Word: kosovo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Sokol Zejnullahu fled his native Kosovo in March, he never expected that his journey would ultimately bring him to Lowell House at Harvard...
...home by Serbian paramilitary members last November--just one year after their mother had died of cancer. The day of their father's funeral, they met Instructor of Psychiatry Ruth A. Barron and Assistant Professor of Medicine Jennifer Leaning, who were investigating crimes against doctors and health clinics in Kosovo for Physicians for Human Rights...
Meanwhile, back in Kosovo, their extended family has begun to reassemble its life after the region's civil strife...
...Things are getting easier right now for them," Sokol said. "Much of Kosovo is destroyed, but they feel they have freedom...
After Rwanda and Kosovo, another dark page of modern history is being written in East Timor by the Indonesian army. It's a shame the international community did not react faster in condemning Indonesia and preventing the genocide, which has been ongoing since the mid-'70s in East Timor. Above all political and economic considerations, the international community should never forget that the brave people of East Timor are struggling (and dying) for something that is so dear to all of us: freedom. MIGUEL LUCAS Lisbon...