The most important is Ratko Mladic, who led Bosnian Serb forces during the war and is believed to be hiding somewhere in Serbia.

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Sexual violence was a weapon of war, Groome said, describing a woman who said she had been raped more than 50 times, and women who were forced by Bosnian Serb forces to perform sex acts on members of their own families.

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In Kosovo Serb forces were fighting terrorists, just like the Americans, who sent their forces to the other side of their world to do the same in Afghanistan.

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About two-thirds of the ethnic-Serb minority (which stood at 180, 000, or about a tenth of the populace before the war started) has now left, either fleeing or anticipating revenge from ethnic Albanians who lost homes and loved ones at the hands of Serb forces and Serb neighbours.

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