Word: balkanize
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GREECE IS REMINDING THE WORLD THAT IT TOO IS A Balkan country, the inhabitant of a region where history often induces hysteria. In his policy toward the disaster zone that used to be Yugoslavia, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis is well on his way to deepening and widening the war there...
...Bosnia. But few stories match the horror of an alleged incident reported late last month for the first time: the massacre in August of more than 200 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb militia at the edge of a ravine near Travnik. Like some other Balkan tales, this one is impossible to verify independently. Bosnia's Muslim authorities claim to have details, but Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he knows nothing of a massacre. In the meantime, one escapee, Semir K., 24, shivered with vivid memory as he poured out this account of the evening...
Greece is reminding the world that it too is a Balkan country...
...this time, as in 1914, the conflagration could spread beyond Serbia. A Serb slaughter of Kosovars "is the point where the conflict will automatically trigger a wider Balkan war," says a U.S. official. It would almost certainly involve Albania and perhaps Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey. If two NATO members become embroiled, the alliance could also be dragged in. "It's our nightmare scenario," says a senior British diplomat...
...superpower had created a regional vacuum he could fill. The result was the invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm. Last year a clique of Serbian Marxists tried to maintain its authority over other South Slavs who no longer needed Belgrade to protect them from Moscow. The result was the Balkan cataclysm...