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...NETHERLANDS "Belgrade Decided to Destroy Kosovo" In dramatic testimony at Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes trial in the Hague, President Ibrahim Rugova of Kosovo said, "Belgrade clearly decided to destroy Kosovo through violence and war" by "a calmly done cleansing of the population." Rugova, who sparred verbally with the former Yugoslav leader, is the highest-ranking prosecution witness so far. The charges against Milosevic include responsibility for the deaths of more than 900 Kosovars and the expulsion of 80,000 in a crackdown that drew in NATO forces...
Bannykh called for U.S. cooperation in peace-keeping efforts in the Black Sea region, particularly in the conflict in Kosovo...
...mere gun-battle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters. Professor Derrick Pounder, a British forensics expert working with Amnesty International in Jenin, harbors no doubt about the eventual outcome of the investigations: “The truth will come out, as it has come out in Bosnia and Kosovo, as it has in other places where we’ve had these kinds of allegations...
...NETHERLANDS Senior Surrender Yugoslavia's former army commander turned himself in to the U.N. war-crimes tribunal but pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. General Dragoljub Ojdanic, who was army chief during the 1999 war in Kosovo, is the most senior war-crimes suspect to face charges after former President Slobodan Milosevic. He was the first to hand himself over after the Yugloslav government ordered 23 people to surrender or face possible arrest and extradition. "I have nothing to be ashamed of," he said...
...indeed, and twice the U.S. had to bail Europe out. Military cemeteries in France, Belgium and the Netherlands are reminders. Though we older people will never forget the wars and still stand in awe when we visit these cemeteries, a new generation is totally estranged from this history. In Kosovo, U.S. forces again had to quench fires in the heart of Europe that Europeans were loath to put out. We holler when the U.S. rightly fights international terrorism, which is also close to our doorstep. Pacifism and left-wing governments have blocked wholehearted support of American goals. It will take...