Word: serbia
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...Over the next four days Tatiana (her name and all those of women victims in this story have been changed) was smuggled in the backs of cars across successive borders through Serbia and eventually to a dusty little town in the war-torn province of Kosovo, where she was sold for a second time to two burly Albanian bar owners named Nazif and Luli. They forced her to have sex with as many as four clients a night. "One of them would hit me, then give me something to wipe my tears with and lead me across the floor...
...KFOR has been working recently to try and stop the flow of men and weapons from Kosovo into the buffer zone in southern Serbia, where the extremists have been conducting an insurgency. And this attack raises a dilemma for the NATO-led forces, because it happened in a region nearby and it's a clear message from the extremists to leave them alone, or else KFOR could be next. I don't know what KFOR is going to do with this message, but I'll be very surprised if they try to clamp down on the extremists. Because...
...Belgrade Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte met strong resistance to her attempts to persuade Yugoslav authorities to extradite former strongman Slobodan Milosevic from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under...
...More importantly, he questions the court's reluctance to investigate what he calls war crimes committed by NATO during the 1999 bombing of Serbia, and also alleges that the court is biased against Serbs. But what he's really worried about is that cooperating too closely with the Hague tribunal right now would provide too much ammunition to his domestic political enemies. He's facing pressure from the West to hand Milosevic over, but on the other hand there's a lot of resistance, not only from the opposition, but even from members of his own coalition. That...
...thing, whether a Yugoslav citizen should be turned over to the Hague tribunal or be tried at home. But on a deeper level, it's about how, or whether, to confront crimes committed in the name of Serbia during the wars of the past decade...