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Article: Bosnian Serb Says He Will Quit Politics
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- The Washington Post
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- July 20, 1996
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Under an agreement hammered out by U.S. special envoy Richard
C. Holbrooke, indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic formally
stepped down as the Bosnian Serb political leader today and
announced that he is withdrawing "permanently from all political
activities."
The Bosnian Serb's statement, which came after hours of tough
negotiations between Holbrooke and Slobodan Milosevic, the president
of Serbia, enables the Clinton administration to declare the way
open for elections in Bosnia to be held Sept. 14. But it sidesteps
demands by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague for
Karadzic's arrest and extradition, and it makes no mention of the
Bosnian Serb military leader, Gen. ...