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...There is the larger question of Milosevic's role in war crimes. The ex-President's startling admission - made last week in a written response to the charges - that the money from Kertes' office was used not for personal gain but to fund Serb rebel armies in Croatia and Bosnia was the first time that the strongman had acknowledged Belgrade's financial role in fomenting the Balkan wars...
...premiere took place in New York last September, and the next performances are scheduled for April in Washington and San Jose. The finale is to take place next year in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia and Serb cultural center. As Dimic explains, the idea is to see if “those who stayed in Serbia can recognize someone of their...
...bring up the howls of yesterday (actually, most good Democrats are still howling, or else preserve the election of 2000 in their hearts in the way a Croatian grandmother may cherish the bloody shirt in which her husband was stabbed by a Serb, in order to show it to her grandchildren and swear them to revenge) - I bring up these howls not to disturb the dead horse of that election, but to make a different point...
...Nazis, Serbian warlords, ethnic Albanian guerillas, English football hooligans - who still cling to more restrictive, and virulent, notions of identity and nationhood. But for just as many, such boundaries no longer signify anything. Sascha Pichler, 27, was born in Salzburg, Austria to parents of Austrian, Czech, Russian and Serb descent. She spent her childhood in Malaysia, the U.S., Portugal and Germany. After earning degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics, she moved to Brussels. She rarely sits still: since January she has been to Paris, London, Nice, Milan and Vienna. "It's so automatic. You forget...
While the rank and file of the N.L.A. may be a ragtag group, its leadership probably is not. It is widely assumed by diplomats and local Albanian leaders that the top commanders--operating under names like "Cobra" and "The Beard"--include men who battled Serb units in 1998 and 1999 with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Significantly, ex-K.L.A. commanders in Kosovo have declined to condemn the insurgency, and a radical Kosovo leader last week claimed solidarity with the new group. Moreover, the hit-and-run attacks on police outposts closely resemble K.L.A. tactics during the Kosovo conflict. The guerrillas...