Word: nationalist
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Lord Carrington, the European Community's designated mediator, is not alone, however, when he insists that Milosevic bears most, but by no means all, of the blame. The Serb leader may have summoned the nationalist genie, but it was a spirit just waiting to be uncorked from its tightly capped bottle. Throughout a 74-year existence, Yugoslavia has been a powder keg of ethnic, national and religious hatreds that go back for centuries. The country that is now vanishing was an artificial creation of conflicting cultures, patched together in the wake of two world wars. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats...
...learned an important lesson from World War I: It's not a good idea to demand reparations from losers. That can only ruin the economy of an already-devastated country and build militant nationalist sentiment out of which a stable government is unlikely to emerge...
...most important of these has been the violence that has continued to plague the townships since Mandela's release. The bitter struggle between Inkatha, the Zulu nationalist organization, and the ANC has led to the deaths of thousands of Black South Africans. It has also given weight to conservative white fears of an ethnic bloodbath after a transition to majority rule...
...trying to oust Rutskoi, possibly because he considers it wiser to tolerate a rebellious Vice President than to have him lead an opposition campaign. "Rutskoi can only form a viable party if he resigns," says Tretyakov. As if preparing for such a move, Rutskoi has lately been sounding nationalist themes along with his economic critiques...
Mcerwa's hero is Steve Biko, the black nationalist leader whose 1977 death in police custody turned him into the country's most celebrated black martyr. At 12 Mcerwa joined the 1976 Soweto uprising, the landmark outbreak of racial violence in which more than 100 blacks were killed. As he ran home after being teargassed, an older student who had been his political mentor was gunned down by the police...