Word: yugoslavia
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Fast Facts: • Born in a stable to a poor family in Savnik, Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia), in 1945. His father was a member of the Chetniks, the remnants of the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was wounded in World War II while fighting Nazi occupiers...
...Nazi Germany. Carl Diem, the secretary-general of the 1936 Berlin Games, pitched the event as a way to infuse the Games with pageantry and buff the mythic image of the Third Reich. That year, on its way from Greece to Germany, the flame passed through Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia - all of which would be annexed or occupied within a few years. (See a timeline of the 2008 Olympic-torch relay...
...tapped Goldstone to head the probe in the hope that his impeccable credentials at the head of tribunals investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda - as well as the fact that he is Jewish, is said by those close to him to be a friend of Israel, and is a trustee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - would make him acceptable to the Israeli side. Goldstone only agreed to head the inquiry after the U.N. heeded his insistence on expanding the probe to include not only allegations of Israeli war crimes, but also the actions of Palestinian militants...
...never surrender their own citizens, hence Polaski's ability to evade arrest for over 30 years.) Political crimes are rarely extraditable because countries don't want to be accused of aiding a coup or opposing a foreign regime. In 1934, an Italian court refused to extradite the assassins of Yugoslavia's King Alexander, on the grounds that the crime was political...
...anti-Israel smear. Goldstone has ties to Israel and a reputation for honest exploration of politically sensitive subjects built in the course of his work at the head of the his country's Truth Commission and, later, of the Hague tribunal for war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia. Nevertheless, his report is being read as a smear in the Israeli mainstream. (See pictures of Israel's assault on Gaza...