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...focus on incidents that occurred in Haradinaj's home region during the war. In one of these, 40 civilians were shot or clubbed to death and dumped in a ditch not far from Haradinaj's home village, in a region nominally under his control. In another case, following a Roma wedding party, several women were raped and four men shot to death. Though Serbian authorities have long accused Haradinaj of war crimes and demanded he be removed from office, no evidence linking him to these crimes has ever been made public. A Serb war-crimes court last month brought charges...
Righting the Roma BULGARIA Leaders of eight Central and East European countries met in Sofia to launch the Decade of Roma Inclusion, the first major joint initiative to end the plight of the region's largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority. Sponsored by George Soros' Open Society Institute, the World Bank and the European Union, the program focuses on health, education, housing and employment. A major new survey of the region's Roma by the United Nations Development Program will serve as a benchmark. Soros told TIME that he is "very optimistic" about the initiative's potential impact. "It will...
...GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP-Getty Images Roma in Albania...
When a one-euro coin hurtled down from the stands in Rome's Stadio Olimpico in September and bloodied the forehead of a referee, some fans saw it as little more than bad luck. It cost their team, AS Roma, a penalty of playing two home games before an empty stadium. "Think of all the stuff that gets thrown on the field," a fan later griped, "and only ours hits the target...
...History Lesson ROMANIA President Ion Iliescu acknowledged his country's responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Roma during World War II. His comments came after he received a report on the Holocaust in Romania from an international commission headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel...