Word: kosovo
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...Laden hasn't accomplished crimes anywhere near as dastardly as those of which Milosevic is accused. From Sept. 21, 1991, when Serb paramilitary shot 11 Croat civilians in Dalj and buried their bodies in a mass grave, to May 25, 1999, when, during the forced evacuation of the Kosovo village of Dubrava, Serb forces killed eight ethnic Albanians, the former President is charged with responsibility for crimes that resulted in the deaths of 300,000 non-Serbs and the expulsion of millions from their homelands...
...Serbia that the former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic may be called to testify against Slobodan Milosevic. Recently the Yugoslav press published information that Lilic was "taking intensive English classes" and is "the protected witness [known as] K-3" who will be the first to testify against Milosevic in the Kosovo case. Out of all the media allegations, Lilic admits to only one: that he is once again being pursued by high officials of The Hague tribunal...
...Serbs. They called themselves "mujahedeen," and many of them were itinerant veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Serb leaders at the time described their fight as one against terrorism, and even today pro-Milosevic propagandists use the term "Taliban" to describe their enemies in Bosnia and Kosovo...
Milosevic is going to try to push the anti-terrorism button. He'll frame much of his defense around the idea that in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was facing the same Islamic terrorism against which the U.S. has since gone to war. In the case of Kosovo, he'll argue that the operations he ordered were legitimate actions by a sovereign state to crack down on Muslim terrorists - meaning the Kosovo Liberation Army. And he'll sound a similar theme on Bosnia, saying that there, too, the local Serbs were fighting a war against foreign Mujahedeen fighters...
...Milosevic's worldview, in which the Serbs are perpetual victims of the aggressions of their neighbors and of American imperial designs, is unlikely to find much traction in the West. But his arguments may resonate with many Serbs, who still believe that the Kosovo Albanians were externally-funded terrorists. Still, even among Serbs who blame the wars of the 1990s exclusively on others, there's a growing acknowledgment that Milosevic was not a passive bystander, and that he pursued criminal policies. The discovery of mass graves in Serbia last summer offered incontrovertible proof that war crimes had been committed...