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...legal terms of the three indictments, that adds up to 66 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the rules of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The charges are a litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. They accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...
Originally, the jurists in Trial Chamber III wanted to try Milosevic first on the Kosovo campaign and later for Bosnia and Croatia. But an appeals court two weeks ago accepted Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's argument that all three were part of "one strategy, one scheme" and that witnesses, once revealed, might be intimidated not to appear again. So there will be one trial, expected to conclude by late...
...advertisements sent from “Brittney Spears” filtered out of my Hotmail account, they’re now coming from “Mariah Carrey” instead. She’s also earned the goodwill of the armed forces by performing for American troops in Kosovo, and if that didn’t prove her patriotism, she performed the national anthem for a billion viewers at the Super Bowl this past Sunday...
...personal, does it become harder or easier to fight? Vietnam, the first televised war, inspired as its memorial the granite wall etched with 58,175 names, an antidote to the memory of nameless nightly body counts. Since then the experts have chronicled America's "casualty aversion" through Lebanon, Somalia, Kosovo. The first President Bush was so concerned about maintaining public support during the Gulf War that shots of flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base were banned. The Pentagon expected tens of thousands of casualties; 148 died. The blessing of a swift victory was its curse...
Still, in a place like Kosovo, the euro has given the war-weary populace a larger sense of belonging. On the euro's third day, residents of the capital, Pristina, braved sub-zero temperatures to get the bills. By day's end, a small grocery on the city's main street had 4.50[Euro] in its till, though prices were still shown in German marks, the official currency since 1999. Kosovars are used to a variety of currencies: U.S. dollars, Swiss francs, Yugoslav dinars. Now there's the euro. Says shopkeeper Shukrane Shaqiri, warming her hands by a stove...