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A bi-weekly audio series and podcast service, hosted by Committee on Conscience Project Director Bridget Conley-Zilkic, that brings you the voices of human rights defenders, experts, advocates, and government officials. Vital voices addressing one of humanity's most vital issues. The opinions expressed in these interviews do not necessarily represent those of the Museum.
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12/20/07
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As the first anniversary of the death of Slobodan Milosevic approaches, a protester in Serbia wanted to be double sure that the deceased war criminal stays dead: Miroslav Milosevic, a photographer not related to the late president, jumped a fence in his hometown of Pozarevac to thrust a hawthorn pole into the tomb where [Slobodan Milosevic] was buried a year ago, the MTSMondo.com website said. The action by the former member of Otpor, the student movement that for years protested against Milosevic, was a medieval ritual used in eastern Serbia to kill off vampires or expel evil spirits.
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2/17/07
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NATO launched an air war against Serbia in 1999 to stop violent persecution -- perhaps even genocide -- of ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. The result was a UN protectorate. But the province's "final status" remained up in the air. Serbia reluctantly accepted UN administration, while the Kosovar Albanians demanded independence. Earlier this month, UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, presented his recommendation for resolving the conundrum. In not so many words, it described an independent Kosovo. And nobody was happy. Kosovar Albanians protested because independence was not explicit; two demonstrators were killed by rubber bullets in Pristina, Kosovo's capital. Meanwhile, the Serbian parliament overwhelmingly rejected Ahtisaari's plan. Approval of the plan rests with the UN Security Council, where Russia appears opposed, both because of its historical connections to Serbia and because of its concern about recognizing a regional claim to independence. What if the Security Council is paralyzed by a Russian veto? The Economist offers this prediction: [F]ar from saving Kosovo for Serbia, it risks tipping the region back into chaos. Kosovo will declare independence anyway, and many countries (including America and Britain) will recognise it. There will be no extra protection for Serbs, and no follow-on mission to the UN. If so, the two Albanians who died on February 10th may be only the first victims of a new round of violence.
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8/03/06
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