The United Nations war-crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced a Bosnian Serb commander to 27 years in prison for his role in the Srebrenica massacre.
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New York Times
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| November 22, 2003 | - The United Nations war-crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia heard testimony from Miroslav Deronjic, a former Bosnian Serb politician, that Radovan Karadzic gave the order in 1995 to slaughter the Muslim men and boys of Srebrenica: "At one moment, he said the following sentence to me: 'Mirsolav, all of them need to be killed — whatever you can lay your hands on.'"
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New York Times
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| November 13, 2003 | - The president of the rump Yugoslavia apologized for "any evil or disaster that anyone from Serbia and Montenegro caused to anyone in Bosnia-Herzegovina."
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Agence France-Presse
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| September 16, 2003 | -
Bosnia began accepting bids for 105 tanks, 20,000 machine guns, 13,000 submachine guns, 21 missiles, and 13 million pieces of artillery and ammunition that were left over from its civil war.
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Reuters
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| October 8, 2002 | -
Croatian president Stjepan Mesic testified against Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague and accused Milosevic of creating “rivers of blood” in his quest for a Greater Serbia: “He subordinated everything to his war goals; he was always working for the war option.” Biljana Plavsic, the former president of the Bosnian Serb republic, pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity at the Hague.
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| July 2, 2002 | -
The United Nations issued a report on China's AIDS crisis characterizing the epidemic there as “beyond belief.” The United States vetoed the renewal of the U.N.
peacekeeping mission in Bosnia because American peacekeeping troops were not exempted from prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
One, asked if the Administration recognized Chávez as the legitimate president of Venezuela, replied that “legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters.” Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said: “I think you have to be very careful about advance knowledge of a specific act and general talk of unease in a nation like Venezuela that has been marked by a very difficult internal democratic situation.” Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut observed that the Administration's performance on Venezuela cried out for “more adult supervision.” The government of the Netherlands resigned after a report by a human rights group concluded that the Dutch government must share the blame for the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys by Serbs in Srebrenica, Bosnia, where a small battalion of Dutch peacekeepers had been stationed.
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| February 26, 2002 | -
Cheney has refused to release such information, citing “executive privilege.” British peacekeepers in Bosnia discovered a hermit, a Serb, who had been hiding in the mountains, unaware that the war had ended, since Croat authorities executed his brothers in 1996.
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| November 27, 2001 | - In Bosnia, 305 bodies were exhumed from a mass grave; the victims were probably from Srebrenica, where 7,000 unarmed men and boys were massacred in 1995.
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| July 10, 2001 | - A mass grave was found in eastern Bosnia that was believed to contain over 200 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, where about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serbs in 1995.
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| July 10, 2001 | - The Bosnian Serb republic announced that it now was willing to arrest indicted war crimes suspects; about 20 such fugitives, including Dr. Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, are believed to be living there.
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| February 27, 2001 | - A war-crimes tribunal convicted three Serbs of sexually enslaving Muslim girls and women during the Bosnian war.
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| January 9, 2001 | - Exposure to depleted uranium, which was used in NATO's bombings of Kosovo, Bosnia, and Serbia, was thought to be responsible.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Radislav Krstic, a Bosnian-Serb general, was standing trial at the Hague for war crimes connected to the massacre at Srebrenica; prosecutors played a tape of a radio intercept in which Krstic said, “Kill each and every one of them.
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| October 3, 2000 | - A New York jury ordered Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb war criminal, to pay $4.5 million in damages for presiding over a policy of rape, torture, and genocide in Bosnia.
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