Word: yugoslavias
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...Nazism, but his books are less about Hitler than all the Hitlers: his belief that the suffering was not caused just by one man, but by the lust for power of all the predators out there. "And if you think they're dead," Furst adds, "take a look at Yugoslavia. They're still out there, alive and well...
...course with elements of their erstwhile allies in the KLA who are now seeking new targets. U.S. troops on Wednesday wounded two ethnic Albanian guerrillas in a firefight near the Macedonian village of Tanusevci, marking a dangerous new escalation of the risk to NATO forces in the region. With Yugoslavia now ruled by a democratic nationalist regime more acceptable to the West, many in NATO would plainly be more comfortable having Yugoslav troops facing off against the insurgents than with putting Western troops in harm...
...most dramatic setback suffered by Kosovo's Albanian nationalists was probably the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence for Kosovo dimmed even further. That, and President George W. Bush's campaign promise to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, may have prompted Albanian nationalists across the region to step up their campaign for a Greater Albania, by launching new insurgencies in Serbia's Presevo Valley (which falls in a demilitarized buffer zone adjacent to Kosovo) and in northern...
...proportion to any increase in direct danger to their troops. For some, that appears to make a compelling case for bringing back the Yugoslav army to police the borders NATO is now committed to upholding. Who knows, at this rate they may yet find themselves pining for the former Yugoslavia...
...Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought this was possible. These people are animals," she said. One Albanian gang branded its women with tattoos to prevent them from being stolen.Lately, the practice has surfaced in the Balkans in a particularly brutal form. Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, once mainly source countries for women lured into the trade (during the Kosovo refugee crisis, traffickers combed the camps for "recruits"), have now become transit and destination countries as well. The influx of international peacekeepers, U.N. administrators and development officials in Bosnia and Kosovo has created a burgeoning market...