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	Army of Republika Srpska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bosnian Serb Army, officially Army of the Republika Srpska (Serbian Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske, ВРС/VRS) is the military of the Bosnian Serb political entity of Republika Srpska.
		The Bosnian Serb Army was founded in 1992 from the forces of the old Yugoslav People's Army, the army of former Communist Yugoslavia from which Bosnia and Herzegovina had seceded the same year.
		The military leader of BSA was general Ratko Mladić, who is now indicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of war crimes but is not apprehended.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bosnian_Serb_Army (213 words)

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		The Bosnian Serb Command said that all its defense lines were stable and that the Bosnian Serb Army had a strategic initiative in the western parts of the front.
		It said that the Bosnian Serbs were at the same time defending themselves from the NATO air operation with success, and the downing of a number of aircraft in NATO combat actions was proof of this.
		The Bosnian Serb TV carried a story showing a house completely demolished by the shelling in which a man was killed and a woman and two children injured.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/yds/1995/95-09-07.yds.txt (2399 words)

	NewStandard: 8/27/97
		An ally of Karadzic declared that the future of the Serb republic, 49 percent of Bosnia, was at stake.
		Splitting the army, he said, was the "final task" in a project aimed at destroying the Serbs' republic, he said.
		Bosnian Serbs opposed the move and waged a 3½-year war in part to try to prevent secession from Serbia-dominated Yugoslavia.
	www.s-t.com /daily/08-97/08-27-97/a06wn028.htm (815 words)

	Diplomats Welcome Ouster of Bosnian Serb General
		Although there has been serious friction between Bosnian Serb civilian and military leaders for some time, the President made it known beginning three weeks ago, according to diplomats, that she was going to dismiss most of the general staff.
		Diplomats said she had become upset with the fact that almost all senior officers in the Bosnian Serb forces are from the Yugoslav Army and are still paid by Yugoslavia.
		In response to the threats to dismiss them, senior officers have renewed their longstanding criticisms that Bosnian Serb political leaders are corrupt and are trying to turn the army into a creature of the governing political party.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/bosnia/context/111010serb.html (581 words)

	Arming the Bosnian Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The federation army, made up of Muslim and Croatian elements that quarrel more than they cooperate, is the force in the half of the country not controlled by the Bosnian Serb army.
		The federation army's strength will increase markedly with the addition of those new weapons and training, but it is impossible to determine whether it would then be an equal match for the Bosnian Serb army.
		Although the Bosnian Serbs still have more artillery pieces, their strength is difficult to measure, diplomats say, because of internal problems among their commanders and the political authorities who oversee them.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bosarmy.htm (1087 words)

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		The Bosnian Serb Army is required to pull out of range of the Sarajevo safe area and from the Serb part of Sarajevo, he said, while no such request is made of the 17 Muslim and three Croat brigades and six battalions with 35,000 troops and 865 heavy weapons also there.
		SERBS PREPARE PULLOUT FROM AROUND SARAJEVO B e l g r a d e, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - The Bosnian Serb Army is collecting heavy weapons in several barracks around Sarajevo in obvious preparation for a withdrawal, a U.N. spokeswoman in Sarajevo said late on Monday.
		SERB ARMY CONFIRMS DOWNING OF SPY PLANE B i l e c a, Sept. 4 (Tanjug) - Bosnian Serb Army sources on Monday confirmed that its anti-aircraft defence had on Saturday downed a reconnaissance-spy 'predator' aircraft over the region between the towns of Mostar and Nevesinje, Southeastern Bosnia.
	www.hri.org /news/agencies/yds/1995/95-09-05.yds.txt (1912 words)

	RTE News - Former Bosnian Serb army commander to face War Crimes Tribunal
		A former Bosnian Serb army commander has been flown to The Hague to face trial for alleged war crimes after being arrested by international peacekeepers in Bosnia.
		He was in charge of a Bosnian Serb army brigade near Srebrenica at the time.
		The massacre was the worst atrocity of the Bosnian conflict.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0416/hague.html (429 words)

	Bosnian Serb army destroys its small arms surplus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bosnian Serb army on Thursday began to destroy its 5,000-strong small arms surplus on the orders of the country's joint defence ministry.
		The army has so far got rid of 2,500 small weapons and the rest will be destroyed on Monday, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
		The army in the Muslim Croat part of Bosnia is due to follow suit in the coming weeks.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040729145220.w8nw44gr.html (138 words)

	Ex-Bosnian Serb army commanders convicted - NDTV.com - News on Ex-Bosnian Serb army commanders convicted
		Two former Bosnian Serb army commanders were convicted and sentenced to nine and 18 years in prison on Monday for their roles in the 1995 genocide of Muslims from Srebrenica, Bosnia.
		Bosnian Muslims said the sentences were too mild and said that the court should have given them longer sentences.
		The Srebrenica massacres were committed in July 1995 at the end of the Bosnian war as the eastern Bosnian enclave under United Nations protection fell to Serbian attackers.
	www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Ex%2DBosnian+Serb+army+commanders+convicted&id=67055 (359 words)

	Station Information - Bosnian Serb Army
		Bosnian Serb Army (a.k.a 'Army of the Republika Srpska', Serbian Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske, ВРС/VRS), military of the Bosnian Serb state Republika Srpska.
		The army counted some 80,000 personnel during the Bosnian Civil War.
		The military leader of BSA was Ratko Mladic, and its political leader was Radovan Karadzic, both indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed in the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bosnian_serb_army.html (82 words)

	CNN - Bosnian Serb army chief boycotts talks with Plavsic - August 26, 1997
		Army commander Gen. Pero Colic stayed away from the talks, as did one of his deputies and the commanders of two of the Bosnian Serbs' four army corps.
		Army sources, speaking on condition of anonymity before the talks, said Plavsic would nominate either Talic or Simic as new army chief of staff to replace Colic, who appeared to have thrown his support to Karadzic.
		However, some of the senior army commanders have criticized her in what some analysts say signals a split with forces loyal to Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9708/26/plavsic.bosnia (681 words)

	Bosnia Handout
		BSA forces have often operated in conjunction with Serb paramilitary units identified as perpetrators of some of the worst atrocities of the Balkan conflict.
		BSA forces in both the January-April 1993 Srebrenica offensive and the April 1994 Gorazde attack, for example, razed Muslim villages well after Bosnian Serb troops had control of the areas surrounding them.
		Numerous Bosnian refugees have indicated that both Bosnian Serb and Serbian paramilitary units initially operated in conjunction with the JNA and later the BSA, as well as local police forces, to seize control of territory and ethnically cleanse areas in 1992.
	www.fas.org /irp/cia/product/bosnia_handout.html (2021 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ratko Mladic
		Ratko Mladić (born March 12, 1942) was the leader of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia.
		In June 1991, Mladić was posted to Knin as Commander of the 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), during fighting between the JNA and Croatian forces.
		The Yugoslav Peoples Army (Jugoslavenska/Jugoslovenska narodna armija, JNA, Slovene Jugoslovanska ljudska armada, JLA) was the army of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia prior to its dissolution.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ratko-Mladic (1610 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Bosnian Serb army 'helps Mladic'
		Evidence has emerged that the former Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic, is still receiving protection from the Bosnian Serb military.
		Diplomats in Bosnia say he was taken to a secret Bosnian Serb military complex near the town of Han Pijesak in the east of the country.
		Bosnian Serb politicians and security officials have always denied knowledge of his whereabouts, but these latest revelations are likely to increase calls for more action to be taken against those protecting Mr Mladic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/4085247.stm (275 words)

	Bosnian Serb Officer Surrenders
		AMSTERDAM, Netherlands –– A Bosnian Serb army officer surrendered to a U.N. war crimes tribunal Wednesday to face charges of murder and persecution of Muslims while serving near the eastern town of Srebrenica in 1995.
		In the Srebrenica genocide, some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and systematically executed in the military's effort to create a greater Serb state, empty of non-Serbs.
		During the war, Bosnia was divided into a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Bosnian Serb entity under the 1995 peace deal that ended the country's war.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20010815/aponline155044_000.htm (392 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Serb recruits refuse allegiance to Bosnia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bosnian Serbsâ refusal to swear allegiance to Bosnia deals a harsh blow to the country, which in 2003 took historic steps to unify the countryâs armed forces.
		Bosnian Defense Minister Nikola Radovanovic, who is also a Serb, ordered an investigation into whether the incident had been organized by higher-ranking authorities.
		Bosnian Serb politicians defended the soldiersâ refusal to pledge allegiance to Bosnia, saying there had been too much pressure to form a joint army in Bosnia and that the soldiers had only expressed their personal opinions.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=11128 (448 words)

	CNN.com - Hague indicts three over Srebrenica - Oct. 22, 2002
		The three, who are on the run, are charged with the killing of Muslim prisoners in the U.N.'s so-called safe haven and the forced transfer of tens of thousands of women and children from the enclave.
		They are alleged to have been part of a "joint criminal enterprise" headed by Ratko Mladic, the then commander of the Bosnian Serb Army who is now one of the tribunal's two most wanted men.
		The three include Ljubisa Beara, who was a colonel and the chief of security for the Bosnian Serb Army main staff, and Vujadin Popovic, a lieutenant colonel and the security officer of the feared Drina Corps.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/22/srebrenica.indictments (349 words)

	Rogues Gallery - Ratko Mladic - Global Policy Forum - International Justice
		After Serb forces heavily bombarded the UN-protected town of Srebenica, Mladic entered the town with his troops, where he proceeded to separate Bosnian Muslim women and children from all the men aged 12 to 72.
		Whether the two former Serb leaders remain at large due to unstated NATO policy, Muslim and Croatian politicians’ fear of war secrets revelations or Serb authorities’ unwillingness to take political risks, the author affirms that the fugitives are “a source of embarrassment” to NATO and former Yugoslavia Tribunal officials.
		Documents leaked to a Sarajevo newspaper revealed that former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic received pensions from former Yugoslavia until 2001 and the Bosnian Serb army until 2002, further indicating blatant disregard of the Dayton Peace Accords and the Hague war crimes tribunal by former Yugoslav states.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/wanted/mladicindex.htm (1032 words)

	The real story behind Srebrenica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Bosnian Serbs might have had the heaviest weapons, but the Bosnian Muslims matched them in infantry skills that were much in demand in the rugged terrain around Srebrenica.
		The Bosnian Muslim men and older boys were singled out and the elderly, women and children were moved out or pushed in the direction of Tuzla and safety.
		Nasar Oric, the Bosnian Muslim military leader in Srebrenica, is currently on trial in The Hague for war crimes committed during his "defence" of the town.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/jul05/hed7098.shtml (860 words)

	CNN - Soldier in Bosnian Serb army admits slaughtering Muslims - July 5, 1996
		THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CNN) -- A Bosnian Croat who served in the Bosnian Serb army gave an emotional account to a war crimes tribunal Friday of his role in gunning down busloads of Muslims after last year's fall of Srebrenica.
		As he peered through the bleeding bodies, he said saw Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic watching the slaughter.
		Mladic and Karadzic remain at large in Bosnian Serb territory, where their continued influence could upset September elections and other aspects of the Dayton peace accord.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9607/05/bosnia.war.crimes (813 words)

	CNN - Bosnian Serb army chief, ally to be charged with genocide - January 11, 2000
		Bosnian Serb army chief, ally to be charged with genocide
		THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A Bosnian Serb commander and his political ally were to be charged Tuesday before the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal with genocide and crimes against humanity.
		Talic, appointed Bosnian Serb military chief-of-staff in 1998, and Brdjanin, a former deputy prime minister, have been summoned to enter pleas on the charges at a pretrial hearing on their joint indictment.
	www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/01/11/bosnia.warcrimes/index.html (614 words)

	Bosnia and Herzegovina
		The Bosnian region in the north is mountainous and covered with thick forests.
		The terms of the Dec. 1995 Dayton Peace Accord were largely ignored by Bosnian Serbs, with its former president, arch-nationalist Radovan Karadzic, still in de facto control of the Serbian enclave.
		In Aug. 2001, Radislav Drstic, a Bosnian Serb general, was found guilty of genocide in the killing of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107349.html (1780 words)

	B92 >> News
		According to the statement from the UN mission, the focus of today’s meeting was the role of Serb representatives in task forces for the implementation of international standards for Kosovo.
		Former guerrilla commander Fatmir Limaj was arrested in March along with two other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army for allegedly killing and torturing Serb and Albanian inmates at the rebels' Lapusnik prison camp during the conflict.
		Both are charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for leading the campaign of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Croats and Muslims during the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
	www.b92.net /english/news/index.php?nav_id=26980&dd=16&mm=02&yyyy=2004 (1828 words)

	BBC Politics 97
		The political crisis in the Bosnian Serb republic continues to deepen, with army leaders warning that they will use "all means possible" in the ongoing battle for power between President Biljana Plavsic and supporters of former leader and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic.
		The threat was issued in a communique later released by the Bosnian Serb news agency, SRNA.
		The Bosnian Serb army chief of staff said that intervention by troops would be considered if Ms Plavsic continued to "destabilise" the Bosnian Serb republic.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/news/08/0822/bosnia.shtml (445 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The report said the Bosnian Serb army's communications systems ``have been resurrected by the Yugoslav army, whose personnel are involved.'' The document, which was signed by a senior military officer serving with the United Nations, said the Yugoslav army was supplying spare parts to maintain the Bosnian Serbs' small fleet of warplanes.
		A principal demand of the Bosnian Serbs has been for the widening and safeguarding of the narrow corridor of land across Northern Bosnian through which most of the fuel and supplies from Yugoslavia have been flown or trucked.
		Croat and Bosnian government forces consider this stretch of land to be one of the most strategic in Bosnia, and have shelled and attacked what is called the Posavina corridor for most of the war.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~bosnia/update/serbarmy.html (920 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Bosnian Serb suspected in Srebrenica massacre surrenders to U.N. tribunal
		Drago Nikolic, a former lieutenant in charge of security during the Bosnian Serb army onslaught on Srebrenica, turned himself in at the U.N. detention unit outside The Hague, Netherlands, the tribunal said.
		But more than a dozen Serbs suspected of war crimes remain at large, and are believed to be hiding in Serbia or neighboring Bosnia.
		Although Bosnian Serbs have long been blamed for Srebrenica, it was not until June 2004 that Serb officials acknowledged their security forces carried out the slaughter.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050317-1605-serbia-warcrimes.html (425 words)

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