Word: serbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was any doubt that Slobodan Milosevic was at the heart of this transformation of terror, it ended last week when a U.N. war-crimes tribunal announced it had indicted him and his subordinates on four counts for Serbian actions in Kosovo. It was the first time such a tribunal had ever indicted a sitting head of state, but the monstrosity of what has happened in Kosovo, the tribunal explained, demanded dramatic action. The evidence is easy to see, both inside Kosovo and outside its borders. Kosovars in the refugee camps of Macedonia and Albania have few comforts other than...
...Serbian troops have demolished block after block in Pristina, the provincial capital. Beauty shops and bookstores are burned; cafes, stationery stores, pharmacies, a baby shop with infant supplies and toddler toys, accountants' offices--all are a shambles. Desks and office chairs are overturned; drawers with papers are strewn about. Glass storefronts are shattered, window blinds protruding onto the street like broken ribs. There is no evidence of bombs or missiles: almost every roof is intact. The signs of rage and destruction--before the war, this was a city of 250,000 people, mostly Albanians, and the devastation is city-wide...
...exodus continues. At a bus station in Pristina, about 100 Albanians, mostly old women, waited last Tuesday to board for the 60-mile drive to Skopje in Macedonia. An Albanian woman whispered that the trip cost 20 deutsche marks (almost $11) and took about four hours. With a Serbian army escort urging visitors to clear the area because "it is too dangerous," the woman was asked why she was leaving. The escort interjected, "Because of NATO bombs, right?" The Albanian woman glared. "No! The police...
Last week reporters were taken to a Pristina suburb to view the site of a NATO cluster-bomb attack. The bombs had missed the intended target, a welding factory, Serbian officials said, and hit an adjacent Albanian village, destroying 10 homes and injuring seven people. That did appear to be the case; the distinctive craters left by cluster bombs marked a vegetable and herb garden, releasing an incongruous aroma of onions and chives amid the debris. Roofs were shattered, and one bomb had landed in the center of a family's living room. Why bomb here...
Sure, the CIA may have the most expensive and sophisticated intelligence operation in the world. But that doesn't mean it has the right maps. After a U.S. B-2 bomber struck the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last month, mistaking it for a Serbian military-supply building, State Department and Pentagon officials placed discreet phone calls to foreign missions in Washington. Could you please provide us, they asked, with the address of your embassy in the Yugoslav capital? The embassies were only too happy to supply the info. Some of the more wary foreign capitals, in fact, had phoned...