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...mortar and car-bomb attack by Sunni insurgents on Thursday, is sure to accelerate the cleansing. The constant churn of people moving and resettling is an indication of how far the country has moved toward an irreversible breakup, similar to the one the world witnessed in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Al-Qaeda in Iraq's bloody campaign against Shi'ites nationwide has ensured that almost all of western Iraq is clear of Shi'ites. Iraq's Kurdish territory in the north has all but seceded. As for Baghdad, where the ultimate fate of Iraq will be decided...
...Canadian history and civics. Hampel claimed to be a former lifeguard and travel consultant living in Montreal since 1999. Journalists found a website he had set up where he described his extensive travels abroad and published photos of the countries he visited, primarily in Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia. But during a brief court appearance, Hampel displayed a decidedly low level of proficiency in French, the language of work and industry in Quebec. When the judge asked him if he spoke French, he responded "un peu" - a bit - with an accent other than English...
...path will become a potent—if unconventional—tool in the quest for religious and political conciliation.THE PROJECTCo-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Ury has mediated situations ranging from corporate mergers to ethnic war in the former Yugoslavia. In 1982, he founded the organization now known as the GNP, with the intention of lessening the possibility of nuclear war between the USSR and America.With the close of the Cold War, Ury turned the GNP’s attention toward the Middle East, an area in which he has long...
...rapidly deteriorating conditions that underlie the political arm-wrestling recall the opening months of the wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia. "Ethnic cleansing" has continued apace inside Baghdad, as Shi'ite militias extend their control over mixed neighborhoods by violently forcing out Sunnis. But if the Shi'ite militias control much of the capital, reports suggest that Sunni insurgent groups are tightening their grip along road-transportation routes into and out of the capital. Such tactics have previously allowed the Sunni insurgents to choke fuel supplies into the capital. With that kind of virtual stalemate prevailing, Maliki...
Carla del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, next week opens the prosecution of seven men suspected of the murder of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim inhabitants of the town of Srebrenica in 1995. She met Time's Andrew Purvis at her offices in the Dutch city of the Hague and discussed the frustrations of her work, the hunt for Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and the war in Iraq. After 13 years, the U.N. war-crimes tribunal is nearing the end of its work. Has it been worth it? Definitely...