Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made them wary of talking to Crimson reporters at all. Hasty editing and headlining also lead to complaints of mischaracterization. Most recently, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz pointed out that a story in which he denied representing Radovan Karadzic ran with the headline "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." The story also omitted Dershowitz's caveat that he had not spoken with Karadzic in a year. As a result, the "entire thrust of the story was wrong," complained Dershowitz...
...apparently included these facts in the story and proposed the headline, "Dershowitz Denies Representing Karadzic" But the story did not end up appearing that way. It ended up with the following headline: "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." Nor did it include the important fact that I had not spoken to Karadzic for over a year...
Meanwhile, the Kosovar rebels have grown just as dangerously belligerent and uncompromising. "The Serbs have been trampling all over us for years," said the young tough at the Smonica checkpoint. "Not any more. We are not Bosnian Muslims, and we will not allow ourselves to get butchered." That cockiness, combined with Serb intransigence and Western inaction, is a perfect recipe for a wider...
Until a year or so ago, the estimated 1.8 million Kosovars responded to Belgrade's iron hand largely with passive resistance. Then a small militant group calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army started killing Serb policemen and Kosovar collaborators. By the end of last year, they had carved out several no-go zones in the central region, pushing the Serb police into hasty retreat. Starting Feb. 28, Milosevic ordered a lethal sweep against the strongest of the rebel zones, killing more than 80 Kosovars, including 30 women, children and elderly...
That galvanized ethnic Albanians. The Liberation Army built up a concentration of forces near the Albanian border, and with an escape route closer to hand, the guerrillas grew more brazen, attacking Serb police and military camps. Four rebels maintaining a checkpoint at the border village of Smonica two weeks ago were cocky with confidence they could take on the Serbs. "I hate them so much that if I fired my gun up in the air, the bullet would find its own way right between some Serb's eyes," said one of the guards, cradling his rifle. "Every day people come...