Word: serbians
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Speaking to a crowd that included Serbs, Kosovars, and members of the Harvard community, Serbian President Boris Tadic discussed the challenges of supporting democracy and resolving ethnic disputes in Southeastern Europe in an event last night at the Kennedy School of Government...
Kosovo is a part of Serbia and Montenegro, a loose union of states, but it has been under the protection of a United Nations force since 1999, when fighting broke out between Serbian forces and pro-independence elements of the Albanian majority in Kosovo...
...bubble of Serb denial was ruptured last month by the release of a video clip presented as evidence by the prosecution at Milosevic's trial. On that tape, shown on TV in Serbia, viewers saw a group of soldiers from Serbia - all of them identified as members of Serbian special police unit known as Scorpions - executing six starved Muslim prisoners in cold blood...
...backlash came quickly. Nationalists, who still dominate local media and politics, launched a vicious campaign against Natasa Kandic, the Serbian human rights activist who had uncovered the tape and given it to the Hague tribunal. Kandic, named as one of Time's Heroes in 2003 for her work exposing war crimes, has been branded a traitor and the leader of a conspiracy to demonize her own country - a group of legislators even called for a national referendum to stop her from working in Serbia, while others wanted her locked up in a mental hospital. A scheduled TV appearance in Kikinda...
...Thanks to the brave efforts of Kandic and others brave enough to rub the nation's face into unpleasant facts, the Serbian wall of silence over Srebrenica may be shattered beyond repair. Indeed, the hysteria of the campaign to silence her is a sure sign of the fact that Serbia has finally begun to digest its ugly past. It hurts, and it's bound to make some people angry, but it will eventually end with some sort of closure. Not, of course, for the killers and their acomplices, but for the victims of Srebrenica and other places of horror...