Word: balkanizing
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...passport with the word Yugoslavia on the cover, although the country that issued it now exists only in history books. The name means "Land of the South Slavs," as it was created on the ruins of two great powers - the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires - which once ruled the Balkans. After World War I, the idea of bringing together all these closely related ethnic groups - Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and others - in one superstate seemed not only noble but perfectly reasonable. But from the outset, the new nation was riddled with tensions: although culturally close, the ethnic groups were divided...
Montenegro voted last week to split from Serbia, ending the last union between states of the former Yugoslavia. Nationalists in the Balkan republic (celebrating at left), which hopes to join the European Union, aren't alone in their secessionist spirit. Here are six other territories with aspirations to join the countries club...
...band crooning can't calm tensions in Serbia and Montenegro. Although a Montenegrin pop group called No Name won a national selection heat, accusations of vote fixing and Montenegrin favoritism turned the Belgrade competition into a riot. Serbians called for a new vote, but the Montenegrins refused, leaving the Balkan federation not only without No Name but also with no entry...
...been sincere advocates of Protestantism, but it would hardly be fair to associate all Americans with the terrible things that some people have done in the name of their Christian beliefs—remember that Christianity has been used to justify slavery, lynchings, Crusades and many other bloody wars, Balkan ethnic cleansing, etc. There are apparently people in Saudi Arabia and its government who support terrorism, just as there are apparently people in America and in our government who support the use of torture and other measures formerly designated as war crimes, at least when they are used...
...shared responsibility with him for some of the worst horrors of modern Europe are still alive and free. The former Serb leader was not in his grave before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague called for a renewed effort to apprehend the two most wanted fugitives from the Balkan wars: Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. "Now more than ever I expect Serbia to arrest and transfer [Mladic and Karadzic] to the Hague," said Carla del Ponte, the tribunal's chief prosecutor. So far attempts to arrest the two men by both Serb authorities and nato peacekeepers...