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...audience also raised the concern that while much coverage has been given to Milosevic, very little has been given to the attitudes of Serbs in Kosovo or other Serb leaders. Bass said Milosevic has used Serb nationalism but it will not disappear were he removed from command...
...NATO dismissed the Serb offer as a nonstarter and kept on bombing. But the alliance also reiterated its own terms for a settlement: An end to the Serb offensive in Kosovo A withdrawal of Serb military, paramilitary and police units from the region The safe return of the refugees The presence of an international protection force to guarantee their security Autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia, along the lines envisaged at Rambouillet...
...even NATO's rejection of the Serb offer contained a concession -- the idea that the army protecting returning refugees would be an "international" rather than a NATO force. This allowed for Russian involvement, and opened up the issue of the composition of the Kosovo peacekeeping force -- which was not on the table at Rambouillet -- for negotiation...
...photo exhibit designed to justify their ethnic cleansing and brutal destruction at Vukovar. In a glass case was a steel instrument that looked like a tuning fork, but with the prongs spaced 3 1/2 in. apart. The Croat Ustache used to use the handy device to gouge out Serb prisoners' eyes, both at once. Applied art, indeed...
...Truth is the first casualty of war!" Milosevic announced with a flourish (and a subliminal wink, as if to say, "Ah, you are surprised that I speak in your cliches?"). The Serbs at that moment were blasting Sarajevo apart and "cleansing" the countryside of Muslims. Milosevic told us smoothly, "There is no Serb aggression...We are merely protecting ourselves." Besides, the Croats "cleansed" several hundred thousand Serbs 50 years before...