Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics, money doesn't just talk ? it gives speeches. It speaks loud, from a lush rented banquet hall, or wide, from the face in a slick campaign ad on national television. It is a megaphone for ideas, and also a corruptor of democracy, because when money it is given in large enough quantities ? and yes, Messrs. Forbes and Perot and Huffington, it must be given to be truly effective ? it wins elections. It buys votes, because it is votes. It signals support, so it attracts support, and thus it is self-fulfilling. And because no candidate can win without...
...Kosovo, and vowed to provide them with support. And pan-European Gypsy organizations such as the Romany Union and the European Roma Rights Center have sought urgent undertakings from NATO to protect their kin in Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies may also be a power play by the KLA," says Anastasijevic. "That raises the question of whether the West will be willing to challenge a key player in the territory in order to save the Gypsies." Although NATO remains formally committed to protecting Kosovo?s minorities...
...That many Roma people worked for the Serbs ? usually as manual laborers ?- throughout their campaign of violence against ethnic Albanians is not in dispute. "Ever since Serbia withdrew Kosovo?s autonomy in 1989, the authorities have been reluctant to hire ethnic Albanians even as street cleaners," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Because they accepted employment by the Serbs at a time when Albanians were boycotting all Serb institutions, they gained a reputation for siding with the Serbs. But as is the case all over the Balkans and Europe, Gypsies have always been the lowest class of citizen...
...butchering Kosovar Albanians, they paid Gypsies to clear rubble and dig the graves. The Roma population ? many of whom painted the word "Rom" on their houses ? were also spared by the rampaging Serb paramilitaries. Some individuals are alleged to have played a more actively violent role in the Serb campaign; others to have given the Serbs political support. Other Gypsies actually joined the KLA, although a number have subsequently complained of being forced at gunpoint...
...targeted for retribution, regardless of whether they actually worked for the Serbs or not. "What?s being done to the Gypsies now is ethnic cleansing ?- it can?t be called by any other name," says Anastasijevic. "It?s directed against an entire ethnic group. And if those responsible this campaign against the Gypsies are allowed to get away with it, it will legitimize further violence against other minorities in Kosovo, such as the Turks...