My Tea with Arkan the Henchman

Zeljko Raznatovic, a.k.a. "Arkan," may be the world's most notorious ethnic cleanser. In 1991, as the former Yugoslavia broke apart, his paramilitary "Tigers" pioneered the terror tactics that are the hallmark of the Balkan wars. Last week American and British officials said he and his men have unsheathed that same vengeful violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population. And if his terrible status needed any further certification, it came from Louise Arbour, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, who last Wednesday announced an indictment against Arkan for war crimes committed in the Balkans from 1991 to '95....

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