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Article: Serb leaders are charged with genocide

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November 17, 1995
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The Bosnian Serb leaders, Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, were indicted yesterday on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the massacre of up to 6,000 Bosnian Muslims near Srebrenica.

The United Nations war-crimes tribunal in The Hague described the killings as "one of the bloodiest acts of the war in former Yugoslavia, involving crimes of unprecedented cruelty against the Bosnian Muslim population".

The move did not appear to affect rising hopes that a peace agreement might be reached in talks in Dayton, Ohio over the weekend. The US Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, is cutting short an Asian trip to put his "full weight" behind the peace effort.

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