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Article: Mladic Reported to Resign Command; Bosnian Serb General Said to Cite Pressure From President, West
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- The Washington Post
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- November 28, 1996
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Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander wanted by
international war crimes prosecutors on charges of genocide and
crimes against humanity, resigned today, buckling to pressure from
Bosnian Serb political leaders and Western powers, a Belgrade news
agency reported.
However, Mladic's decision, reported by the Belgrade
agency VIP, did not necessarily end a 19-day stand-off between the
Bosnian Serb military and its political leadership over the future
of the ruthless general and the leadership of the once-formidable
Serb fighting machine.
The former Yugoslav People's Army colonel who became a
general during the 3 1/2-year Bosnian civil war announced he would
be ...