Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serbs' will to fight but also to destroy the idea that dictators could commit the nastiest of crimes as long as they acted inside their own country. It was a war, says Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, an influential Clinton adviser, designed to show that men like Slobodan Milosevic "cannot hide behind a border." But for Clinton it may also be the war that allows him to establish a foreign policy for the 21st century...
...week, as a team of TIME reporters spent days in and around Pec (prewar pop. 100,000), it was possible to discern method in the Serbs' awful madness. Kosovo, the evidence suggests, was razed by a killing machine on orders that stretched directly from Yugoslavia's commander in chief Slobodan Milosevic to the armed thug on the streets. The stories of Pec reveal in miniature how the entire plan worked...
...calling people ?traitors? -? it could be an ethnic Albanian postman working for the Serb authorities, or even just one who questioned KLA strategy." If proved, the charges against Thaci could be embarrassing for Washington, which on Thursday put a $5 million bounty on the head of another war thug, Slobodan Milosevic. The U.S. association with Thaci may also be dangerous for the Balkans as a whole. "The KLA hasn?t abandoned its goal of creating a Greater Albania, and pictures of U.S. officials alongside KLA leaders sends the message that Washington supports the KLA option," says Anastasijevic. "That...
Swiss bankers just ain?t what they used to be. The federal police office of Switzerland has frozen any and all funds belonging to Slobodan Milosevic and four of his high-ranking Serb cohorts. All it took was a request from the Hague international war-crimes tribunal and the Swiss, long the favored financial refuge of the rich and shady, were ready to play ball. One thing: Despite claims by NATO officials that Slobo has been socking it away in not only Switzerland but Greece, Russia, Cyprus and Lebanon, the Swiss haven?t found any money yet. Which...
Quick, who killed more than 10,000 people last year and drove millions more from their homes? The answer begins with an M... Nope, it wasn?t Slobodan Milosevic; it was a hurricane with the easygoing moniker of Mitch. In fact, more people were turned into refugees by Mother Nature in 1998 than by wars and other conflicts, according to the International Red Cross World Disasters Report 1999. The report says that violent weather episodes from China and India through the Philippines and Central America killed 20,000 people and impacted dramatically on the lives of some 250 million others...