Word: seizinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unending war has become an occupation force, seizing village after village of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its vicious grip. Across trenches and rubble- strewn no-man's-lands reminiscent of World War I, Bosnian and Serb soldiers blaze away on dozens of small battlefields. TIME photographer James Nachtwey spent the...
The atrocities of ethnic conflict -- today, Bosnia -- are described in terms of death camps and genocide. But this use of terms borrowed from the Holocaust betrays a poverty of language. The Nazi achievement lay not in building barbaric prison camps or seizing villages through expulsion and terror. That is an...
The real injustice here is the idea that the stabbing was an inevitable tragedy for everyone involved. By delving into the pasts of the murderers and seizing upon any tidbit of possible trauma, the media is sending a signal that this story is more complicated than it might appear. The...
Defense Secretary Les Aspin had explained the drops as a way to demonstrate the West's determination to get relief supplies into the Muslim enclaves by ) any means possible, so the Serb forces might as well unblock the roads and allow the U.N. truck convoys to pass. Though a considerable...
By 6:30, the President came to the screening room in the residence with time for only one run-through. The tough passages about taxes and spending had been moved up four pages, but the President laughed at the new ending. "I had written about 'these precious moments,' " Begala recalls...