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...worst attack against Serbs in the province of Kosovo since the aftermath of the nato bombing in 1999, at least seven civilians were killed and a dozen more seriously injured when the bus in which they were traveling was torn apart by a remote-controlled bomb buried in a drainage ditch. The bus was part of a convoy of five vehicles driving under armed nato escort from the border with Serbia to the town of Gracanica, where the Serbs had planned to visit the graves of their ancestors. Two Swedish armored personnel carriers passed over the 50-100-kg explosive...
...northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers. In Kosovo, women have been warned that if they try to flee they will be identified as Serbs because of their Slavic features and murdered as members of the hated minority...
...Prosecution is almost always problematic. Traffickers know that cases depend on victims testifying, so in places like Kosovo they are sure to give their women "contracts," written in English for the benefit of English-speaking U.N. police. Traumatized and deeply humiliated by their ordeal, most women fail to testify even when given the chance. One-third of the women "rescued" in Kosovo in a six-month period last year refused to incriminate their captors. Twice peacekeepers have raided a railside nightclub in the south central town of Ferizai, and twice they came up empty-handed after the girls failed...
...different category of chattel-new attempts have been proposed to prosecute the guilty. Not long ago the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) set up a task force to coordinate initiatives throughout the Balkans. Witness protection programs are on the books in a few countries. And Kosovo, under U.N. administration, last year drafted a comprehensive antitrafficking law, though the province remains chronically short of police to enforce...
...ground, Western governments have focused mainly on warning victims or trying to shame potential clients. In Moldova, the U.S. embassy funded two half-hour programs about the trade to be broadcast on state television and in schools. In Kosovo, the iom printed 20,000 pamphlets-in English-to target the international community there. The pamphlets recount the true story of a young woman, Maria, who lived eight to a room and was forced to have sex with up to five men a night. "You pay for a night," it admonishes readers. "She pays with her life...