Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Milosevic wanted to talk -- and talk he did. In five hours of conversation with TIME editors in his office in Belgrade, the President of Serbia had a succinct message for the world and specifically for the Clinton Administration: Lift the U.N.-imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia, and together we can bring peace to the Balkans in a matter of months. Trust...
Milosevic, the man held responsible for much of the bloodbath in the former Yugoslavia, has decided that after three years of war in Bosnia and Croatia, after untold rapes, the loss of an estimated 250,000 lives and the forced displacement of millions in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," he wants to be known as a peacemaker. That this is a tactical move, given his history and practice, seems beyond dispute. But whether what he offers may also constitute a real step toward an end to the tragedy of the Balkans is as unclear as his motivation...
...American, I shed a tear over the rescue of O'Grady, just as I would have shed a tear had he not been saved. I have not, however, spilled any tears over all those who have died in Yugoslavia since the war began. Am I strange and heartless, or is the whole world like me? There is no reason for Americans to become involved in what is still a regional conflict (except as part of nato). European leaders are again proving that they were born with a wishbone instead of a backbone. Every second, minute or day the war continues...
...state of their own in Bosnia, with the option of eventually uniting with their people in Serbia proper? Would that be a crime? It certainly wasn't the case when the Slovenes and Croats--as well as the Bosnian Muslims--sought independence from the then very viable state of Yugoslavia. More sinister agendas seem to be at work concerning the future of the Balkans; agendas by Western powers that want to divide and conquer, i.e., feed and control, instead of accepting the reality that the Christian Serbs, for obvious historical reasons, will not allow themselves once again to be subdued...
...made. As a Western diplomat put it, the situation in Bosnia was "going to be the same mishmash it has been." There would be no move from peacekeeping to forcible peacemaking, NATO defense ministers reaffirmed at a meeting in Brussels. At the same time, U.N. officials in the former Yugoslavia insisted that the new rapid-reaction force would operate under the rules that had applied since the beginning. The force would defend peacekeepers but would not launch offensive actions. UNPROFOR has always been permitted to use force in order to deliver aid, but it has never done so. The rapid...