Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pristina, Kosovo is ablaze as Serbian security forces pursue their deadly dismantling of the ethnic-Albanian rebellion. First comes artillery fire, targeting suspected Kosovo Liberation Army bases in a village. Then armored infantry rolls in to take over the town. Finally foot soldiers arrive, looting and burning, to strike terror among ethnic-Albanian villagers. Despite the first snows in the mountains, hundreds of thousands flee their homes. Some find shelter with relatives, others in neighboring Albania or Montenegro, but tens of thousands are still in the remote hills and forests of the embattled province, where they huddle in rough outdoor...
...last month, the Serb leader had turned his counteroffensive against the rebel army into a campaign of terror against Albanian villages. Suddenly, whole sections of the population were being driven from their homes, but the Western response remained inaudible. In part, critics charge that the U.S. tacitly let Milosevic go ahead because the West also wanted to break the back of the rebel army, whose lack of structure threatened regional stability...
Western countries cannot trust Russia and must never give it billions and billions of dollars. Why? Because Russia is so unreliable. We must not forget how Soviet power worked in our century. Soviet communism murdered 49 million people under a regime of terror, concentration camps and hunger. We Finns, especially, will never forget what an unmasked Russia is. ANTTI PEKOLA Pori, Finland...
...should the world find Clinton's missile attacks in Sudan and Afghanistan acceptable when he found the terror bombings against the U.S. embassies in Africa unacceptable [NATION, Sept. 7]? I thought the only way to deal with terrorism was through international agreements and diplomacy. I thought only terrorists used violence to reach their goals. But I was wrong, so wrong. And by the way, in what fashion did he think terrorists would respond? How else but with new bombings? When is the violence going to stop? Who is going to stop the vendettas? HARRIETH LUNDBERG, 17 Kvaloysletta, Norway...
...Unfortunately, the victims were mainly poor Tanzanians and Kenyans going about their normal daily activities. In no way have the perpetrators gained anything. The suspects are Muslims, and I wonder whose teachings they are following. Muhammad's? Definitely not. He practiced Islam the religion of peace. Please--peace, not terror. MUBARAK BIDMOS Pretoria, South Africa...