Word: balkanize
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...Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February due to grave health, and after two years of courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
Compared to so many other war-torn regions, the Balkan province of Kosovo was progressing nicely. Since NATO bombing ended in 1999, a government with limited powers had been elected. Security was improving. Kosovo Serbs, a minority in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province, could leave their fortified enclaves to shop, work, go skiing. "Things are getting back to normal," a Kosovo Serb restaurateur told Time last month. "People are ready to forget the past and move on." Alas, civil war is not easily forgotten. In a rash of attacks that spread across the province last week like a bushfire, ethnic...
...mission that seemed trivial for America’s national interest. Fear of another Somalia kept President Clinton at bay while France and Britain fumbled in Bosnia; and, unsure of itself, the world remained silent about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Only late in the Balkan War did Clinton even begin to consider the concept of military ultimatums, which, when issued, ended the berserk conflict within three months...
...Serbian pop charts is an unlikely place for a Norwegian journalist. But Åsne Seierstad's brief incarnation as a Balkan songstress, with her 2001 hit Laganese, is just one indication of the lengths to which she'll go for a story. While researching her book on Serbian society, With Their Backs to the World (2000), she paid a visit to singer Rambo Amadeus, whose musical style she describes as "acid-horror-funk." Amadeus balked at being included in the book - he just didn't give interviews. But a Norwegian folk song he heard her singing caught his ear. "Sing...
...America's image. In October 2001, U.S. troops working with Bosnian police arrested six Algerian-born men - one of whom was Mustafa Idr - on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme Court ultimately freed the men for lack...