Word: sarajevo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...truth that many Serbs continue to avoid is that Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other Bosnian Serb warlords could have never have accomplished their ethnic cleansing campaigns, the brutal siege of Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica massacre, without troops and equipment from Serbia. Thousands of Serbian police and military officers, thinly disguised as "volunteers", were put on Mladic's disposal by former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, and they were more than willing executioners...
...first time in 50 years, it is the U.S. that needs Europe's help, rather than the other way around. Americans realize that, without European diplomacy, money and soft power, freedom's march would be a lot more halting. In Kiev, Sarajevo, Ankara, Ramallah and even Tehran, the E.U. is having a more constructive impact than the U.S. Yet the E.U.'s transformative power is often confused with weakness. The E.U. doesn't change countries by threatening to invade them. Its biggest threat is not intervention but withdrawal of the hand of friendship and especially the prospect of membership...
...uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call the hijackers cowardly, a judgment issued with her typical brisk authority and with the inevitable result that it sounded callous, however true it may have been. At the height of the Serbian campaign against Sarajevo she traveled to that city more than a dozen times to help focus world attention on Serbian atrocities. To lift morale, she even directed a production there of Waiting for Godot. The exhausted locals would probably have preferred Cats, but her heart was in the right place...
...intellectual; in New York City. Although she was best known for her works of nonfiction, including Against Interpretation and the critical study On Photography, Sontag wrote fiction (including The Way We Live Now and the best-selling The Volcano Lover), directed films, produced the movie Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, and wrote numerous articles?proving, according to her own definition, that a writer should be "someone who is interested in everything...
...Military Might BOSNIA The E.U.'s defense force, EUFOR, took over NATO's peacekeeping duties at a formal handover ceremony in Sarajevo. It is EUFOR's biggest mission since its formation last year. More Fraud? ROMANIA The government denied allegations of fraud in the Nov. 28 presidential and parliamentary elections. The ruling Social Democratic Party won the most votes, but not an outright majority. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and the center-right Justice and Truth Alliance's Traian Basescu face a runoff vote for President on Dec. 12. Neighborhood Dispute DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kigali denied reports that its troops...