Word: croatia
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...Croatian President since Serbs and Croats went to war in 1991, both heads of state offered regrets for the actions of their citizens during the conflict. "I want to apologize for all the wrongdoings that any citizen of Serbia and Montenegro has committed against any citizen of Croatia," Serbian President Zvetozar Marovic said at a joint news conference. His counterpart from Zagreb, Stijpe Mesic, said he accepted "the symbolic apology" and offered his own to "all those to whom the citizens of Croatia have inflicted pain or caused damage." The statements follow three years of rapprochement between the erstwhile enemies...
...Number of countries the Pope, who was in Croatia last week, has visited...
...DIED. JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during...
After spending last summer in Croatia, Pring-Wilson worked this year on a thesis about reconstruction efforts in Bosnia...
...Harvard women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s off-season got a bit busier today. Delaney-Smith was named an assistant coach of the 2003 USA Basketball Championships for Young Women, to be held this summer from July 25 to August 3 in Sibenik, Croatia...