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Slobodan Milosevic was not the only culprit in the bloody breakdown of multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, but he can be assigned the bulk of responsibility. He had a unique talent for bringing out the worst in everything and everybody he touched. He brought out the worst in Serbs, and provoked retaliatory responses from the Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians. A political opportunist, he picked up ideologies such as nationalism, socialism, and even democracy itself, and perverted them to suit his own needs, discarding them when they no longer served his purposes. He burned bridges between nations and peoples that took centuries...
...Serbs still refuse to deal with the psychological and political consequences of the atrocities committed by Serbian Forces during the Balkan conflicts, but so do Croats, Bosnians and Kosovars when it comes to their own war crimes. It is always really someone else?s fault; it is some other ethnic group that has not properly and sufficiently faced up to its guilt. The distorted, extremely one-sided view on recent past prevails throughout the former Yugoslavia. Detoxification will be long and painful because no one wants to face...
...There is, however, a brighter side. The countries of the former Yugoslavia now all have normal, though tense, relations. They are also all taking steps, big and small, towards becoming members of the European Union. And while ethnic animosities are still high, national courts in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have begun put their own war criminals on trial; these courts will continue to work long after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shuts down its proceedings in The Hague, where Milosevic died under detention and undergoing trial. His death will not affect this slow, difficult journey towards...
...four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn...
...tribal language to audience member echoes. “For us, we probably learned as much about different nations and cultures as anyone who walked into our event today,” said NAHC President Leah R. Lussier ’07. As one of the oldest student ethnic groups on campus, NAHC is the only Native American undergraduate club at the College. “We hope to make it an annual event,” said Scott, “because our purpose is to educate the Harvard community about the diversity of [Native American] culture...