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Article: International conference prods Serbia to face war crimes issues
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KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-01-2004
Dateline: BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro
Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, international law experts and human rights activists gathered in Belgrade on Friday to review Serbia's shortcomings in dealing with war crimes committed during the 1990s Balkan conflicts.
The conference on international justice and war crimes was the first of its kind in Serbia, where extremism is still rampant and where many consider the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to be biased against Serbs.
The conference comes amid intense Western pressure on Belgrade to capture fugitive Bosnian Serb wartime military chief Gen. Ratko ...