LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Except in the eastern corners of Europe, the Balkans Wars of the 1990s are all but forgotten. An occasional headline awakens Western readers. A rare suspect of mass murder is ...
As Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian dictator nicknamed the "Butcher of the Balkans," has gone on trial in The Hague on 66 counts of war crimes, he has brought to the process the evil, ...
Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Bosnian law forbids the "glorification" of war criminals, but is rarely enforced, ...
The Balkans are a region where geography becomes destiny — fortress cities carved into cliffs, river valleys split between rival ethnic groups, and ancient lakes where civilizations have collided for ...
GENEVA, Jan. 30 (UNHCR) - Long-term stability in the Balkans is directly linked to the fate of an estimated one million people who remain uprooted as a result of the region's wars, High Commissioner ...