Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burned our home. But they can never rest easy, because one day we will do the same to them, or worse. My children will get their revenge, or their children." No one anywhere can pretend any longer not to know what barbarity has engulfed the people of the former Yugoslavia...
...Balkans? Does the new world order that George Bush espouses encompass a minimal moral code, starting with the command of the Holocaust-inspired international convention on genocide to "prevent and to punish" mass killings of ethnic groups? Or is Secretary of State James Baker right to argue that in Yugoslavia -- and by extension in other bloody ethnic conflicts in countries not central to the immediate stability of the West -- "we don't have a dog in that fight...
...their rivals, are likewise guilty of barbarism -- and of inflating horror stories about the Serbs to win sympathy and support. But the Serb militiamen appear to be the worst offenders. "It is in the Serbian interest to terrorize civilians," says Andreas Khol, an Austrian politician ) who frequently visits Yugoslavia. "It is part and parcel of the plan for a Greater Serbia." Detention camps are just a way station before permanent expulsion...
Overwhelmingly, U.S. and European military experts warn against getting involved. Yugoslavia is almost custom designed to frustrate any peacekeeping, or peacemaking, force. The terrain is mountainous, perfect for ambushes and hit-and-run operations. Many of the irregulars are well trained and are skilled in guerrilla warfare. The weapons they would use against an intervening force are small, portable and abundant. Western analysts point out that the fathers and grandfathers of today's fighters tied down 30 Axis divisions for four years during World War II. The generals would prefer another Desert Storm: an obvious enemy, a clear military objective...
...bloodshed and suffering in the former Yugoslavia are providing the United Nations with a definitive test that will determine what role the body will play in the emerging post-Cold War word. Time, however, is running out. The world is now witnessing the takeover of an independent nation and the murder and displacement of much of its population. If the U.N. allows this to continue, then by its own inaction, it will have relegated itself to the role of a glorified bystander, unable even to defend the sovereignty of one of its member states...