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Word: djakovica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles from the Albanian border. "And say hello to Bill Clinton. You will never see Kosovo again." Serb paramilitary forces were said to have committed grisly atrocities. There were reports of summary executions in at least 20 towns and villages. According to the State Department, Albanian men in Djakovica were systematically separated from women and children. Thirty-three bodies were later found in a nearby river. Refugees said Serb forces rounded up and executed 150 Kosovar men in the police station in Kacanik. Kosovars who made it to the border had their identities erased by Serb border authorities, who confiscated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrain Of Terror | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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