Word: brutalizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much easier than I thought. I thought it would be really tough. Directing to me had always looked so hard, and I didn't really want to do it. It just seemed brutal. But as soon as I entered into the process, I felt like a duck in water; I just really enjoyed it. It was really disorienting at first. Auditioning actors freaked me out, I couldn't deal with it. They'd come in, and I felt so bad for them, because I'd been through it myself. So they'd come in, and I found myself apologizing...
...military strikes in Yugoslavia must be allowed to run their course. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's call for cease-fires and his government's declaration that "peace has been restored in Kosovo" are belied by the brutal treatment of the Kosovar Albanians. Reports vary, but it seems certain that several hundred thousand Kosovars have been forced from their homes into neighboring republics, while many more are refugees within their own borders...
...terror to tell. Milosevic seemed intent on emptying not just the historically sacred (and mineral-rich) north and central zones dear to Serb hearts and pocketbooks but every square inch of the Connecticut-size province. Even without confirmation of the widespread stories of atrocity or war crimes, the brutal outflow told a clear enough tale. A systematic expulsion was under way that, NATO predicted, could empty the province of its 1.8 million ethnic Albanians in 10 to 20 days...
Throughout Kosovo, the "cleansing" of the province's 1.8 million Albanians was swift and brutal. Arife Bajrami, 30, who fled to Kukes, Albania, from Izbice, in central Kosovo, said Serbs told residents to assemble at the local schoolyard. The Serbs demanded money from the women in exchange for their lives. "They made us walk for two hours to another village, then they marched us back again, just making fun of us," Bajrami said. "We had no food. I saw one old lady die on the road." As she trudged along the muddy road to Albania, local Serbs shouted, "Your land...
...Serbian hosts led us to the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade to see a photo exhibit designed to justify their ethnic cleansing and brutal destruction at Vukovar. In a glass case was a steel instrument that looked like a tuning fork, but with the prongs spaced 3 1/2 in. apart. The Croat Ustache used to use the handy device to gouge out Serb prisoners' eyes, both at once. Applied art, indeed...