Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taranovsky, who was born in what is now Tartu, Estonia, grew up in Tartu, St. Petersburg and Kharkov. His father, a professor of Slavic law, emigrated with his family to Yugoslavia soon after the Bolshevik revolution...
...After 90 minutes, his captors shot Turajlic, a Muslim, seven times in the chest and head through the open door of the U.N. armored car, in the presence of five French peacekeepers. He died at U.N. headquarters, the first high-level political figure to be assassinated in the former Yugoslavia's civil...
...second Nuremberg may not be possible, but the U.N. is on a path that could lead to trials. The Security Council last October authorized a commission of legal experts from five countries to document war crimes in Yugoslavia. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the process thus begun would end by creating an appropriate court to judge the accused. The expert commission has already received 3,000 pages of testimony on war crimes in Bosnia from governments, aid organizations and individuals, mostly refugees. After analyzing the information, the experts will report to Boutros-Ghali...
With such a dead end likely, many experts are skeptical about how serious Eagleburger and the U.S. government are when they speak of war crimes. Some critics believe that Washington is raising the issue to mask its unwillingness to use force against the criminals in Yugoslavia. The public charges, says Rosalyn Higgins, a professor of international law at the London School of Economics, reflect "impotence or inability for political reasons...
...number mentioned in public -- are being held under intolerable conditions in concentration camps in Bosnia and Serbia. Those camps' lines of command, according to intelligence reports, lead straight to Belgrade, the Serbian capital. But the West seems so embarrassed at what it has recently discovered in the former Yugoslavia that it does nothing about...