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The Balkans: “Trading Genocide for Independence”

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 @ 16:43 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Topics:: Ethnicity, History, Human Rights, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics

Bosnia Vault reports that “the EU has become much more lax over demands that Mladic be sent to the Hague; in exchange for Serbia not blocking Kosovo's ‘independence'.”

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