Word: yugoslavias
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...That principle-trying the makers of murderous policy, not just its executors-has become imperative since the war crimes trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, and it stands at the heart of the ongoing international tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. But those special international courts can range more broadly than the Scottish one, which despite the oddity of being in the Netherlands had the fundamental task of judging a mass murder that occurred in Lockerbie. The court thus explicitly accepted testimony that al-Megrahi was a member of Libya's intelligence service but left...
...waves of migrants, like the Finns who arrived after World War II, assimilated quickly into Swedish society, their transition facilitated by racial affinity and the fact that the dominant culture was never seriously challenged. Today's newcomers are more likely to be refugees from Africa, Asia or the former Yugoslavia, and in a setting like Hjällboskolan, the sheer plurality of nationalities complicates the process of assimilation...
...Belgrade Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte met strong resistance to her attempts to persuade Yugoslav authorities to extradite former strongman Slobodan Milosevic from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under...
...first meeting between international war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and Yugoslavia's new president Vojislav Kostunica appears to have ended badly Tuesday. Was this any surprise...
...Crusader's woes won't end even if the gun manages to find its way to faraway runways. In the U.S. military's two most recent wars--against Iraq and Yugoslavia--Army officers were leery of pushing their tanks to Baghdad or Belgrade over flimsy bridges. If orders had come to take those capitals, engineers would have had to spend weeks reinforcing the spans or putting up new ones, hardly a blueprint for a blitzkrieg...