Schlagwort: Serbia

  • Niall Mulholland: Kosovo rising

    [Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 4-5] The Serbian army onslaught in the area of Srbica [Skenderaj], central Kosovo [Kosova], left over 80 Kosovo Albanians dead and villages in ruins. Civilians, including young children, were mercilessly shot down and whole so-called ‘terrorist’ families executed. Up to 45,000 Serbian troops now occupy Kosovo, with armoured…

  • Kevin Simpson: The Balkans at war

    [Militant International Review, No. 49, Autumn 1992, p. 12-19] Why has civil war exploded into life in a region where national and ethnic tensions had apparently been reduced for over forty years? Kevin Simpson examines the Balkan crisis. Dubrovnik, Split, Sarajevo … names that before 1989 were only mentioned in the media as picturesque resorts,…

  • Peter Taaffe: Bosnia’s Killing Fields

    (Militant International Review, No. 51, May-June 1993, 2-7) Should the labour movement back military intervention? Or sanctions against Serbia? Peter Taaffe examines the Bosnian nightmare. The Bosnian crisis is now at a turning point. The harrowing accounts of mutilated children in Srebrenica, the photographs of injured soldiers like scenes from the first world war, combined…