Word: nationalists
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...Vitus in the Christian Orthodox calendar--had written itself into the history of the Balkans. On St. Vitus day in 1389, Serbs were defeated by the Turks at the battle of Kosovo Polje, the event that launched Serbian claims to eternal victimhood. On the same day in 1914, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, plunging Europe into World War I. And on the same day in 1989, Milosevic--speaking at Kosovo Polje--launched his career as the defender of Serbian nationalism. Twelve years later, he finds himself imprisoned while his country is broken, indebted and marred...
...NATO is all too aware of the palpable failure involved in legitimizing the rebels. Far from stabilizing the region's ethnic conflicts, it actually sends the message that nothing succeeds quite as well as resorting to arms - and that creates an incentive for nationalist extremists to keep on fighting to redraw Balkan borders. The Macedonian insurgency began with small groups of men infiltrated from NATO-controlled Kosovo, who then launched attacks on security force personnel. And despite some verbal wrist-slapping from NATO, the reward for that strategy may turn out to be a place at the negotiating table...
...tribunal is biased against Serbs, and had insisted that Milosevic be first processed by the Yugoslav judiciary before being extradited. It is these sentiments that the former strongman was trying to tap when he appeared in court Tuesday, suggesting that the trial may yet become a rallying point for nationalist Serbs and cause political problems at home for the post-Milosevic leadership...
...INDIA Nagaland Unrest Fighting between police and demonstrators left 15 people dead in Manipur, northeast India. The rioters burned the state legislative assembly and other buildings in protest at a government extension of a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland. The government issued a "shoot-on-sight" order to police to enforce an indefinite curfew across the state...
...left rebranded itself, the right retrenched. The Tories' abysmal campaign exposed the party as hoary and clannish, with no creative agenda beyond nationalist scaremongering about the euro and asylum seekers. Voters didn't go for it, just as Germans have turned away from the periodic Euro-skeptic and anti-immigrant noises made on the right. The center-right's lurch toward nationalism has disheartened libertarians who believe the free movement of people and capital are core conservative principles. And corruption scandals in numerous countries have damaged conservative credibility...