Comrade Slobo

...State Department was able to assert in its annual human rights report that the murder, torture, rape, and starvation perpetrated by Serbian ethnic cleansers "dwarfs anything seen in Europe since Nazi times...

...Because Slobodan is able to sustain consistent work behavior and does not act impulsively (associates and adversaries alike describe him as shrewd and calculating), adult antisocial personality disorder should probably be ruled out...

...Assistant Secretary of State Thomas M.T...

...There has been no hint of vacillating in the U.N.'s strategy to sweetly coax Milosevic into civilized behavior...

...Colorless, dutiful, and conformist, "Milosevic was the perfect bureaucrat," says Yale Balkanist Ivo Banac...

...It's hard to talk about the meteoric rise of Serbia's dictator without a look at his unwitting accomplices, and in this regard the U.N...

...Since 1981, reports of Albanian repression of Serbian rights in Kosovo had been mounting, and Serbian out-migration had sharply increased...

...Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the Albanians in Kosovo, says ethnic cleansing of the province's two million ethnic Albanians is "still Milosevic's ultimate objective...

...In June 1989, Milosevic and church dignitaries jointly commemorated the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, a defeat of the Serbian army of King Lazar by the Ottomans that figures prominently in the Serbian mythology of unfulfilled conquest and occupation...

...Milosevic's Greater Serbia included the current Serbia, Montenegro (whose citizens consider themselves a subgroup of the Serbian nation), Bosnia-Herzegovina, approximately one-third of Croatia, and of course the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo...

...Panic blamed Milosevic's war policies for Serbia's international isolation and its "economic chaos...

...Yet one need not be...

...Milosevic still enjoys his greatest support among rural villagers...

...Belgrade TV had in fact already warned of "propaganda" about conditions in Zepa...

...Cold-blooded dictator, unquestionably...

...While "rape ha[d] been used as an instrument of ethnic cleansing," the U.N...

...A party coup in December 1987 brought to power the newborn nationalist, who immediately seized every opportunity as chief of Serbia's Communists to exploit a national delusion of Serb victimization...

...that complex ethnic hatreds are the simple root of the problem...

...George Kenney, the State Department official who, resigned last year over the Bush administration's inaction in Bosnia, calls him "just empty...

...and his consistent disregard for the truth for personal gain reflect aspects of this disorder...

...Three weeks later Sarajevo was being pounded with the heaviest Serb artillery shelling it had absorbed to date (161 rounds slammed into the city within one 24-hour period—more than twice that of previous levels...

...Popovic'sfindings are borne out by Western human rights reports from the early 1980s...

...Milosevic has only one secretary, and the offices of a handful of advisers are not even housed in the same building as the president's...

...In Serbia the Communists, now called the Serbian Socialist party, won 48 percent of the vote...

...Some who have had, contact with him recently talk of Slobodan being "disconnected from reality...

...He also unsentimentally disposed of his friend and mentor Ivan Stambolic, Serbia's state president, who had outlived his usefulness...

...History of disturbed familial relations...

...and Panic has given a tiny veneer of respectability to the Milosevic regime over the past year, fueling diplomatic hopes in the west that negotiations have not yet lost their utility...

...Kosovo is Serbia and will always be Serbia...

...In the often surreal world of Balkan politics, this is the gruesome sort of thing scholars analyze quantitatively...

...his failure to respect lawful behavior, honor obligations and agreements...

...Born a half century ago in Pozarevac, a small town fifty miles from Belgrade that is known for endemic syphilis and Serbia's biggest jail, Milosevic spent most of his career in apparatchik anonymity...

...A European Community report claimed in early January that Serbian forces had raped up to 20,000 Slavic women and girls as part of a systematic policy of terror designed to drive Bosnian families from their homes...

...Secretary of State Warren Christopher has vowed to bring "the full weight of American-diplomacy" to the search for a resolution of the conflict in Bosnia...

...In fact, bleak economic conditions had as much to do with the Serbian exodus as did discrimination at the hands of Albanian authorities...

...It was in consonance with the stated objectives of the Academy's memorandum that in late 1988 and early 1989 Milosevic began directing his harshest rhetoric at Vojvodina and Kosovo...

...officials and Secretary of State designate Warren Christopher, Vance's deputy at the Carter State Department, not to meet with the Bosnian leader lest they jeopardize the Geneva negotiations...

...Six of the amputations led to the patients' death...

...If this is not enough for the Croats, then we will take everything...

...Cyrus Vance...

...in three cases children had perished...

...He abolished the government and legislature of both provinces (and also of Montenegro), eliminating the semi-autonomy they had enjoyed since the 1974 Yugoslav constitution...

...Today they are "defending themselves and nothing more," he insists...

...He had already conceded to a French journalist in 1989 that he preferred "a system without parties...

...At this moment—now indelibly etched into Serbian nationalist mythology—Comrade Slobo stepped forward, commanding police to let his Serbs through: "Nobody," he told the assembled, "has the right to beat the people...

...At least the Croats had their own means, albeit limited, to mount .a defense...

...diplomat, "a pawn to be used...

...Both of Slobodan's parents (separated after the war) committed suicide: his father, an Eastern Orthodox theologian, when Slobodan was a teenager...

...Power is power, no matter the ideological mask...

...Acquaintances report a strained relationship between the two...

...The crowd became electrified...

...uch facts mattered little to Milosevic...

...After more than a dozen failed cease-fires, and the most recent collapse of peace talks in January, Cyrus Vance and David Owen left their sixth-floor suite of offices in the Palace of Nations in Geneva (seat of the old League of Nations) and descended on a new administration in Washington to enlist the means to enforce the U.N.'s latest plan...

...his preference for "loner status" (no friends or confidants...

...He is married to his high school sweetheart, Mirjana Markovic (the only girlfriend he ever had...

...Milosevic closed newspapers and used police to occupy the meeting places of local dissidents...

...Their different careers permit them little time together, says Slobodan...

...Patient Slobodan Milosevic...

...In late December Boutros-Ghali was pleading with the Security Council to delay implementation of a resolution to enforce a "no-fly zone" over Bosnia because of "subtle signs" of progress in the Geneva talks...

...When Bosnia's president Alija Izetbegovic visited Washington in early January, Vance was urging U.S...

...Vance," according to the New York Times), officials of the new administration have opted for modification of the peace plan...

...The most generous interpretation would be that they were simply duped into accepting the most popular myths that have cloaked Serb aggression: that the conflict is a civil war...

...We are victims of a cruel war...

...Kosovo is not merely another part of Serbia," Milosevic likes to say, "[it] is the heart of Serbia...

...Milosevic's mentor and rival moved back into banking...

...It is nearly as disturbing to confront the psychology of appeasement as it is to stare into the face of evil...

...thesis on "The Essence of Militarism and Fascism" into a doctrine of genocide...

...The relative moderation projected by Cosic...

...He wants war because he needs war to stay in power...

...President Clinton, who talked tough on Bosnia throughout his campaign, decided, at least for a moment, to rethink the hard line...

...He understands and responds only to violence and the threat of violence...

...Niles conceded to the Senate Armed Services Committee that Milosevic's determination to create a Greater Serbia posed "an enormous challenge to the international community...

...Lawyer, banker, politician...

...With much of the world now holding him culpable, it's no wonder Milosevic expresses gratitude for the "principled, impartial, and objective role that has been played by the United Nations...

...eanwhile, Milosevic had been disabling foes within Serbia in a painstakingly methodical fashion...

...They "threatened" Serbs and Montenegrins, "pressure[d] . . . them to emigrate," and "removed [them] from positions of power," lamented Cosic at the time...

...It is difficult to speculate on the motives that have driven Vance, Owen, Boutros-Ghali, and associates to coddle Milosevic...

...Kosovo is a police state today, but Milosevic still invokes it as a threat when he senses power slipping away...

...a psychologist to understand Serbia's ruler...

...Mike Harpke, a regional specialist at the University of Wisconsin, says the memorandum was "nothing more than a thinly veiled blueprint for ethnic cleansing...

...Nor had 70 percent of Zepa been razed by Serb artillery...

...His "preternatural" calm and often expressionless communication style can be contrasted with reports of personal staff that Slobodan is given to violent fits of rage when protesters march outside the presidential palace calling for his resignation...

...He organized demonstrations that forced local leaders from power, permitting installation of his own supporters who in Kosovo banned the use of the Albanian language in schools and media...

...envoy Vance "coincide entirely with the stand of the Republic of Serbia...

...current reclusion...

...In 1986, Cosic had been the leading author of a now infamous memorandum issued by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts that contended that Serbs were the most politically persecuted people of Yugoslavia...

...Brief reactive psychosis and major depression are possible complications...

...As Milosevic puts it, the peace proposals of U.N...

...But by the logic that, weapons only contribute to "a cycle of violence," Vance and his co-negotiator from the European Community, former U.K...

...He also has the characteristics of several personality disorders...

...Milosevic purged potential adversaries in the military and gave the armed forces a new mission: "the biological survival of the Serbian people," as one of Milosevic's generals stated it in regard to operations in Bosnia, where Serbs make up around a third of the population...

...I can give you a list," said Boutros-Ghali...

...He had also declared that "Serbia has no pretensions to the territory of other republics...

...official even proposed creating an "information agency to combat racial hatred" in the region...

...In summer 1991, for instance, Yugoslavia's air force bombed targets near Barcz in Hungary, claiming they were bases being used to train Croatian volunteers...

...They will not work because a negotiated settlement with war criminals is not a reliable way to reach a just peace...

...Serbs, who make up less than 10 percent of the population, are "not a minority in Kosovo," insists Milosevic, a master of cognitive dissonance...

...Not surprisingly, Karadzic participated in the meetings against the wishes of Alija Izetbegovic, who, as representative of the largest party in Bosnia's ruling coalition, declined an invitation to attend...

...Last August, one U.N...

...Preliminary Evaluation...

...As the United States dithered over Europe's newest turmoil and European leaders buried their heads in the sand, the worst thing that could have happened, happened—the United Nations was entrusted to resolve the crisis...

...Albanians by Albanians, and Albanians by Serbs...

...At the same time "Milosevic saw Cosic as he sees everyone," says one senior U.S...

...After Bosnia's deputy premier was summarily executed by Serbian militiamen while under U.N...

...And Milosevic, masterfully rechanneling intense animosity toward Communism into nationalistic hostility, was directly elected to the presidency with 65 percent of the electorate's support...

...But new plans, like the Vance-Owen proposals before them, will not work...

...With the world cowering, squeamish about other countries, notably Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey eventually being pulled into the fray, the conflict has already marginally spilled over into Italy, Austria, and Hungary...

...For a mercurial manipulator these apparent defections are not setbacks, but rather part of an addictive game of deception and illusion...

...foreign secretary Lord David Owen, have campaigned hard against modification of the international arms embargo, leaving the Slavic Moslem Bosnians at the mercy of their Serbian predators...

...Aspects of schizoid personality disorder are reflected by his restricted range of emotional experience and expression (his cold, aloof manner...

...Vance had thanked Milosevic, who "had worked hard" and "contributed much" to the talks, and Lord Owen remained confident that their team had in hand "a serious negotiated, comprehensive peace settlement," as he told CNN...

...It was a simple, dangerous fact, Milosevic sustained as his mantra, "that Serbia's enemies outside [and] in the country are plotting against it...

...Izetbegovic managed to contact Bush's national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and—after quite a bit of "hand-wringing," one Clinton aide told Newsweek—met with transition members Leon Fuerth and Jenonne Walker...

...Milosevic may be waiting for a powerful ally in the successor to Boris Yeltsin, who, under pressure from the right, has taken more of a pro-Belgrade tilt in recent months...

...There were actually three doctors among the 25,000 inhabitant town (mostly war refugees), not just one as had been previously reported...

...51 years old, married, two children: a daughter, 27 years old...

...That same month, when a convoy finally visited the besieged town of Zepa, east of Sarajevo (three previous attempts to get through had been aborted by deep snow and gunfire), U.N...

...Responding to the violent tremors that were shattering the Soviet bloc, the six Yugoslav republics held elections in 1990, with Communist parties defeated everywhere except Montenegro and Serbia...

...Slobodan has diabetes (probably insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus...

...Although "pale and weakened," people were not starving, as Bosnian authorities had claimed (most were surviving on dried meat and a kind of bread made out of straw...

...Although often occupationally impaired, some patients with this disorder sustain high occupational achievement under conditions of social isolation (the Byzantine ways of Communist politics...

...He spends most of his time working, though reclusively, as even high-ranking officials report limited access to the "little Mussolini...

...and his self-absorbed, at times absent-minded demeanor ("disconnected from reality...

...his mother, a schoolteacher and orthodox Communist from a prominent upper-middle class family, when he was 33...

...that it is a war about religion, not about land...

...After reportedly "agonizing" over the Vance-Owen plan (because of the "deep respect felt for Mr...

...Slobodan has no close friends...

...In April 1987, Milosevic was attending a meeting of three hundred party delegates (mostly ethnic Albanians) in Kosovo Polje, a suburb of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, when a crowd of Serbs and Montenegrins tried to force their way into the meeting hall...

...Even Cosic has distanced himself from the war and criticized his patron, though most observers believe he remains committed to a "kinder, gentler" ethnic cleansing in Bosnia...

...But more frequently he absolves the Serbs...

...o what of the man behind the madness...

...His file and initial diagnosis might look something like this: In-Take Report...

...Slobodan also had an uncle, an army officer, who committed suicide when Slobodan was young...

...The EC reports on Serbian use of rape as "an instrument of war" were followed within weeks by the U.N.'s own document on the subject...

...The game for expansion was afoot...

...officials declared the situation "less dramatic than expected...

...and] by Mr...

...When Milosevic speaks, whether to associates or to a crowd, he is stoic, at times sullen...

...Mirjana, who comes from a prominent Communist family, also experienced a troubled childhood...

...While Milosevic claimed in principle to respect democratic outcomes elsewhere, he also sought, quite predictably, to retain Yugoslavia's unity with Serbian dominance...

...Milosevic turned on Stambolic by accusing him of betraying the Serbs in Kosovo...

...As a result of Serbian "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia tens of thousands are dead (by official count 25,000...

...There is only one thing that matters to Slobo Milosevic," says an associate, "and that is Slobo Milosevic...

...I never saw anyone investso much of their influence, their power, in another person as Ivan Stambolic invested in Slobodan Milosevic," Draza Markovic, Milosevic's uncle by marriage told the New York Times's Stephen Engelberg...

...We found in our research," says Popovic, himself a Serb and author of a book on human rights in Kosovo, "that the ratio of Albanian rapes of Serbian women was lower than the rape of Serbs by Serbs...

...The rape reports were "greatly exaggerated," says Srdja Popovic, a well-known Belgrade human rights lawyer now living in the United States...

...The embargo devastates the lightly armed Bosnians, whose initial passivity allowed Serb forces to build camps, roads, and gun deployments on hills overlooking targeted cities...

...Mirjana, described by acquaintances as a "severe, intolerant" woman, is a professor of Marxist theory and chief ideologist of a hard-line Marxist party...

...However, his aggressive behavior, if by proxy...

...Security Council, "failed to adhere to the Standing Operating Procedures normally applied to the escort of civilian VIPs, including prior reconnaissance, an adequate strength of [armored vehicles] and special briefings on procedures to be followed...

...In the face of unrestrained Serbian aggression, first in Croatia, then in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Vance and his U.N...

...In Kosovo the "physical, political, legal, and cultural genocide against the Serb population," as the authors of the memorandum put it, cried out for intervention...

...Milosevic is S a typical Bolshevik," says one high-ranking State Department official...

...It's not inconceivable that even a national icon like Cosic could one day become expendable...

...Indeed, Milosevic and his allies called for the enlargement of Serbia to a new state of 14 million, of which more than 9 million would be Serbs...

...Milosevic became Stambolic's number two, as chief of the Serbian Communist party...

...But as Yugoslavia disintegrated, he was busy drafting a blueprint for a "Greater Serbia" that was in place by 1991...

...Amidst the general discontent caused by Communism," observes Mihajlo Mihajlov, the Tito-era dissident who now works for Radio Free Europe, "it was easy to whip up hysteria by accusing Tito, who was a Croat, of having pursued anti-Serb policy...

...Suddenly there S was a psychological change in him [as he discovered] this power over people," as one Serbian journalist put it...

...Slobodan and Mirjana were a "humorless, loner" couple in their teens, seldom associating with other classmates...

...But as stories spread by local Serbs of Albanian atrocities took hold, especially the allegation that Albanians were targeting Serbian women for politically motivated rape, Serb delegations began to smother Belgrade with demands for action...

...B y the time war brushed Slovenia (which had no Serbian minority), then more forcefully Croatia, then even pitiful little Bosnia, many of Milosevic's supporters were losing their stomach for Slobo's crusade...

...Milosevic also drew Serbian ultranationalist and novelist Dobrica Cosic under his wing, seeing to it that Cosic, whom many Serbs view as the spiritual father of their nation, was elected president of the new "Yugoslavia" (the Serb-Montenegrin federation) last June...

...In fact his pattern of behavior has been so astonishingly simple that it makes the inadequate response of Western diplomats bewildering...

...Another American diplomat who has dealt with Milosevic for years says he's "devoid of human sentiment...

...A quarter ,of a century ago, Cosic had criticized Communist officials for ignoring what he called the "chauvinistic bent and nationalist psychosis" among Albanians in Kosovo...

...peace team tops the list...

...Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali snapped at an overly empathetic journalist in Sarajevo this winter, instructing the reporter, with professorial pedantry, that Bosnia is "better off than ten other places in the world...

...Unlike the EC findings, though, the U.N.'s assessment sought balance...

...citizen who, as Comrade Slobo's hand-picked prime minister, was allowed to act out his fantasies as peacemaker until he pushed too far...

...a state-owned energy company, and president of Beobanka, the United Bank of Belgrade...

...his lack of remorse regarding the deliberate injury of others...

...representatives did not challenge the doctors' grisly report, however, that they had already carried out thirty-six amputations, seven of them on children, without anesthetics, using a hacksaw...

...would seek the prosecution of ten war criminals involved in Balkan atrocities—seven were Serbs, with Milosevic heading the list...

...The Orthodox church, previously a devoted ally, has indirectly called for an end to Milosevic's rule...

...Milosevic had quietly referred to things to come in his 1989 autobiography, Godina Raspleta (Outcome of Events), writing that "those areas and individuals whose interests are being imperiled will be against . . . the changes" already on the horizon...

...Finally, Slobodan's extreme reaction to criticism and rejection (when demonstrators protest), his lack of empathy, his avoidance of natural interpersonal contact, his exploitative use of relationships, and his preoccupation with power all reflect aspects of narcissistic personality disorder...

...Slobodan probably suffers from depression (family history of suicide...

...Complicity in serial murder, rape, mayhem, extortion...

...a son, 18...

...When Stambolic moved to politics in the mid-1980s, assuming the presidency of Serbia, his protégé was not far behind...

...He followed Stambolic's footsteps, for instance, as director of Technogas...

...But have the U.N.'s negotiators become entangled with a clinically disturbed soul...

...are not easily moved, though...

...It is to Seselj that Milosevic points when he brazenly cautions his detractors of the "dark, conservative forces" gathering within the country...

...He wants the whole of Bosnia...

...colleagues steadfastly rejected moves to allow Serbia's beleaguered neighbors to defend themselves...

...Armed with grievances about hardships in Kosovo (whose population in the early 1980s was 77 percent ethnic Albanian), they found their way blocked by local police, who used force to prohibit the mob's entry...

...Serbian vice president Budimir Kosutic, a "friend" from college days, hasn't set foot in Milosevic's house or had contact with hiswife in some twenty years...

...At times he concedes, with gentle assurance, that "no one is blameless in Bosnia...

...In all our history," says Milosevic, "the Serbian people never waged any aggressive war...

...As Bosnian vice president Ejup Janie puts it: "Slobodan Milosevic is riding a bicycle he can only stop now by crashing...

...But no one seriously expected Milosevic to give up power even if he had lost...

...He permitted limited independent print media for window-dressing "pluralism" in Belgrade, understanding that the vast majority of Serbs rely on state-controlled television for their news...

...While both sides import clandestinely, the Bosnians, with a handful of artillery pieces and tanks, some mortars and shoulder-fired rocket launchers, face Serb commands who have been the principal beneficiaries of the Yugoslav armed forces' materiel and equipment...

...Cosic still maintains that it's "absolute nonsense" to claim that Serbs have been the aggressor in the war...

...Slobodan isolates himself in a walled mansion in Dedinje, an affluent Belgrade suburb...

...0 f course, the human personality is complex, and circumstances will likely never permit a serious investigation of Slobodan Milosevic's mental state...

...As Milosevic has had his use for the likes of Panic and Cosic, on the right he has also been able to manipulate Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian radical party, the second-largest in the parliament...

...He wants it all," Izetbegovic was already warning...

...guard in Sarajevo (he was killed while Izetbegovic was in Washington), Boutros-Ghali had the amazing effrontery to fault the Bosnian governlnent...

...0 fficials at the U.N...

...His critics in Belgrade have made much of the fact that the instigator of the war has never bothered to visit his soldiers in the field, nor does he extend sympathy to the families of the fallen...

...more than 1.6 million people are homeless...

...It's no wonder many observers believe Kosovo will be the real powder keg in former Yugoslavia, with the Bosnian bloodbath just a prelude...

...If "nationalism is the last stage of Communism," as Polish intellectual Adam Michnik has contended, then the Milosevic variety could be a harbinger of dark developments in other corners of the expired Soviet empire...

...They'd have plenty to mull over...

...The Bosnians, wrote Boutros-Ghali in a letter to the U.N...

...fter three years of emboldening the Serbs—first A by supporting Milosevic's bid to retain Yugoslav unity by force, later by ruling out punitive actions against Serb forces—the Bush administration chose to stiffen its rhetoric during its final months in office...

...Serbian intellectuals, who originally supported Milosevic, have turned against him, and the opposition in Belgrade, a portion of it democratic, has overcome its initial anemia...

...Imagine for a moment the stocky, middle-aged Milosevic uncooperatively sitting in a clinic, say in Davos, dressed in one of his favorite dark pinstriped suits with a starched white shirt, puffing on his Dutch cigarillos (his only indulgence) as doctors puzzle over him...

...Simply, negotiations will not work because Milosevic wants war...

...The Serb has taken a vow to stay in Kosovo...

...Her mother was executed by Communists after the war for divulging information about partisans while under Nazi arrest...

...The President himself warned Milosevic in a letter delivered in late December that military intervention was certain if the conflict spread to Kosovo...

...One former associate says he expects Milosevic to leave power one day with a bullet in his head, "probably by his own hand...

...In a 1991 interviewwith Der Spiegel, Seselj bluntly conceded his desire to reduce Croatia "to as much as one can see from the tower of the cathedral in Zagreb...

...Vance's friend Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 'the Egyptian diplomat in charge of the United Nations, has followed a strategy predicated on the belief that Milosevic can be enticed into peace by concessions...

...let them rape, we shall rape, too," swore one agitator...

...Srdja Popovic told me he once had the chance to ask Cosic about his first impressions of Milosevic...

...It had been thanks to indispensable support from Stambolic that Milosevic had risen through the ranks of Communist-controlled companies and banks during his early professional years...

...Belgrade's official press service Tanjug reported that "citizens spontaneously sang the national anthem Hej Sloven,' and shouted the slogan 'Freedom, we want freedom . . . we will not give up Kosovo.'" Milosevic was entranced: he stayed in the building until dawn nearly thirteen hours patiently listening to tales of Serbian persecution...

...acknowledged in a press statement, "[the] crime of rape had been committed by combatants on all sides of the conflict . . . [and there was] no reliable method of establishing . . . figures" for rape victims: Methodological difficulties notwithstanding, the U.S...

...He avoids public appearances and speeches...

...The only word I get could from him," says Popovic, "was 'fascinating.' It was as if Cosic, an intellectual and artist, had become spellbound by Milosevic, the practitioner, a man who possessed both the will and the means to actually implement the ideas that Cosic held so close to his heart...

...That was until six years ago, when suddenly he discovered the magical, intoxicating power of Serbian nationalism...

...He allowed government-manipulated elections last December, winning nearly 57 percent...

...To cloak himself more authentically in the mantle of Serbian nationalism Milosevic embraced the Serbian Orthodox church...

...The Serbs had actually agreed to end the siege of Sarajevo and four other cities last August...

...In August of that year, Serbia's leader summoned to Belgrade officials bf the republics of Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the latter represented by Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic, to date Milosevic's chief proxy in the Bosnian ethnic cleansing campaign...

...Milosevic has used Cosic much as he used Milan Panic, the naive Serbian-born U.S...

...Serb militants in Kosovo have called for Seselj, who now advocates "ethnic cleansing" inside Serbia itself, to be named defense minister so he can "declare open war" on ethnic Albanians...

...Seselj, who performed admirably as Milosevic's agent in the campaign that ousted Panic from parliament in December, is an unmasked ethnic cleanser who has turned his Ph.D...

...While the president's representative to the U.N., Edward J. Perkins, denounced Belgrade's "vile policy of 'ethnic cleansing' " and "egregious" abuse of human rights, Lawrence Eagleburger, James Baker's successor at the State Department and the principal spokesman for the Bush policy of passive acquiescence, announced that the U.S...

...Indeed hysteria was soon to become the order of the day...