Word: serbia
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...have the people responsible for Serbia's new school history texts, which omit any mention of Milosevic, been allowed to distort the truth? The proper education of the young demands that full and accurate information be provided. RUDY HOEDEL Nanaimo...
...version of recent Balkan history is sharply at odds with that of his accusers. Prosecutors say Milosevic ruthlessly deported 800,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo; Milosevic says they left because of NATO's bombs and Kosovo Albanian terrorists. Prosecutors say the former President was attempting to form a "Greater Serbia," or at least a Serb-dominated state; Milosevic says the West broke up Yugoslavia to create a "Greater Albania." Prosecutors say Milosevic's troops committed unspeakable massacres; Milosevic says his troops did not massacre anyone and he was just defending his country from domestic terrorists...
...Geneva Convention during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. In common parlance, the 159 pages of charges catalog a shattering litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. The indictments accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...
...only ones to present a distorted version of their nation's past. Education consultants funded by the European Union have been working with teachers throughout the Balkans to provide a more balanced picture of the region for students. Last month they took up the job in Serbia, and a revised version of the text is promised by fall...
Varga is one of about 50,000 Romanians who have applied for the status cards over the past month. In Serbia, demand is so high that 25 Serbs tried to pass themselves off - unsuccessfully - as Hungarian in order to get cards. Despite its popularity, the law has drawn fire from officials in some neighboring countries, who argue that it violates their sovereignty and discriminates against non-ethnic Hungarians. "This law is part of an attempt to reclaim old territories," says Gheorghe Funar, the mayor of Cluj-Napoca, whose civic initiatives include banning bilingual signs and painting everything from park benches...