What language will we be speaking after the bombs stop falling?
What language will we be speaking after the bombs stop falling?
Author(s): Nenad DimitrijevićSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fabrika knjiga
Keywords: Yugoslavia; NATO bombings; Milošević regime; Albanians;
Summary/Abstract: Yugoslavia today is a place of suffering. The country has become a stage on which two contestants are battling for moral victory. The stage is miserable and the contestants, the Western military alliance and the Milosevic regime, look like third-rate amateurs. But the price of winning the prize on offer is extremely high, the killing of innocents, the expulsion of other innocents and the destruction of the country. Milosevic happily uses the most ruthless methods against Albanian civilians in Kosovo, invoking our moral right to defend the country from aggression. NATO claims the same right from the other side of the table, the moral duty to protect the innocent Albanian population of Yugoslavia. [...]
Journal: Reč
- Issue Year: 1999
- Issue No: 55.1
- Page Range: 19-23
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English