Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serb pattern of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other war crimes has continued basically uninterrupted for almost seven years... [The NATO bombing is] signaling to the Belgrade government that they can't continue with their pattern that they've engaged in for the past seven years," he said...
NATO had originally favored the pacifist Rugova over the insurgent KLA, and began dealing with the guerrilla group only after Serb repression had propelled them to center stage. "Washington was originally suspicious of the KLA, but embraced them at Rambouillet," says Waller...
Washington is alarmed at indications that leading Kosovar Albanian moderate Ibrahim Rugova may be moving toward some form of peace deal with Milosevic. Rugova reportedly met Russian diplomats Monday, after Serb TV last week showed him meeting with Milosevic, in footage that was supposedly taken last Wednesday...
Much of his strength lies in the weakness of his enemies. In 1996 the Serb President did suffer a scare when three months of protests over fraudulent elections filled the streets with disillusioned citizens demanding democratic change. But he held out long enough to allow the opposition to self-destruct in personal rivalries. Since then his strongest potential challengers have opted to join his government instead of fight it. In 1997, when the constitution barred him from a third term as President of Serbia, he stuck to legal niceties and "won" election as President of the Yugoslav Federation, transforming that...
...undiluted populist propaganda that is fed relentlessly through the state media. And some of it may simply be old-fashioned pride and nationalism, emotions no less powerful and gripping in Yugoslavia than in any other country. But that loyal core is enough, in the words of one Serb, to allow Milosevic "to steal any election." It also gives him the causes and crises that make him irreplaceable. "We are for Slobo because he is for us," explained Velimir Djurica at his plumbing stall in Belgrade's black market last week. "The foreign boot must...