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...Rwandan Hutu launched a murderous uprising and forced the creation of a majority-controlled republic, which survived until 1994. In Burundi, by contrast, the Tutsi remained in control. Both armies were dominated by the ruling tribe and did not hesitate to suppress uprisings by the opposing ethnic group. Peasant revolts in Burundi in 1965, 1972 and 1988 were ruthlessly put down, in one case leading to the loss of 200,000 lives...
Karadzic grew up a hill-country peasant boy in a society ripped apart by World War II and ferocious ethnic battles. His path to power was winding, complicated and unlikely. Born on June 19, 1945, in a tiny mountainside hamlet in the republic of Montenegro, he tended the farm animals and listened to traditional songs of brave battles against the Turks--learning nationalism by osmosis. His father was away during those early years, imprisoned for his wartime deeds as a member of the Chetniks, nationalist guerrillas who fought Nazi occupiers and Marshal Tito's communist partisans alike. After eight years...
...Ljiljana, and they lived in a downtown apartment building at 2 Sutjeska Street, where her parents also resided. Some of Karadzic's friends thought his new wife was unattractive and domineering. "We never understood why he married her," says one. "Maybe it was the typical calculation of a poor peasant boy. She could provide him with housing, food and money." Karadzic pretended not to notice his comrades' disdain and called Ljiljana his "Creole beauty." They have two children, a daughter and a son, both in their...
...Come to think of it, this is hardly the sort of notion one expects to hear any man, in any age, expressing even to himself. But when Sergei Bubka thunders down the runway with the zeal of a mounted hussar about to drive his lance through a peasant yeoman, people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might call downright ... unnatural. Like the three frat brothers who wrench their gaze away from the bikini-clad strumpets draped over the first-deck seats to train their binoculars on the vault...
...from that point on, a great portraitist, one of the best the world has seen, especially of himself. His self-portraits invite comparison with those of Rembrandt, and the best of them justify it. He begins, in his own images, as a wild man, a solitary, an uncouth glaring peasant with greasy hair massed on either side of the pale dome of a bald head; he ends, in his last years, as a kind of sage. Between the extremes is a painting like the Self-Portrait (Portrait of the Artist with a Rose Background), with its powerfully modeled head, "formed...