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...Amnesty report cites instances where seven European nations - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Sweden and Great Britain - helped the CIA in the rendition of 13 terror suspects. "All involve men being bundled onto planes and transferred abroad, without due process, to places of detention where they have suffered abuse," Amnesty charges...
...allowed rendition operations to be staged at its airports. Italian prosecutors have concluded that their country, too, participated in that operation; a trial in Milan of 22 American alleged cia operatives may begin before the end of this year. The Marty report also alleges some degree of collusion from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. For a practice "utterly alien to the European tradition," an awful lot of European nations were apparently willing to help. So is Europe serious about opposing torture? On paper, yes: Section I, Article 3 of the European Convention...
...Traveling to many of the world's trouble spots, the artist has documented the atrocities of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda in a hyper-real mix of painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight...
...first East European country to join the European Community. But instead of E.U. membership we got Slobodan Milosevic, who ensnared many of my Serbian compatriots with his virulent nationalism, while other Balkan countries became equally nationalistic. Slovenia was the first to pull out of Yugoslavia, followed by Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo. And now Montenegro, a staunch Serbian ally for the past two centuries, has made its exit. All that is left of Yugoslavia (which changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro three years ago) is a World Cup?bound soccer team and dog-eared passports like mine. But these...
...Even back [in Bosnia] Harvard was known,” he says. “You throw around Ivy League names like that, [and] you know you’re dealing with big names...