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Ethnic Cleansing In Former Yugoslavia The Peacenet's balkans Pages list resources and information on killings, rapes, separations, and forced expulsions in the former Yugoslavia. http://www.igc.apc.org/balkans/ethnicl.html
Extractions: More than two hundred thousands civilians have been killed in Bosnia and Croatia since the beginning of the war. Tens of thousands of women were raped , some of them more than a hundred times, while their sons and husbands were beaten and tortured in concentration camps like Omarska and Manjaca. Millions lost their homes due to a process called "ethnic cleansing." Refugees lost their homes and belongings and it is difficult for their relatives and loved ones to locate them now. They also rarely have access to computers with modems. Sometimes they live in abandoned railroad wagons, like in Cakovec , Croatia. Therefore there are various services which would convert your e-mail messages to printed or voice mail, try to find your friends and deliver the message. You can try them: People Finder Service for Bosnia : You can add a new person to the database, or browse the database of missing persons and maybe find somebody you're looking for. People Finder Service for Kosovo The Refugee Databank Kosovo Refugee Registry in Macedonia People Finder Service list Family News Network (ICRC) BBC MP pages International Committee of Red Cross database ... list of Tracing Offices and ICRC home page, Geneva
Information Paper, Depleted Uranium In The Balkans Summarizes the findings of environmental and medical studies designed to answer questions about DU contamination in BosniaHerzegovina and Kosovo. http://www.deploymentlink.osd.mil/du_balkans/index.html
Extractions: Information Paper Depleted Uranium Environmental and Medical Surveillance in the Balkans Information Papers are reports of what we know today about issues potentially impacting the health of deployed military personnel. This particular information paper on depleted uranium environmental and medical surveillance in the Balkans is not an investigative report, but is a summary of reports from countries and international organizations performing environmental assessments in the Balkans and medical surveillance on Balkan veterans. Future updates of this paper will include newly reported results. We hope you will read this and contact us with any information that would help us better understand the impact of depleted uranium on the Balkans environment and the health of deployed and indigenous personnel. If you have any additional information, please call: Dr. J. Jarrett Clinton
Media Advisory Fischer teaches East European and Balkan history, with most of his researchfocusing on Albania. He has traveled to the region several times in the past two http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/240.html
Extractions: Media Relations Home Media Relations Resources Expert Sources Faculty Honors News Tips News Release Archives ... Student Honors Headlines in Business Education General News Information Technology ... Social Science Other Resources Alumni Athletics Events Calendar More IU News Sources ... IU President Media Advisory NOTE: In response to the beginning of the historic war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, we are providing you with Indiana University faculty who are available to answer questions and offer insights on Milosevic, the Balkan region and its politics. Sources may be contacted directly. If you need further assistance, contact the IU Office of Communications and Marketing at 812-855-3911. Charles Jelavich
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Around 300 tonnes of depleted uranium weapons were used in the Gulf War By Douglas Herbert, CNN.com Europe writer LONDON, England (CNN) It could be many years before scientists are able to say for sure whether shells tipped with depleted uranium really are to blame for so-called "Balkans syndrome." What they do know is that NATO countries have so far reported 16 deaths and 57 illnesses among former Balkans military personnel with the weapons blamed by some for cases of leukaemia and other illnesses. Latency periods for leukaemia average about five years, and other forms of cancer can gestate for 10 years or longer. And some experts wonder how it is possible to separate out exposure to depleted uranium weapons from exposure to other toxic chemicals released in modern warfare.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Powell said U.S. troops will continue as peacekeepers in the Balkans PARIS, France The U.S. has pledged to support Macedonia and to continue to help maintain stability in the Balkans. Secretary of State Colin Powell made the reassurance during a visit to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on Thursday where he held talks with President Boris Trajkovski. Earlier in the day, Powell met other members of the Balkan Contact Group in Paris to discuss unrest threatening the region. Powell's visit to the Balkans follows the recent armed conflict between Macedonian government troops and rebels demanding more rights for the country's ethnic Albanian minority. "You can be sure of the American support of your efforts, political support, economic support and military support," Powell told Trajkovski in a strong endorsement of Macedonian unity. IN-DEPTH Macedonia: Hurdles to peace
Extractions: Web posted at: 5:33 a.m. EDT (0533 GMT) In this story: AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy (CNN) NATO forces began air exercises over the southern Balkans on Monday in a show of force aimed at persuading Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to ease his tough policies in Kosovo province Soon after the drill began, Interfax news agency reported that Russia was recalling its top NATO military envoy in protest. Moscow has strongly opposed any direct intervention in Yugoslavia and has been widely critical of NATO's post-Cold War role. A L S O :
CNN Balkan Conflict: History CNN Balkan Conflict News. history. Roots of the Balkan troubles a history ofethnic skirmishes. More than four years of war have turned oncebeautiful http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/Bosnia/history/
Extractions: a history of ethnic skirmishes More than four years of war have turned once-beautiful Yugoslavia into a living nightmare, and into one of the bloodiest battlefields in Europe's recent history. We see the images refugees bearing children and suitcases, war-wearied elderly women, crying soldiers. But many of us don't understand exactly how the turmoil began. Here's a brief look. The rivalries between Serb, Croat and Muslim communities in Yugoslavia date back centuries. Created in the aftermath of World War I, the country was first known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The name Yugoslavia was adopted in 1929. During World War II, Croats joined the Nazis in exterminating Serbs and others. The Serbs took up arms and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed on both sides. Josip Broz Tito, a partisan leader, led the resistance against the Nazis, ultimately driving them from Yugoslavia. Following the war, Tito was elected to lead the newly created Yugoslav Federation. Tito ruled with an iron fist, keeping ethnic rivalries in check. Despite such problems as astronomical inflation, the nation held together for a decade after Tito's death in 1980. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic movements swept across much of Eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia. With the election of non-communist governments in four of Yugoslavia's six republics, the Federation began to crumble and ethnic divisions resurfaced.
Extractions: From staff and wire reports SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Sarajevo on Friday morning for a summit on stability in the Balkans. Clinton flew into the heavily guarded Bosnian capital from the Aviano military base in Italy on board a C-17 air cargo plane. Early Friday, streets of the Bosnian capital were deserted, as the city awaited some 40 world leaders scheduled to attend the summit.
Balkan Politics In The Cold War Years A lecture discussing the impact of the Cold War and Communist rule on the Balkan nations. Critiques traditional historical views of the Cold War's impact on the domestic politics of communist rule in the balkans. http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect22.htm
Extractions: Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 22: Balkan politics in the Cold War years Previous lecture Complete list of lectures Next lecture Lecture 21 criticized conventional, stereotypical views of the origin of the Cold War on two grounds. First: that those views substitute conclusions for questions, then tend to overlook important facts that don't support those conclusions. Second: that those views trivialize or ignore Balkan historical events by subordinating them to studies of decisions made in Moscow and Washington. One can make a similar critique of conventional histories of the Cold War era as a whole. It is not that these books say something incorrect about the Balkans, but rather that they say nothing at all. Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary vanish into the Russian maw in 1945 or perhaps 1948 never to be seen again (except in the pages of some very recent books, which see them reemerge in 1989 apparently untouched). Colorful Bulgarians occasionally pass across the stage on their way to assassinate the Pope or murder some dissidents using poisoned umbrellas. For the rest, silence. Whatever their value as histories of the Cold War of the Super-Powers, such books obviously are useless as histories of the Balkans during the last fifty years: they ignore too much. Despite "free world" concerns about "captive nations," much of Western scholarship exhibits a massive indifference to the lives of the inhabitants of the Balkans. By placing full blame for the Cold War on the Russians, Western writers also condescend to Balkan leaders, absolving them from both responsibility and authority for events from 1945 to the present. These views have been blind as well to profound variations in Balkan political and economic life, and have created inaccurate impressions of bland uniformity. We snicker at the image of Woodrow Wilson fumbling to find Romania on a map in 1918, but it should come as no surprise that too many leaders today are still clueless about the Balkans and how to solve problems there.
Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Protest broke out over the government's handling of a cease-fire with ethnic Albanian rebels LUXEMBOURG Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski remains in control in the country after a night of tensions in the capital Skopje, the European Union said on Tuesday. "We have received assurances that the president and government are in full control of the military and the police," Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said on behalf of the 15-nation bloc. Sweden holds the EU's rotating presidency. "An address to the people is planned later today by Trajkovski and the government," she added. An EU-led bid to bring in a cease-fire with ethnic Albanian rebels sparked fierce protests in the capital Skopje and heavy fighting elsewhere. ALSO Macedonian president flees rioters "Developments today show how serious the situation is but it is still obvious there is no military solution... We hope everybody will realise the only way forward is to refrain from violence and to have legitimate dialogue through the political representatives," Lindh said. UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw has called off a trip to Macedonia after the protests in Skopje. Straw had been due to visit the crisis-hit country this week.
The Voice Of The Turtle A Brief history of Kosovo An article for The Voice of the Turtle by , June 1999 . we get a great sense of the general dynamics of Balkan history across http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=135
Extractions: In the beginning there were L.S. Stavrianos and William H. McNeill. To teach world history in the 1960s or 1970's was to teach Stavrianos or McNeill. It was right that American world history teaching was initiated by two Canadians who specialized in Balkan history. Canada provided the necessary perspective. The Balkans offered a world in miniature, numerous languages to master, and the need to produce a narrative that transcended national needs. While the fathers of world history were never close, their similar paths were announced to each other by twists of coincidence. Both served with the OSS during the Greek Civil War, McNeill sending dispatches from the field in Greece and Stavrianos reading them in Washington. The same war from different sides, Stavrianos mused years later. After publishing in Greek and Balkan history, both recognized the need to create models to teach world history. Both applied to the Carnegie Foundation and both learned of the others application when they received each other's acceptance letter in misaddressed envelopes. Both were materialists, Stavrianos out of Marx and a line of evolutionary anthropology that stretched back to Lewis Henry Morgan; McNeill a student of technology, demography, and ecology. Each concentrated on their own kind of social history. McNeill charted the impact of the tools of war, pathogens, and the interaction of steppe and sown; Stavrianos studied political power and social class. Neither did much initially with Africa, or women, or culture, though both used illustrations effectively. Stavrianos had an eye for the perfect quote, primary sources that made students stand up and take notice. Perhaps they called on world history to do different things. Both wanted it to explain, but Stavrianos also wanted to change the world.
Extractions: Web posted at: 11:16 a.m. EDT (1516 GMT) COLOGNE, Germany (CNN) Leaders of the world's economic powers concluded their summit Sunday with a communique pledging "strong action" to stabilize Yugoslavia's war-torn Kosovo province. The United States had wanted to limit aid to Kosovo excluding the rest of Yugoslavia as long as Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic remained in power. But the communique requires consensus from the members of the Group of Eight, and Russia blocked the exclusionary language.
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Nationalism And Language (by Bozidar Jaksic) An essay by Bozidar Jaksic on linguistic identity and policy in the balkans. http://users.volja.net/romag/pub/Nationalism-and-Language.html
Extractions: Contrary to many European countries where language was the basis for constituting modern nations as political communities, in the part of the Balkans inhabited by intermingled Serbs, Croats and Muslim Bosniaks, membership in different religions and confessions was the basis for national division. Moreover, these nations were constituted as ethnic rather than political communities. In order to understand the recent Balkan experience of national, state, linguistic and other divisions, it is extremely important to answer the question why neither in the first (kingdom of) Yugoslavia nor in the second (socialist) Yugoslavia did the nations come to be constituted as political communities, but instead remained ethnic in character. Thus Serbo-Croatian in all its varieties, as the shared language of some Yugoslav peoples, has joined "dead" languages, such as ancient Greek, Latin, or ancient Slavic. The citizens of the newly-created ex-Yugoslav states have been wonder-struck: they speak a "dead" language, and have become polyglots. They can communicate simply and easily in four languages: Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
The Balkans Pages Information and commentary on war and human rights concerns in the former Yugoslavia. http://balkansnet.org/
MA Programs Hr. Matanov who has researched the field of mediaeval Balkan history and The MA programme will put political events of recent Balkan history in the http://www.clio.uni-sofia.bg/EN/ma-en.html
Extractions: War Crimes Tribunal Watch In the beginnings of the ICTY there were only few war criminal at the trial - mostly low level executioners like Dusan Tadic , Tihomir Blaskic or Drazen Erdemovic. Since then prosecutor Carla Del Ponte managed to bring big fish in, however, including the top dog Slobodan Milosevic. Karadzic and Mladic are still at large, though. Cases are monitored and updated by the Court TV . Look for other suspects of war crimes and ethnic cleansing in documents from Helsinki Human Rights Watch, International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, United Nations Special Committees for War Crimes in former Yugoslavia, and other international organizations and sources: If you want to receive regular updates on the developments of the cases against war criminals from Yugoslavia at the Tribunal in The Hague , click here Watch trial against Slobodan Milosevic LIVE ! Archives of the entire trial against Slobodan Milosevic are available via Human Rights Project at the Bard College. REWARDS are offered by a Congressional amendement to the International terrorism act for any information that may lead to arrest and conviction of persons that International War Crimes Tribunal sees connected to the war crimes in former Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, the U.S. government did not yet announce the awards. International Justice Watch - archive : JUSTWATCH-L list is what formerly was TWATCH-L , while the TWATCH-L fell briefly as yet another victim in the cyber-war for Greater Serbia. TWATCH-L is now again "correctly biased" and to join write to the
