Word: slivovitz
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...still be the place to be seen in northern Mitrovica, but the riverside cafe no longer oozes a sense of imminent danger. It was tense, this past winter, when Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, and La Dolce Vita's regulars gathered in a tense silence, sipping slivovitz plum brandy, smoking, and waiting for the news from Belgrade. As the Serb capital was gripped by violent protests that included an attempt to torch the U.S. embassy, life became in Mitrovica became dangerous for Serbian and foreign journalists covering local demonstrations: Several had their cameras smashed; some were beaten. A Serb reporter...
...over corpses, as Serb militia members led away helpless civilians to what would be their mass grave. A year later, as part of a similar land grab in eastern Bosnia, the same men were happily torching Muslim homes and murdering their owners. The fighters were drunk with bloodlust and slivovitz, but they were also led by the invisible hand of Milosevic's secret police, who organized, armed and supplied them. It was the link between Milosevic and these crimes that my testimony was intended to help prove...
Serbian snipers at work in the hills above Sarajevo a few years ago kept themselves dosed with slivovitz around the clock (as extra insurance against inhibitions of conscience) and potted away at women and children darting through the city under their cross hairs. Collateral damage is supposed to mean a mistake, but this killing was deliberate, focused and recreational. War is a great and terrible permission. A spirit of satanic play shoots a jolt of lethal impulse through the trigger finger. This is absolute power, on a person-to-person basis. It tends to corrupt absolutely. Degenerate violence takes...
Nazif Beganovic, 59, a Muslim tinsmith from the ethnically mixed Banja Luka neighborhood of Budzjak, had lived for years in friendship with the Serb next door: "Before the war we'd drink brandy and slivovitz every night. After fighting started, he saw that we were lost, and he thought of himself as a | force with power over us. I said the war was not my fault. I had no sons fighting against the Serbs. But he screamed 'Be silent, Balija ((a pejorative term for Muslims))! I won't waste bullets shooting you. I'll burn you and blow up your...
...that time, almost 25 minutes had passed -- and the Serb had died in a vehicle finally sent by his command. Angered by the loss and fueled by slivovitz, the plum brandy that is ubiquitous here, the remaining Serbs turned on the Canadians. "There were about four guys," said Petrokilis. "They ordered two of our guys out of the checkpoint and the other nine out of the bunker. Everyone was taken outside in a group. None of our guys knew what the - Serbs were saying, but their gestures were aggressive and angry. They fired to the left and to the right...