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The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia
ARTnews reports on artworks looted from Holocaust victims by the Nazis. Many of the pieces ended up in Yugoslavia, after a "Yugoslav art thief forger and probable spy Ante Topic Mimara ... tricked American art restitution officers into turning over 166 artworks to him in 1949 by falsely claiming that the Nazis had stolen them from Yugoslavia." The duped Americans later searched for the artworks, never found them and covered up the incident, the story reveals. ARTnews has located some the pieces in museums in Serbia and Croatia. The investigation includes photographs of the artworks.
Tags: Nazis; artworks; Soviet Union; National Gallery of Art; Milosevic regime; World War II; Belgrade; Zagreb; paintings
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The Lawless Frontier
Kaplan describes the violent, chaotic climate of the tribal lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Kaplan calls the Pakistan a Yugoslavia in the making, but with nuclear weapons. Kaplan says that Pakistan is experiencing a total institutional meltdown. "...As was true of Yugoslavia, it is the bewildering complexity of ethnic and religious divisions that makes Pakistan so fragile."
Tags: Pakistan; Afghanistan; violence; chaos; culture; society; ethnic; religion; nuclear weapons
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A Killing Field
This report provides graphic evidence of a massacre of ethnic Albanians in the Kosovar town of Izbica at the hands of the Serbs during the height of the NATO bombing campaign.
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT Kosovo; Yugoslavia; war; KLA; State Department; International Criminal Tribunal; Slobodan Milosevic; war crimes
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Vets rip plan for uranium bullets, Radioactive ammo health study draws fire from expert, US firing radio active ammo, Uranium ammo cleared in study, Panel rejects GI's uranium sickness claim
The San Francisco Examiner investigated the use of depleted uranium (DU) in the US military's weapons arsenal. "Depleted uranium, twice as dense as lead, is prized for its ability to slice through heavily armored equipment such as tanks. But it is made from highly toxic material, giving rise to the fear that veterans exposed to DU particles may suffer from its effects."
Tags: Pentagon NATO Yugoslavia Gulf War Syndrome nuclear weapons
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The Kosovo Connection
The Montreal Gazette investigates the criminal connections of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the Albanian rebel group defended and entrenched in power by NATO's campaign in Yugoslavia. The report exposes the KLA's links to heroin and prostitution rings that have flourished throughout Europe and North America largely through its help and contends that the group's profit from crime has continued since the war.
Tags: Italian Mafia; drug-smuggling; tycoons; United Nations; FBI; Switzerland; Germany; FOI; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; underworld
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"A Family's Terrifying Odyssey," "Eyewitness to Terror," "The Fire This Time," "The Missing Men of Djakovica"
This series of stories, reported by Newsweek's Berlin bureau chief over a six-month period from Kosovo, attempts to put a human face on the tragic events unfolding in the region, both during and after NATO involvement.
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Stepping Back from the Nuclear Cliff
The Progressive reports that "Contrary to widespread public opinion, the danger of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia has not receded. During the NATO-Yugoslavia war, the tension between the two powers rose to some of the highest levels since the Cuban missile crisis.... We are witnessing severe setbacks for arms control and disarmament. The gains of the hopeful first years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when U.S. and Russian leaders could act in concert, are being rapidly eroded."
Tags: Russia; arms race; NATO; Boris Yeltsin; cold war
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The Mess NATO Left Behind
The Progressive reports how "Unexploded cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells litter Yugoslavia's landscape... Unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs are just one of the many hazards left behind by NATO's two-month air war against Yugoslavia. Signing a peace agreement may have ended the fighting, but cleaning up the dangerous debris could take years."
Tags: NATO; Yugoslavia; war; weapons
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Arkan: Wanted and the hitman
CNN looks at the rise of Arkan from international thief, Yugoslav government hitman and formenter of nationalism to a paramilitary leader responsible for carrying out a madness of murder, torture, expulsion and looting in many of the ethnic cleansing campaigns in the war that wrecked Yugoslavia.
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The Looting of Yugoslavia
With a fragile peace in place, most Americans would undoubtedly like to forget the eight years of war, atrocities and suffering that have been visited upon the Balkans. But the man most responsible for this modern tragedy, Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, remain in power, unchastened by the West and emboldened by his own survival. In "The Looting of Yugoslavia," U.S. News & World Report reveals how Milosevic has secretly turned his sights on his own country, raiding its banks and businesses to sustain his despotic rule and enrich his family and courtiers. The story details how more than a dozen of Milosevic's top ministers not only run the government, but also control the nation's largest, state-owned companies, funneling money form these businesses into their own private firms and their own pockets.
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