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...previously said that the deeper challenge posed by a Milosevic trial is the soul-searching necessary for Serbian society as a whole on the issue of complicity in his crimes. Is Serbia now more open to dealing with its recent past...
...word one wouldn't normally apply to a war film set on the Bosnia-Serbian border. And one could choke on the laughs that Tanovic evokes, at the co(s)mic absurdity of this or any war. But the novice director has devised a devious satire, in which everyone is splendidly misguided, from the ethnic enemies who wind up in the same trench to the French and British U.N. soldiers who try helplessly to impose peace on centuries of fratricide...
...claim of statehood, as did Indonesian nationalists and supporters of independence for East Timor. During the Kosovo campaign that year, Chinese, Yugoslav and Russian hackers joined forces against NATO. Independent American hackers brought down the Yugoslav state site, though that unwittingly undermined NATO's strategy of trying to fight Serbian propaganda by bombing conventional state-run media while leaving the local Internet infrastructure intact...
...SERBIA Border Clashes Fighting flared in the troubled Presevo Valley as Yugoslav security forces clashed with ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo. Government soldiers killed 14 insurgents while storming a rebel stronghold in the village of Oraovica, and a Serbian police officer was killed in a separate incident near Presevo. Near Kosovo's eastern border, the Macedonian government extended the deadline for ethnic Albanian separatists to surrender or face a major offensive. Thousands of civilians were reported to be leaving the area to avoid being caught in the crossfire...
...Serbian snipers at work in the hills above Sarajevo a few years ago kept themselves dosed with slivovitz around the clock (as extra insurance against inhibitions of conscience) and potted away at women and children darting through the city under their cross hairs. Collateral damage is supposed to mean a mistake, but this killing was deliberate, focused and recreational. War is a great and terrible permission. A spirit of satanic play shoots a jolt of lethal impulse through the trigger finger. This is absolute power, on a person-to-person basis. It tends to corrupt absolutely. Degenerate violence takes...