That helps to explain why the Republicans have been unable to use confusion in the conduct of the Yugoslav war to their electoral advantage.
UN's Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal at The Hague must be used to a bad press, especially over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian leader, which has gone badly.
One problem is that this process cannot be completed without the arrests of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leaders, who are still at large a decade after having been indicted by the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal.
By May 5th, the Pentagon was considering a reciprocal release of two Yugoslav prisoners of war.
That would not be thinkable today: death cannot be imposed by the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals even for the worst atrocities.
However, Mr Clinton rejected criticism of Nato's air war to drive Yugoslav forces out of predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo.
Even after reinforcement, there will be only about 8, 000 British troops in Macedonia, far too few to play more than a token part in a war against the Yugoslav army.
The U.S. and other institutions had threatened to boycott that meeting if the Yugoslav government did not move on war crimes suspects in Serbia.
Mladic returned to Belgrade after the war but disappeared after former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in 2001.
Clark, who returned this week after testifying at the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, Netherlands, weighed in on the case of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
He was the only the second serving head of state, after Slobodan Milosevic, the late Yugoslav president, to be indicted for war crimes. (Saddam Hussein, who is on trial now in Iraq, was not indicted until after he was toppled).
But as Yugoslavia began to disintegrate his party, which took directions from Serbia's authoritarian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, made preparations for war, distributing arms provided by the Yugoslav army.
He took part in the war in eastern Bosnia as a commander of a Yugoslav army corps.
He was indicted by the U.N. war crimes court in May 1999 for alleged atrocities committed by Yugoslav troops under his command against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Serbia has arrested former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, but has resisted transferring him for trial for alleged war crimes in Kosovo to a U.N. court in the Netherlands.
Among the allegations is that Milosevic ordered the bodies of ethnic Albanians killed by Yugoslav security forces in Kosovo brought to Serbia for burial in an attempt to avoid war crimes charges.
The Yugoslav Cabinet voted on Saturday to approve the decree that sets the terms for the extradition of war crimes suspects -- including Milosevic -- to The Hague.
ATHENS, Greece -- Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica says he will be too busy to meet the U.N. war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor when she visits Belgrade later this month.
The war in the Balkans meant that only Slovenia, the smallest and least affected of the former Yugoslav republics, was able to establish strong links with western economies.
On Wednesday, Serbia's justice minister told war crimes prosecutors in The Hague that a new law would be passed allowing the extradition of Yugoslav citizens -- a move that could allow Milosevic to be tried in The Hague.
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