Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comparisons with the Nazis have abounded throughout the Yugoslav crisis, and there are some grisly parallels. The human suffering Milosevic has furthered is apparent enough. His orchestrated policy of "ethnic cleansing" has produced over a million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead, and more than 20,000 women brutally raped in a warped plan to produce more Serbian children...
...back up the no-fly order -- and further military actions like air strikes on Serbian artillery. British diplomats claim the U.S. has even floated the idea of contributing 100,000 troops to a Western force that could be deployed to prevent the Serbs from moving next into the former Yugoslav segments of Kosovo and Macedonia...
...PENTAGON HAS QUIETLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF AN Italian air base, just in case the Yugoslav conflict triggers international military action. Under an agreement signed in October, 12 American F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS would hop over from Germany and park at Gioia del Colle, south of Bari, Italy, when needed. The Italians have also agreed to allow expanded U.S. operations at Sigonella Air Station in Sicily...
...nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat in Belgrade, "but things will begin to hurt very quickly...
Indeed, the view from much of Europe is that America is slipping off the radar screen. This sense of a rudderless alliance, moreover, coincides with a tide of crises already crashing or brewing next door: the Yugoslav war, which many observers think will spread soon to Kosovo and Macedonia, and Boris Yeltsin's deepening emergency in Russia. Bush at first left the Balkan conflagration in Europe's hands; of late, Washington-led NATO has skirmished with the strictly European institutions on and off for the right to do nothing about the crisis. Overall, the Euro-American partnership seems so idle...