George
The war in Yugoslavia is so complicated that it’s sometimes hard to tell the players without a scorecard. Well, here it is–a list of the Balkans’ bad guys.
June 1999
1. Slobodan Milosevic. In 1987, Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic made a promise to a crowd ...
Category: Balkans
Let’s Not Forget Milosevic’s Partner in Crime
The New York Times
May 31, 1999
What about Tudjman?
This question comes to mind after the long overdue indictment of Slobodan Milosevic, the President of Yugoslavia and the prime villain behind the carnage that has engulfed the Balkans for the past decade. But President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia is hardly ...
Milosevic, the Perfect Dictator
The New York Times
May 3, 1999
If you are looking for an example of the genius of Slobodan Milosevic, the picture that appeared in newspapers over the weekend, showing him deep in prayer and hand in hand with Jesse Jackson, suffices quite well.
Milosevic is not known for participating in prayer sessions. ...
Back to Bosnia
The New Republic
A war correspondent returns.
October 12, 1998
A flashback: I heard the sniper’s shot before I saw Haris Bahtanovic fall to the ground. He was walking through a park-turned-shooting-gallery behind Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn. A few men rushed into the open and ...
Destruction of Cultural Property
Crimes of War
Definition of a War Crime
August 1998
(The following was published in “The Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know,” a handbook about war crimes.)
The mosque was on death row. An execution date had not been pronounced, of course, but the Ferhad Pasha mosque was living on borrowed ...
Willful Killing
Crimes of War
Definition of a War Crime
August 1998
(The following was published in “The Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know,” a handbook about war crimes.)
Slobodan was being a gracious host. Whenever we entered an exposed stretch of territory, he would stop, listen like a terrier ...
It’s Risky to Talk Tough on Kosovo
The New York Times
March 10, 1998
The Clinton Administration does not hesitate to express its moral outrage when a crisis unfolds in a place like Kosovo, a province of Serbia where 90 percent of the residents are ethnic Albanians.
“We are not going to stand by and watch the Serbian authorities ...
The Fevers of Nationalism
Los Angeles Times
The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience. By Michael Ignatieff
March 1, 1998
By Michael Ignatieff
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
210 pp. $24.95
Unwinnable Wars: American Power and Ethnic Conflict.
By David Callahan
Hill & Wang
240 pp. $23
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Love and Fury in the Balkans
The Washington Post
Montenegro. By Starling Lawrence
August 20, 1997
By Starling Lawrence
Farrar Straus Giroux. 306 pp. $23
Reviewed by Peter Maass
There is a passage in Rebecca West’s classic book about the Balkans, “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,” in which she wrote of being waked in a ...
Righteous Wrath
The New York Times
July 14, 1997
The last time I saw Simo Drljaca, he gave me a friendly pat on the back as I said goodbye. We had spent the better part of a day together, ending it with a beer and a toast to peace. Mr. Drljaca was a warlord in Prijedor, and he gave me a tour of his prison ...