Yugoslavia

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My Letter Published in the Wall Street Journal: Bob Dole's Corrupted Opinion on Bosnia

Julia Gorin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Balkans, Julia Gorin, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Wall Street Journal, Bob Dole, Serbs, Politics News

Below is the original version of my letter that the Wall Street Journal published today. Because of space considerations, there was no room for the wh...

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Strategic Bombing, Karzai, M1117, Sheriff of Nottingham, Mraps, Poppy, Afghanistan, Robin Hood, President Obama, Yugoslavia, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Iraq War, Afghan Poppy Crop, Humvees, Michael Brogin, Iraq, Opium, Belgrade, World News

I would like to propose that we consider another strategy -- strategic bombing. Take poppy fields, for example ... For once, we could be using our billion dollar bombers on billion dollar targets.

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Jelena Dokic's father has jail sentence confirmed

AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Belgrade, Ruma-Serbia, Serbia, Australia, Yugoslavia, Home News

The father of tennis player Jelena Dokic is facing a retrial on charges that he threatened the Australian ambassador to Serbia.

Damir Dokic was sentenced to 15 months in jail in June, but a retrial was ordered because ambassador Claire Birgin did not testify in person during the original hearing. She was represented by a lawyer.

The 50-year-old Dokic was brought under police escort to the court in Ruma, northwest of Belgrade.

His lawyer Bosiljka Djukic said Thursday that "we expect justice from the court and that Damir will be a free man."

Dokic was arrested in May after reportedly saying he would blow up Birgin's car if she didn't stop negative articles about him from being published in Australia.

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Milan And Sredoje Lukic, Bosnian Serbs, Convicted Of Burning Over 100 Muslims Alive

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A U.N. war crimes court convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins Monday for a 1992 killing spree that included locking scores...

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Bosnian Serbs convicted of burning Muslims alive

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home

Read More: The Hague-Netherlands, Netherlands, Visegrad, The Netherlands, Argentina, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Home News

A U.N. war crimes court convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins Monday for a 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive.

Yugoslav war crimes tribunal judge Patrick Robinson said burning at least 119 Muslims to death in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad "exemplified the worst acts of inhumanity that one person may inflict on others."

He sentenced Milan Lukic to life in prison and Sredoje Lukic to 30 years.

Robinson said Milan Lukic was the ringleader in both incidents, helping herd victims into the houses, setting the fires and shooting those who fled the flames. The judgment said his cousin Sredoje Lukic aided and abetted in one of the blazes

Witnesses "vividly remembered the terrible screams of the people in the house," Robinson said, adding that Milan Lukic used the butt of his rifle to herd people into the house, saying, "Come on, let's get as many people inside as possible."

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Serbia: 10 Years Later

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Vojislav Kostunica, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Yugoslavia, Milosevic Regime, Clinton, Serbia, Monty Python, World News

The United States deserves little credit for the positive developments in Serbia and a fair amount of blame for the country's remaining problems.

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The US War on Yugoslavia: Ten Years Later

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Serbia, Bill Clinton, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Slobodan Milosovic, Nato, Ibrahim Rugova, Bush Administration, Obama, Osce, 1973 War Powers Act, Rambouillet, Kla, World News

For many Democrats, the 1999 U.S-led war in Yugoslavia was a "good" war, in contrast to the "bad" war in Iraq. But it was still an unnecessary and illegal war, with political consequences that are far from settled.

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Balkan Myths

John Feffer | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Nato, Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, World News

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Kosovo.

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Ratko Mladic: Mistaken Identity In Arrest For War-Crimes Suspect

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Yugoslavia Genocide Arrest, Bosnia, Foreign Affairs, Serbia, War Crimes Arrest, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia Genocide, Ratko Mladic, Ratko Mladic Arrested, War Crimes, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, Croatia, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — A water-sports instructor was mistakenly arrested by Kenyan police who believed he was wanted for war crimes in the former Yugo...

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Yugoslavia Genocide Suspect Arrested In Kenya

The Standard | Cyrus Ombati | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya, Croatia, Goran Hadzic, Genocide, Africa, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia Genocide, Ratko Mladic, International Criminal Court, Mombasa, World News

A Yugoslavia genocide suspect was yesterday arrested in a dramatic raid on his posh hotel in Mombasa in what police believe is a crucial operation....

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Former Serb President Cleared Of Kosovo War Crimes

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror ag...

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Searching for Bobby Fischer... and Bobby Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 02.17.2009 | Living

The parallels in the lives of my brother and Fischer are often as remarkable as they are sad, and I've tried here to tell part of the story:

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Obama Gives New American Hope

Shari Cohen | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Hometown Heroes, University of California, Election Day, First Time Voter Obama, Serbia, Obama, Yugoslavia, Immigration, New Voter, Barack Obama, American Citizen, Immigrant, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Belgrade, Obama Immigrants, Voting, Home News

Meet Mitra, a 31 year old first time voter - I met her last weekend, volunteering at my local Obama campaign office. We've been working together eve...

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Catholic Priest Officiates at Fully-Uniformed Nazi's Funeral

Julia Gorin | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Nazi, Terrorism, Croatia, Thaci, Balkans, Serbia, Catholic, George Bush, Yugoslavia, Kosova, Serbs, Bosnia, Cheney, Albania, Karadzic, Vatican, Politics News

Commander of the second-largest concentration camp complex of World War II -- Croatia's Jasenovac -- passed away last week and received a burial in hi...

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Iraq According To Its Sheikhs

David A. Andelman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Balkanization of Iraq, Kurdish Independence, Kurds, Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, Iraq, Sheiks, Politics News

Yugoslavia has come apart, creating (so far) seven new and relatively peaceful nations. I asked 11 Iraqi sheikhs and provincial governors, Why not do this in Iraq today?

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