Word: bosnia
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What was lacking for so long was enforcement, but the international community has been building a set of rules and procedures that are proving surprisingly effective. The impetus for recent reforms is the awful carnage committed in Rwanda and Bosnia. The U.N. Security Council responded by setting up special-purpose war-crimes tribunals in the Hague and Arusha, Tanzania. Last July, 160 countries sent delegates to Rome to prepare a statute for a permanent international criminal court, and 120 voted for it. The U.S. refused to go along, but nonetheless the new tribunal will come into existence when 60 countries...
...agonize over whether to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by killing her mother Clytemnestra. She just does it (or rather, has her brother Orestes do it). Leveaux, who has brought his crisp staging of the tragedy from London to Broadway, says he was thinking of events in Bosnia: Can the cycle of vengeance ever end? Yet he resists the urge to add modern complexities to this fiercely singleminded play. Enough to watch the talented Zoe Wanamaker as a very human, almost waifish Electra, buried in a gigantic overcoat, like the mantle of fate that impels this timeless play...
Several of the presenters linked the Holocaust to modern-day examples of genocide, such as that in Bosnia and in Rwanda...
...home on foes and friends alike, closing a radio station and five newspapers and purging Belgrade University of professors. But in a big surprise last week, he sacked his ruthless spymaster, JOVICA STANISIC, whose loyalists fear he may be blamed by Milosevic for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Bosnia. That explains why, after the ouster, Stanisic said Milosevic bore primary responsibility for the work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ...
...would be really a double standard if, on the one hand, the Kosovo Albanians would be supported in seceding whereas, on the other hand, the same right is denied to the Serbs in Bosnia," Todorova said. "Promoting [an] independent Kosovo would effectively kill the Dayton agreement in which the United States has a great stake...