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General Hailed as Croatian Hero Convicted of War Crimes
By not in system - AOL NewsTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A commander hailed by Croats as a hero of the Balkan conflict was convicted of war crimes by a U.N. court Friday and sentenced to 24 years in prison for a campaign of shelling, shootings and expulsions aimed at driving Serbs out of a Croatian border region in 1995. The conviction of Gen. Ante Gotovina was a blow to the Croatian view of its wartime generals as national heroes who reclaimed Croatian land from a more powerful Serb force. Michel Porro, Getty Images Ante Gotovina appears at the War Crimes Tribunal in December 2005 in The Hague, Netherlands. ...
NATO Strikes on Libya an Echo of Serbia Conflict
By not in system - AOL NewsBELGRADE, Serbia -- NATO war planes hit tanks with deadly precision, with the aim of degrading a despot's army and leveling the playing field for a ragtag rebel force. In many ways, the air strikes on Libya mirror the Western alliance's Serbia campaign 12 years ago. Both conflicts targeted easily identifiable villains - Moammar Gadhafi today, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic back then. On both occasions, NATO scrambled its war planes after both leaders ignored international warnings to cease bloody crackdowns against opponents - Kosovo Albanians then, Libyan citizens now. The parallels ...
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China's New Stealth Jet May Use Technology From Downed US Plane
By not in system - AOL NewsBRUSSELS -- Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority - and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself. Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999. Nighthawks were the world's first stealth fighters, planes that were very hard for radar to detect. But on March 27, 1999, during NATO's ...
Bosnian Rape Victims Protest Angelina Jolie Movie
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(Nov. 30) -- Bosnian rape victims from the 1990s want Angelina Jolie stripped of her title as a "goodwill ambassador" for the United Nations because of rumors that a new film she's directing tells the story of a Muslim woman who falls in love with her Serbian rapist. A group called Women Victims of War, which represents victims of sexual violence in the Balkans, sent a letter Monday to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a U.N. refugee agency Jolie has traveled with on aid missions to Kosovo, Pakistan, Darfur and several other hot spots. The association ...
95-Year-Old NYC Man Gets Medal for WWII Rescue
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NEW YORK (Oct. 17) - The U.S. government has recognized the World War II architect of a mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber fliers shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia - the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war. George Vujnovich, a 95-year-old New Yorker, is credited with leading the so-called Halyard Mission in what was then Yugoslavia. On Sunday, he was awarded the U.S. Bronze Star Medal, presented by Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., at Manhattan's St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral. Vujnovich received a standing ovation from a crowd of several hundred church ...
Beleaguered Kosovo Cheers Hillary Clinton
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PRISTINA, Kosovo (Oct. 13) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was welcomed today in Kosovo with a rapturous greeting very different from the cooler response she received in ethnically divided Bosnia and largely anti-American Serbia, the two other stops on her Balkan tour. Thousands of cheering Kosovo Albanians, many of them waving American flags, met her in the capital, Pristina, where she stopped to eye the 12-foot-tall bronze statue of her husband on Bill Clinton Boulevard. "I'm so glad to be back after 10 years; it's wonderful," Clinton said in front of the statue. The ...
Clinton Urges Reform in Ethnically Divided Bosnia
By not in system - AOL NewsSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Oct. 12) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday challenged all sides in ethnically divided Bosnia to embrace political reform needed for European Union and NATO membership. Speaking in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Clinton told university students they should push their leaders to embrace a truly multiethnic society and pledged continued U.S. support toward that goal. Earlier, Clinton urged the country's leadership to make E.U. membership a priority and make the necessary constitutional reforms. "These reforms are needed for their own ...
10 Years On, Milosevic Still Haunts Balkans
By Joost van Egmond - AOL News
BELGRADE, Serbia (Oct. 4) -- As Serbia marks the 10th anniversary of the overthrow of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic and the voters of neighboring Bosnia cast their ballots along ethnic divisions he exploited and deepened, neither country has fully come to terms with his murderous legacy. Pedja Mitic, AP The legacy of Slobodan Milosevic, seen here in 1997, was felt in Sunday's election in Bosnia, where the presidency is shared by three people. Milosevic, president of Serbia and later the rump of Yugoslavia during the '90s, was one of the main architects of the wars that tore apart the ...
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