Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despicable actions of the Yogoslav forces fly in the face of Milosevic's protestations for peace and make it clear that, at least for the foreseeable future, it will be impossible for the Kosovar Albanians to live safely under Yugoslav control. An autonomous Kosovo will require the protection of an international force; even if the current conflict remains air-based, some type of ground forces, U.S. or otherwise, must eventually become involved after the fighting has ceased...
...NATO's low-and-slow tank- and troop-killing warplanes away and confined vaunted alliance firepower to Everest-high altitudes. In Belgrade government officials chortled that the damage to their air-defense systems was "minimal" despite a NATO expenditure of "230 grams of high explosives per head" of every Yugoslav. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia's well-armed infantry stormed through Kosovo virtually untouched. "It is difficult to say," admitted Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon, "that we have prevented one act of brutality...
...planners. The only measure that matters in air war is how many bombs are delivered on target, and last week's score paled alongside the explosive power that rained down on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Gulf War. NATO's 400 warplanes are launching roughly 100 strikes against Yugoslav targets every day. But foul weather has kept about half those warplanes from releasing their weapons. The resulting 50 effective daily strikes fall dramatically short of the 1,000 launched each day during the first week of the gulf conflict by 2,700 warplanes. This week NATO proposes...
Born in 1952 in Brezice, Slovenia, the son of a Yugoslav air force colonel, Arkan left the country as a teenager. Moving across Europe for the next 20 years, he racked up a formidable criminal record: his seven outstanding Interpol warrants include armed robbery and other crimes. In the '70s he became affiliated with the Yugoslav authorities, and by the mid '80s he was back in Belgrade, working for the state security service. In the late '80s he became the leader of a Belgrade soccer team's fan club, a group that was transformed into his paramilitary unit...
...years Milosevic and his myrmidons insisted that Arkan acted alone. But Arkan has begun to hint that such may not be the case, that Milosevic did know about his activities. "When I was in Croatia, I was under the command of the Yugoslav army," Arkan says. "In Bosnia I was under the command of the MUP [Interior Ministry]." The implication: he was acting under Milosevic's orders...