Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better to remember or to forget? Forgetting--even without its sainted better half, forgiveness--is sometimes the only route to sanity. If only the Balkans, for example, could be enfogged by a massive forgetting. As it is, every generation of Serbs remembers, as if it were last Saturday, their defeat by the Turks at the Battle of Kosovo in the year 1389. The result has been centuries of self-renewing reciprocal atrocity between Serbs and Muslims. Massacre is the Balkan national flower...
...only by finding his hidden source of power and destroying it. Modern Serbia has no shortage of wicked sorcerers who fit that archetype, and first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last November, when the first sustained attempts to defy Milosevic began rocking the Serbian capital, Belgrade. During...
...ladder of the Yugoslav secret police. In 1988 he was promoted to chief of Belgrade's security operations. It was in this position that he first caught the attention of Milosevic, who had been elected President of Serbia the year before. In March 1991, three months before the Balkan wars began, the President placed Stanisic in charge of Serbia's entire security service...
...America's presence in Europe, particularly in the war torn Balkan States, is more important now than ever, former assistant secretary of state Richard C. Holbrooke said yesterday at the Yenching Lecture Hall...
...BALKAN WAR CRIMINALS...