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Fighting and burning of Albanian villages in Kosovo continued, despite pleas for peace talks from Western leaders. The depopulation of large areas prompted renewed charges of ethnic cleansing on the part of Serb forces. One Bosnian Serb about to be charged with genocide died before facing his day in court. Milan Kovacevic, a hospital director and anesthesiologist from Prejidor, apparently had a heart attack in his Dutch jail cell. An indictment charged Mr. Kovacevic with playing a key role in forcibly relocating and killing large numbers of Muslim and Croatian civilians in Bosnia. International law experts said the case was significant because the judges were expected to set new definitions for the crime of genocide. Now the case will be dropped. Another Serb, the former mayor of Vukovar, Croatia, Slavko Kokmanovic, hanged himself in his cell in June just as the tribunal was set to begin deliberations against him for war crimes.

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