Word: kosovo
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...because nobody?s protecting them from these systematic, well-organized attacks and the culprits are never caught," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The alliance lacks a strategy," he adds, "and it?s fast heading for a situation where its choices are either to accept partition of Kosovo or to accept the ethnic cleansing of Serbs...
...Monday three Serbs were killed by a rocket grenade attack on a marketplace in Kosovo Polje. "That unhappy scenario plays right into Milosevic?s hands," says Anastasijevic. "All he needs to do is send a few tanks to Kosovo and attack NATO forces. That would restart air strikes and put an end to any challenge. So his message to Serbs is, be good or I?ll restart the war." Four months into the peacekeeping mission, NATO appears to have lost its way politically...
...this post-Vietnam age, most Americans are wary of sending troops overseas. But Buchanan's opposition is sweeping. He is, of course, outraged by Clinton's Kosovo policies ("We have no vital interest in that blood-soaked peninsula..."). But he also attacks the Persian Gulf War, waged by Republican President Bush and backed by 80% of Americans. And the moral quandary of whether, as the world's only superpower, the U.S. has a duty to stop genocide is for Buchanan a no-brainer: unless vital interests like oil are involved, we should mind our own business and let those marked...
General Augusto Pinochet may prove to be one of the most unexpected casualties of the Kosovo war. The former Chilean dictator?s extradition case got under way in London Monday in an international legal climate much different from when he was first arrested last October. Spain wants Pinochet extradited to face trial for the systematic human rights abuses committed by his military junta between 1973 and 1990 (including, but not limited to, torture on Spanish citizens). Chile?s government is arguing that extraditing Pinochet violates Chile?s sovereignty, and that if he needs to be tried it should...
...since Pinochet?s arrest, Britain has joined the U.S. and other NATO allies in the Kosovo war, which was based on the idea that Yugoslavian sovereignty was less important than its crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Indeed, it becomes difficult while pressing for Slobodan Milosevic to be tried in the Hague for crimes against his own citizenry to argue that the charges against Pinochet ?- whose regime murdered at least 3,000 of its political opponents ?- are a domestic matter. But even if a British Magistrate?s Court upholds Spain?s extradition request, the 83-year-old general will still have...