Kosovo

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12-15	July 1999 Notebook/Article War movie By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1998-; Kosovo; Kosovo (Serbia); 1993-; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Serbia and Montenegro PDF IMAGES
60-69	July 1999 Article At war with ourselves: In Kosovo, America confronts its own ideals By Michael Hirsh SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1998-; Intervention (International law); Kosovo; Kosovo (Serbia); 1993-; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Serbia and Montenegro PDF IMAGES
15-18	June 1999 Readings/Article The demolition of world order By Noam Chomsky SEE ALSO: Bombardment; International relations; Intervention (International law); Kosovo; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Serbia and Montenegro; United Nations PDF IMAGES
18-20	June 1999 Readings/Article Ethnic cleansing: A five-point plan By Hilmi Zogjani (Trans.) and Vojislav Seselj SEE ALSO: Albanians; Ethnic relations; Genocide; Kosovo; Kosovo (Serbia); Nationalism; Serbia and Montenegro PDF IMAGES

May 2004	Days into the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo that candidate George W. Bush observed, "Victory means exit strategy" : 17	Harper's Index Source: Houston Chronicle/NATO (Brussels)
Aug 2003	Ratio of Kosovo residents to Western peacekeepers there in 1999: 40:1	Harper's Index Source: United Nations (N.Y.C.)/NATO Integrated Data Service (Brussels)
Feb 2002	Ratio of bodies dug from Kosovo's mass graves since 1999 to people killed in the September 11 attacks: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: Office of the Prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague)/Harper's research
Oct 2000	Estimated voter registration rate among Kosovo Albanians last August: 83	Harper's Index Source: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Vienna)
Oct 2000	Estimated voter registration rate among Kosovo Serbs, whose leaders are calling for a boycott of this fall's elections there: 2	Harper's Index Source: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Vienna)
May 2000	Percentage increase in NATO troops required to seal Kosovo's border, according to a Pentagon official last March: 150	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Dec 1999	Estimated number of the 222,200 “armor-piercing bomblets” dropped on Kosovo last spring that remain unexploded: 11,110	Harper's Index Source: Center for Defense Information (Washington)
Dec 1999	Chance that a Serb has left Kosovo since NATO troops took it over last June: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Pristina, Kosovo)
Dec 1999	Chance that an ethnic Albanian left Kosovo while Serbian troops controlled the region last spring: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Pristina, Kosovo)
Jul 1999	Number of NATO bombs that have fallen on Bulgaria since the war in Kosovo began: 2	Harper's Index Source: NATO (Brussels)
Jul 1999	Ratio of people killed this year in the Kosovo war to those killed in the Ethiopian-Eritrean war: 1:10	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State/Harper's research
Jun 1999	Hours before NATO began bombing Kosovo in March that NPR aired its last e-mail from a 16-year-old Albanian girl there: 6	Harper's Index Source: National Public Radio (Washington)

February 22, 2008	Kosovo, in a move supported by the United States and strongly opposed by Russia, declared its independence from Serbia. NATO sealed Kosovo's northern border, and Serbians looted designer clothes, shoes, and chocolates, and set fire to the U.S. embassy in Belgrade.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: Reuters
March 4, 2007	Ethnic Albanian Ramush Haradinaj, a former bouncer who became prime minister of Kosovo, awaited trial for cleansing Serbs.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: Washington Post
November 25, 2005	It was revealed that the United States imprisoned terrorism suspects in Kosovo, at a prison described by the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner as “a smaller version of Guantánamo.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Forbes/AFX
March 24, 2004	Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
March 18, 2004	Ethnic violence broke out in Kosovo again as Albanians drove Serbs from their homes.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters

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