Word: serbs
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...confrontation with Belgrade, or presses forward for full independence. Milosevic has called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic, and the Serb leader would happily send in his army to back them up in a showdown with Djukanovic. That would force NATO...
...truncheons seemed excessive. Marta Manojlovic was already on the ground--helpless and bleeding from a head wound--when the Serb cops worked her over with the hard rubber batons. As she faded into unconsciousness, the cops started in with the kicks, as if her midsection was an errant soccer ball. Manojlovic is 17, and small for her age. But she disturbs the security men who are responsible for keeping Slobodan Milosevic jammed into power...
...days and involving more than 900 aircraft, hundreds of cruise missiles, four aircraft carriers and more than a dozen other ships and submarines. Their mission was to use air power to halt or diminish a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo--while not destroying as much Serbian military equipment...
...reflected, at least on the allied side, all the inhibitions of two centuries of effort to limit warfare as well as a growing spirit of international community. As a French pilot remarked during the operation, "We don't want to bomb these bridges over the Danube or hurt the Serb people. They are our European brothers. And who will have to pay to rebuild the bridges?" The political constraints of Operation Allied Force and the preoccupation with avoiding casualties and risks were derived from its purpose--to support human rights and promote regional stability--and the fact that NATO member...
ARRESTED. MOMCILO KRAJISNIK, 55, top Bosnian Serb war leader; by NATO troops; on war crimes charges, including genocide; in Pale, Bosnia. He pleaded not guilty in the Hague...