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Footage shown on Serbia RTS central TV shoved amateur footage of muslim Bosnian general Atif Dudakovic openlz ordering his soldiers via hand-radio to burn Christian Serb villages. tape sows Dudakovic telling "Burn this village, burn this haste, burn it all" ant than it ontinues "The boys are already down there, Iw ordered village to be burned" tape continues with male voice telling Dudakovic "This i sSerbian, this is all on fire" This was un continuation of Croate-Muslim offensive "Oluja" (Storm) that ethicaly cleansed 250,000 Christian Serbs in september 1995. During Dudakovic action over 870 Christian Serb civilliand and 400 soldiers...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The major powers voiced concern on Friday at tensions in northern Kosovo, where there are growing signs of Serb resistance as the majority Albanian province pushes for independence from Serbia. It did not specify which developments. Reports suggest Serbs there are strengthening what they say are self-defense groups made up of former military and police officers. "Both Belgrade and Pristina should take immediate steps to reduce tensions in northern Kosovo, particularly to encourage responsible leadership and build confidence among communities," said the statement, issued by the U.S. liaison office in Kosovo on behalf of the United States,...

Sarajevo, 2 August (AKI) - The newly signed agreement between Serbia and the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska (RS) to build a new bridge linking the two has become a bone of contention between Bosnian Muslim and Serb leaders. Muslim member of Bosnia-Hezegovina's three-man rotating state presidency, Sulejman Tihic. has slammed the deal terming it illegitimate and a conspiracy against Muslims. It was signed last week by RS prime minister, Milorad Dodik, and Serbian premier Vojislav Kostunica. Tihic said Dodik had no right to sign the agreement to build a modern bridge over the Sava River near the town of...

Apr 3 2006 2:17PM Moscow confirms Serbian media published actual Milosevic letter MOSCOW. April 3 (Interfax) - A copy of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry, published by the Serbian media in March, is identical to the original, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told Interfax on Monday. The Belgrade newspaper Politika published Milosevic's hand-written letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry for the first time on March 17. "That Serbian newspaper published a copy of Milosevic's letter identical to the Russian Foreign Ministry's copy. We understand the letter reached the Serbian media from Milosevic's lawyers,...

A former Serb soldier admitted at a trial Tuesday that he and other paramilitaries had executed about 200 Croat prisoners of war at a pig farm in 1991. Ivan Atanasijevic's testimony was the first open admission of the slaughter by one of the 16 defendants at the landmark war crimes trial in a special court in Belgrade. Since the trial started in December 2003, only a protected Serb witness has admitted taking part in one of the worst massacres of POWs during the brutal Balkan wars in the 1990s. During the fighting in late 1991, the Serb-controlled Yugoslav army advanced...