Word: kosovo
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...Taliban moving into the once peaceful north, where most of Germany's troops are stationed, Germans have to face the fact that their military - a force that saw no action between the end of World War II and 1999, when it joined the coalition to force Serbia out of Kosovo - is fighting a war. (Read: "Germany's Election: Divided They Stand...
...government for doing nothing to try to restrain ultranationalist groups as threats against the parade intensified in recent weeks. Apart from covering city walls with menacing graffiti, members of the far-right groups 1389 (named for the year when Serbia lost to the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Kosovo) and Obraz (the Serbian word for face) also made ominous comments to the media. "Everyone knows what will happen if they go ahead with that parade of shame, and the responsibility for that will be of those who organized it," Mladen Obradovic, a leader of Obraz, said in a television...
...pictures of NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo...
...requirements of peace get in the way of justice? I think we've learned that contrary to fears, holding people accountable for atrocities does not make the problem worse - it makes it better. When Milosevic was indicted for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, people were convinced that they would never have peace and he would be worse than ever. Within a short time he was charged and jailed in his own country. In Sierra Leone there was a peace agreement that gave the rebels amnesty, but that was not genuine peace. When the government said they needed to try those that...
...largely in menial jobs on the streets of Western Europe. But it made headlines in April when thousands of Moldovans, mostly young people, took to the street crying fraud after elections that returned the Communist Party to power. Protesters torched buildings and ransacked the presidential palace. (Read: "Ghosts of Kosovo...