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...State Department accused Jugoimport SDPR, an arms-procurement agency, of helping Orao, a Bosnian Serb firm, to sell Iraq military equipment, including spare parts for Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter planes. American and Bosnian officials said nato peacekeepers found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite to be the new president of Catalonia's ruling party called for greater independence for the autonomous region. Artur Mas of the Catalan-nationalist Convergence and Union coalition called for a new autonomy statute that would...
Klein cited East Slavonia, for which he served as an SRSG, and his ongoing work in Bosnia-Herzegovina as successes...
Rieff shares that impression. He is an author and journalist who has spent the better part of the past 10 years observing killers and humanitarians on the job in places like Bosnia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Angola. "As I write," Rieff notes, "there are 27 major armed conflicts taking place in the world; 1.2 billion people are living on less than one dollar a day; 2.4 billion people have no access to basic sanitation; and 854 million adults, 543 million of them women, are illiterate." Rieff expresses his admiration for the humanitarians--Doctors Without Borders...
...often--in Bosnia and Rwanda, for example--humanitarian workers have simply served as fig leaves, moral cover for big powers that did not want to get involved. As long as telegenic humanitarians put on a morally satisfying show of Western deus ex machina, caring for refugees on the 6:30 news, then governments can procrastinate. Take, for instance, the legal dithering of the Clinton Administration on Rwanda (where 800,000 dying in eight weeks amounted to an immense crime of omission): It depends on what the meaning of the word genocide...
...coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina and one of the main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian Serb troops...