Word: kosovo
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Time's Belgrade stringer Dejan Anastasijevic has spent the last 12 years covering the wars and turbulence of the Balkans at close quarters, suffering harassment from the government of former president Slobodan Milosevic for his efforts to report on the actions of Serb security forces in Bosnia and Kosovo. Anastasijevic later testified for the prosecution during Milosevic's ongoing war-crimes trial at the Hague. On the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, he offers this assessment of his country's reckoning with the crimes committed in its name...
...Roma in Kosovo are in danger from a deadly combination of a toxic environment and bureaucratic stalemate. In November 1999, in the aftermath of the war in Kosovo, about 200 Roma, driven from their homes by ethnic Albanian extremists, were placed in refugee camps near Trepca, one of the largest lead-and-zinc mines in Europe. Last June, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted blood tests on 75 Roma adults and children in the camps; 44 proved to be massively contaminated by lead. The camps have still not been evacuated. Refugees live "the life of animals," says Agron Qosa...
...Accused Few people can enhance their reputations by being indicted for war crimes. Yet last week, when Kosovo's 36-year-old Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj was indicted by a U.N. tribunal on 37 counts of crimes against humanity and violating the laws or customs of war - including murder, rape and personal involvement in beating civilians - he emerged as a hero. That's partly because the former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army agreed to quit and turn himself in. Many found his resignation impressive. The U.N. administrator for Kosovo, Soren Jessen-Petersen, said that Haradinaj "has once again...
...Kosovo will probably be rewarded with "final status" talks on independence from Serbia as early as this year. The government is expected to choose a new Prime Minister this week. Meanwhile, Haradinaj is hoping that Jessen-Petersen was right when he said: "I trust that Mr Haradinaj will again be able to serve Kosovo." The alternative, if convicted, is life. - By Andrew Purvis Storm Over Sunset BRITAIN Home Secretary Charles Clarke imposed strict controls on 10 released terror suspects under a new antiterror bill approved after a marathon all-night session of Parliament. The House of Lords, Parliament's unelected...
...local Unitarian church, she traveled to Bosnia, determined to do something. Today Salbi's group, Women for Women International, based in Washington and with 180 staff members and a budget of $8.7 million, is a lifeline for war-torn women in eight countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The organization picks up where humanitarian aid leaves off. "We work with women as they get out of the refugee tent--out of the victim stage--and help them become survivors and active citizens," Salbi says...