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...traditions of an entire region. Bands like Taraf learned their craft while Eastern Europe was still shut behind the Iron Curtain and so avoided the market forces that have weakened other folk traditions. Now, says Simon Broughton, were it not for Roma, the popular music of Romania, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia and many parts of Greece would be in a dire state: "The way to preserve this music is to use it, and that is what the Roma are doing. As for Roma themselves, hearing the music is more than entertainment." The irony is that while gypsy music is being welcomed...
These tribunals do not have any legitimate authority to judge these defendants. The only possible response to that from the backers of the tribunals is, “So what?” In Nuremburg, in Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, the “international community,” meaning the strong nations, decided that the crimes were so heinous that they didn’t care that they had no statutory authority under an existing legal framework to prosecute these cases. Rather, they invented a court and prosecutors, created rules for it to follow, and gave it powers (based...
...NETHERLANDS Senior Surrender Yugoslavia's former army commander turned himself in to the U.N. war-crimes tribunal but pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. General Dragoljub Ojdanic, who was army chief during the 1999 war in Kosovo, is the most senior war-crimes suspect to face charges after former President Slobodan Milosevic. He was the first to hand himself over after the Yugloslav government ordered 23 people to surrender or face possible arrest and extradition. "I have nothing to be ashamed of," he said...
Although the worlds of Rwanda and Yugoslavia seem to be vastly different, the machinations of both their leaders in the war crimes tribunals threaten the authority and future success of the international legal system and the ICC. For international jurisdiction even to have a chance, Bagosora and Milosovic must not be allowed to manipulate and circumvent the courts...
...strange and wonderful box of mini-comix last year (see TIME.comix review), "Stripburek" is a more straightforward collection of over fifty black and white works translated into English. Comix from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia are all here...