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...exists only in history books. The name means "Land of the South Slavs," as it was created on the ruins of two great powers - the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires - which once ruled the Balkans. After World War I, the idea of bringing together all these closely related ethnic groups - Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and others - in one superstate seemed not only noble but perfectly reasonable. But from the outset, the new nation was riddled with tensions: although culturally close, the ethnic groups were divided by religion, and Serbs, as the largest and most dispersed group of all, tried to assume...
PEOPLE FEEL VERY PROPRIETARY ABOUT THEIR ETHNICITIES THESE DAYS. ARE YOU WORRIED THAT PEOPLE WON'T ACCEPT A BOOK ABOUT AN ARAB AMERICAN COMING FROM YOU? It's a question of whether or not you're going to be scared by all this ethnic awareness and possessiveness into writing about nothing but septuagenarian, Eastern-born Lutherans. You get boxed in by your own fear of making a misstep. I'd rather risk having various minorities complain. You have to risk it. It's part of the fun of it. Unless you're willing to stretch, you're going to limit...
...tangled wad of clothes atop a rusting bed; he hadn't moved his limbs or spoken for weeks. Live had already endured a lifetime of sorrow. She lost two children to treatable illnesses. Her sister, her father and an aunt were all murdered in attacks by one of the ethnic militias that terrorize this corner of Congo. Doctors at the hospital determined that Jonathan had meningitis, a life-threatening but treatable inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. Françoise Ngave, a nurse in the children's ward, said, "If he stays here, he can live...
...Kabila got too friendly with the Interahamwe, Uganda and Rwanda invaded Congo again, triggering what became known as Africa's first world war. The scramble for power and resources dragged in forces from at least eight African neighbors, spawned a myriad of Congolese factions and set off campaigns of ethnic cleansing. Kabila, as nasty and corrupt as his predecessor, was shot dead by one of his bodyguards in 2001. His son Joseph, 29, assumed power. One year later, after some arm twisting by continental power South Africa (whose leaders recognize the crucial role Congo could play in their plan...
...looting and pillaging the people they are meant to protect. In early May, Congolese troops in Ituri in the northeast forced at least 4,500 refugees out of a camp because they suspected militia fighters were sheltering there. Some Congolese units have split back into their rebel and ethnic parts and turned on one another. The upsurge in rapes, killings and torture by Congo's security forces has become so serious that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is debating whether to end its cooperation with the police and army altogether...