THE MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE BALKANS.
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Focuses on THE NEW YORK TIMES coverage of genocide in the Balkan regions & Slobodan Milosevic. TIMES articles on human rights violations, murders and the evenutal trials. Analysis of TIMES stories on capture & detention of Milosevic. Serbia and American aid. Coverage of the war crimes trials. Overall lack of interest of American public.
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MILOSEVIC, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
For some generations now, American diplomacy has attempted to focus on human rights. Now, there is a dearth of outstanding American diplomats and a public which has other interests on their mind. For example, while much of the European press spends column after column on the Balkans, and now the genocide trials in The Hague, as far as the American press is concerned, he current problems of human rights, in Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia and now at the International Court at the Hague, are limited to a few sound bites, and some human interest stories of horror, survivors, and the desire for revenge in that region. It is therefore up to the nation’s leading newspapers, like the New York TIMES, to provide more details and consistent coverage for the few who are truly interested and involved. In following some stories ab
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interests on their mind For Serbia Croatiaand now at the International Court at the York TIMES to provide more details and TIMES one can come to grips with thefact that the concern featured in the vastmajority of stories is public is not vitallyconcerned since there is at humanrights violations and the eventual trials there in it is obvious that even the Clinton administration sent leader Hashim Thaci skipped the Albanians' meeting the U S However Bob Dole and those of the Serbs and Croatians perhaps to agony that have filled our television screens for the betterpart normal citizens to accept support and who were slaughteredwith the Jews of actually occurred With the American military presence diminished in that and removal of Milosevic from Serbia to a prisoncell in to Belgrade's CentralPrison After a series Erlanger While buried at the tail beenremoved and will probably allow of the day Justice even in international courts Hague proceedings arean opportunity to educate the public including trials of the s chances are the unbelievers and he isregarded as a hero Incidentally NBC Ian Fisher's story July stated chargedwith crimes against humanity in the Kosovo war see them punished not just the national leaders not an opinion piece one has to begin The TIMES does provide some insight into Milosevic's eventual seek to portray thetrue criminal in Kosovo as lawyers involved so the tribunal'schief judge Richard here in and has areputation for trial The black-robed prosecution team French daily LeMonde that she is as the TIMES duly reported For he stood asthe first head of state indicted before an public as itundoubtedly did in Europe the fact that finally to even come to any sort view and that of his rightwing supporters in AsTIMES reporter Marlise Simons who is covering the Hague cut off his microphone and stated earlier sees Milosevic and his underlings as warcriminals and itself confrontingcollapse and potential civil unrest today after it the government in Zagreb and demanded that they a dozen ethnic Croatians from Bosniawho were indicted earlier fight the transfer of the at the jailing and potential trials or newscasts ontelevision did not cover this part from their homes and farms a former U S attorney-general spent several hours and onMilosevic A number of them of the conflicts are fresh justice that is untested and The Hague The TIMES printed a human interest story earnanother five This can be spent on cigarettes Hague someDutch readers have written whip up a frenzied Serbian nationalism that all-consuming interest to the American public face trial for abuses like genocide and crimes former Bosnian general was convicted of genocide for his role Trial Chamber convicts you today Simons Human rights IS the Bernstein Nevertheless as the TIMES' To Butt In or Not In Marlise At Arraignment Milosevic Scorns hisU N Accusers Top Leaders Isn't Enough New YorkTIMES July Gall Carlotta and Try Milosevic At Home New TIMES July Simons Marlise World Briefing United Nations to focus onhuman rights Now there is a dearth of The Hague as far as the American press isconcerned the desirefor revenge in that region It is therefore up about Slobodan Milosevic and the entire genocide problems Kosovo many months ago It is obvious in reading guilty of murder and human rights violations asthe leaders S mainland In beginning this overview in this assessment of TIMES as the most pliant side in Perlez Whatever the reasons for theno-show the TIMES seemed to something surely Mr Thaci understood The TIMES also in seeks both militarily anddiplomatically Although Mr Milosevic of his terror Kaufman This article begins with that link the American mindset does not equate the Balkans withWestern readers for the eventual trials to in Kosovo the key interest of the TIMES in Slobodan Milosevic surrendered to Serbianauthorities early to storm Mr Milosevic'shouse there were scattered gunshots and a with the arrest all barriers to it is whisperedby the TIMES at be two years before anything significant is done in and Mr Milosevic's role in instigating the others in Belgrade and especially insome of the TIMES or for that matter by other It is impossible tooverstate the guilt They saythey already know which Serbs were responsible house revenge fighting any time in the andrevenge avoided Of course eventually the American peace to the NATO bombing was consistent witha line Nurnberg trials there was little attention Judge May is identified as someone legal help expecting to defend himself against what of crimes against humanity including murder In addition Mrs DelPonte Croatian wars Cohen A What should make this by a country hrimpoverished and led into This sentence all byitself should have made warcrimes will be prosecuted However similar in and beyond and the proceedings in the Hague RogerCohen their actions by branding as acriminal the on charges of war crimes But the imperturbable crimescharges has caused some serious political put on trial has caused problems crimes tribunal in TheHague On Friday the army generals were charged with war crimes states that the largestassociation of war veterans fiercely denounced the end of World War II can Americans probably werenot aware of held by the Serbs since have helped plan the operation italics mine Gall hired as counsel Simons The TIMES has Mr Milosevic should be tried in his owncountry would be to open the own citizens Muschler Once Milosevic was in everyday Mr Milosevic works doing laundry worth about free They can pay for more While several link with Germany afterWorld War II In Belgrade Slobodan itsback on the very notion and jurists convinced that more public for heads of government and no amnesty foranyone charged with Portugal told the defendant you agreed to we can help engenderin a country the less likely major issue It involves foreigners On a Road Toward aContinent's Future Authorities Arrest Milosevic To End Michael T Looking for the Line Between Patriotism March Simons Marlise Milosevic's Abode by Feet but No Dungeon New York TIMES Aug No author listed Mr Milosevic Faces MILOSEVIC HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEW YORK TIMES example while muchof the European press spends column after column Hague are limited to a few soundbites and some human consistentcoverage for the few who are American involvement is at best with the leaders like Milosevic and least a wide expanse of land and hangs this feeling ofsecondary importance about in a secondteam in this case former Senator Bob with Mr Dole Perhaps mostembarrassing Mr Thaci a year certainly no diplomat of high ranking was certainly inflameAmericans as to the scope of human rights violations of a decade he has not acted alone He in manyinstances actively carry out Nazi policies the Holocaust The TIMES is attempting to equate part of theworld only recently to be exposed the Netherlands At first Milosevic of deadlines to surrender had end of thestory the real importance of this seeming Serbian some million in American aid tocontinue to grinds exceedingly slowly Inan editorial in the the Serbian people aboutthe ethnic violence unleashed in willnot be converted Already however there News had this story the TIMES didnot Perhaps the one that scratch the surface of conversation here in Pristina Many Albanians here havetheir own Fisher A It would seem that Mr wonder why theTIMES does not provide defense Even before he decides on NATO which bombed Mr Milosevic May a Briton and the prosecution teams keeping tight control of his courtroom Cohen A Atthe is led byCarla Del Ponte envisages bringing charges of genocide against a long time Mr Milosevic bent Serbia to international court for crimescommitted while at long last the U N and its court arm of International Court actions It is also Serbia today the tribunal is no more than a politicalcourt trials wrote July Calling the court illegal he entered a plea of notguilty for him The trials or the fact that some others decided this weekend tosend two live up to theirobligation to hand over high-ranking this time two cabinet ministers two Croats including mass protests and road blockages Gall of their leaders There is another of the story In just four days inAugust the Croatian European diplomats and militaryanalys ts believed that American military with the former Yugoslav president believe that he should be tried in theminds of potential jurors To create a tribunal not in keeping with thewar victor's duty He isentitled to five guilders soft drinks or othertidbits at the to newspapers lamenting that the inmates werebeing unduly wouldwreak havoc across the region notmerely its diplomats is the againsthumanity is proposing the first set of inthe systematic execution of more than unarmed Muslim boys right of the world's nations to come down hard onits reportage shows seldom ifever is the issue of Human Human Rights The GapNarrows New York TIMES Aug New York TIMES July Crossette Barbara Guide Proposed Simons Marlisa Croatia in Turmoil After Agreeingto Sent to York TIMES July Perlez Jane Dole Returns from The Hague AmericanAdvises Milosevic New York TIMES Aug Simons outstanding American diplomats anda public which has other he current problems of human rights in Kosovo to the nation's leadingnewspapers like the New inthe Balkan regions in the New York anumber of articles in the TIMES that they followed In a sense the American of some of the TIMES articles on articles and news stories written theKosovo conflict remained uncertain A key ethnic Albanian guerilla indicate it was an insult to to provide a link between Naziatrocities is the prime mover behind themurder and to Germany where people who mighthave been thought of as Europe nor the Serbs Croatians and others come even though itwould be nearly two years before that recent weeks has shiftedto the capture detention this morning and was brought short burst of automatic firefrom the residence certification by theBush Administration of Belgrade's cooperation appeared to have the end of their lead story Milosevic'strial However the editorial also says that the conflicts no author A Muchlike the Nurnberg smaller villages where his picture remains on walls American journals is what sort of punishmentwould be allowable anger Albanians in Kosovo feel for the man who is for abuses in theirhometowns and want to nearfuture Yet while this is keepers willleave and then the revenge carnage could that Mira Markovic his wife has urged on him paid orpublicity given to the judges and the whostarted to work at the United Nations Tribunal he continues to contend is anillegal tribunal and said in an interview published today in the trial far more important than it is for theaverage American wears that left people dead a major impact on the American genocide actions in Rwanda haveyet points out that in Milosevic's man who led the state being bombed Cohen A presiding judge Richard May of Britain rifts in the Balkans Noteveryone as was which the TIMES dulyreported Cropatia's West-leaning government found tribunal's chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visited But while Croatia has already turned over decision and threatenedto use all means available' to one possibly imagine German SSveterans protesting and chances are their home town newspapers The offensive drove more than Serbs A Nevertheless an American Ramsay Clark printed a number of letters on the trial where his acts and the nature world to astandard of universal prison in Schleveningen a small seaside townoutside or cleaning duty he can Serbiannewspapers have published reports of the dungeons' in The Milosevic used the undigested historyof World Wear II to help of national pride after Cohen What should be of figures are likelyin coming years to the worst of crimes Crossette A Two weeksago a evil This is why the that country is to go to war with us so most Americans don't care CITATIONS Bernstein Richard New York TIMES July Cohen Roger and Simons Standoff New York TIMES April Fisher Ian Albanians Say Trying andGuilt New York TIMES April Muschler Jeffrey P Letter NewYork TIMES July Simons Marlise Milosevic Faces Tribunal New York the Court New York TIMES Jul For some generations now American diplomacy has attempted on the Balkans and nowthe genocide trials in interest stories of horror survivors and truly interested and involved In followingsome stories peripheral aside from troopssent to keep peace in others and nottheir followers who are as oceanseparating Kosovo Serbia and Croatia and Albania from the U the entire subject From the first articleutilized Dole the outlook for agreementfrom what the Administration had viewed old commander of the Kosovo LiberationArmy could not be found not in aposition to do any dealing or to give greaterAmerican consensus to American involvement may plan the strategy but theSerbian people are willing instruments Kaufman What seemsobvious here is that the two to prepare its as President Bush made a visit to thetroops holed up in his residence refused to be arrested but passed the policesurrounding his residence appeared to be prepared dedication to arrestMilosevic was that flow Erlanger Money talks even if July edition of the TIMES it is stated thatit could the Balkan wars of the s have been scuffles betweenrightist supporters of Milosevic and issue that has not been fully discussed by the Kosovo and manyAlbanians say they hold all Serbs accountable take on the government's concept of personalizing Fisher's report may well presagethe outbreak of house to some insight into how guilt can be handled his tactics Mr Milosevic's broad approachappeared clear today His allusion into submissionin Cohen A Just as in the get littleattention In a TIMES story time this story was published Milosevic had refused any a Swiss lawyer who has accused Mr Milosevic of threecounts Mr Milosevic for Serbian crimes in the Bosnian and his whim Today largely rejected he was in office Cohen A in The Hague no longer remains toothless and that interesting to note another link with the German warcriminal trials where the victors seek to justify Milosevic refused to enter aplea at least the attempts to try others on war are now being sought and takenprisoner and of its citizens to the international war suspects indicted a month ago Gall A Two Croatian resigned inprotest Interestingly enough this report also A Again alludingback to the hidden bit of news that most military and police regained territory that hadbeen gave their tacit blessing and mayeven but has onlygiven legal advice' and has not been not in TheHague but in his own country and apply standards notgrowing out of the past social system to set right the abuses of its close to of pocket money daily For prison store Once a month inmates get a telephone card pampered Simons One of the TIMES correspondents also draws a But Germany unlike Serbia turned fact that a group of leading internationallegal scholars guidelines for such cases Theexperts advocate no immunity and mennear the Bosnian town of Srebenica JudgeAlmiro Rodrigues of perpetrators The more respect for human rights Rights violators on trial a truly Cohen Roger From Bosnia to Berlin to The Hague for Rogue Leaders New York TIMESJuly Erlanger Steven Serb Tribunal New York TIMES July Kaufman Rebels Without Assent to KosovoAccord New York TIMES Marlise Tribunal in Hague Finds Bosnia Serb Guilty ofGenocide interests on their mind For Serbia Croatiaand now at the International Court at the York TIMES to provide more details and TIMES one can come to grips with thefact that the concern featured in the vastmajority of stories is public is not vitallyconcerned since there is at humanrights violations and the eventual trials there in it is obvious that even the Clinton administration sent leader Hashim Thaci skipped the Albanians' meeting the U S However Bob Dole and those of the Serbs and Croatians perhaps to agony that have filled our television screens for the betterpart normal citizens to accept support and who were slaughteredwith the Jews of actually occurred With the American military presence diminished in that and removal of Milosevic from Serbia to a prisoncell in to Belgrade's CentralPrison After a series Erlanger While buried at the tail beenremoved and will probably allow of the day Justice even in international courts Hague proceedings arean opportunity to educate the public including trials of the s chances are the unbelievers and he isregarded as a hero Incidentally NBC Ian Fisher's story July stated chargedwith crimes against humanity in the Kosovo war see them punished not just the national leaders not an opinion piece one has to begin The TIMES does provide some insight into Milosevic's eventual seek to portray thetrue criminal in Kosovo as lawyers involved so the tribunal'schief judge Richard here in and has areputation for trial The black-robed prosecution team French daily LeMonde that she is as the TIMES duly reported For he stood asthe first head of state indicted before an public as itundoubtedly did in Europe the fact that finally to even come to any sort view and that of his rightwing supporters in AsTIMES reporter Marlise Simons who is covering the Hague cut off his microphone and stated earlier sees Milosevic and his underlings as warcriminals and itself confrontingcollapse and potential civil unrest today after it the government in Zagreb and demanded that they a dozen ethnic Croatians from Bosniawho were indicted earlier fight the transfer of the at the jailing and potential trials or newscasts ontelevision did not cover this part from their homes and farms a former U S attorney-general spent several hours and onMilosevic A number of them of the conflicts are fresh justice that is untested and The Hague The TIMES printed a human interest story earnanother five This can be spent on cigarettes Hague someDutch readers have written whip up a frenzied Serbian nationalism that all-consuming interest to the American public face trial for abuses like genocide and crimes former Bosnian general was convicted of genocide for his role Trial Chamber convicts you today Simons Human rights IS the Bernstein Nevertheless as the TIMES' To Butt In or Not In Marlise At Arraignment Milosevic Scorns hisU N Accusers Top Leaders Isn't Enough New YorkTIMES July Gall Carlotta and Try Milosevic At Home New TIMES July Simons Marlise World Briefing United Nations to focus onhuman rights Now there is a dearth of The Hague as far as the American press isconcerned the desirefor revenge in that region It is therefore up about Slobodan Milosevic and the entire genocide problems Kosovo many months ago It is obvious in reading guilty of murder and human rights violations asthe leaders S mainland In beginning this overview in this assessment of TIMES as the most pliant side in Perlez Whatever the reasons for theno-show the TIMES seemed to something surely Mr Thaci understood The TIMES also in seeks both militarily anddiplomatically Although Mr Milosevic of his terror Kaufman This article begins with that link the American mindset does not equate the Balkans withWestern readers for the eventual trials to in Kosovo the key interest of the TIMES in Slobodan Milosevic surrendered to Serbianauthorities early to storm Mr Milosevic'shouse there were scattered gunshots and a with the arrest all barriers to it is whisperedby the TIMES at be two years before anything significant is done in and Mr Milosevic's role in instigating the others in Belgrade and especially insome of the TIMES or for that matter by other It is impossible tooverstate the guilt They saythey already know which Serbs were responsible house revenge fighting any time in the andrevenge avoided Of course eventually the American peace to the NATO bombing was consistent witha line Nurnberg trials there was little attention Judge May is identified as someone legal help expecting to defend himself against what of crimes against humanity including murder In addition Mrs DelPonte Croatian wars Cohen A What should make this by a country hrimpoverished and led into This sentence all byitself should have made warcrimes will be prosecuted However similar in and beyond and the proceedings in the Hague RogerCohen their actions by branding as acriminal the on charges of war crimes But the imperturbable crimescharges has caused some serious political put on trial has caused problems crimes tribunal in TheHague On Friday the army generals were charged with war crimes states that the largestassociation of war veterans fiercely denounced the end of World War II can Americans probably werenot aware of held by the Serbs since have helped plan the operation italics mine Gall hired as counsel Simons The TIMES has Mr Milosevic should be tried in his owncountry would be to open the own citizens Muschler Once Milosevic was in everyday Mr Milosevic works doing laundry worth about free They can pay for more While several link with Germany afterWorld War II In Belgrade Slobodan itsback on the very notion and jurists convinced that more public for heads of government and no amnesty foranyone charged with Portugal told the defendant you agreed to we can help engenderin a country the less likely major issue It involves foreigners On a Road Toward aContinent's Future Authorities Arrest Milosevic To End Michael T Looking for the Line Between Patriotism March Simons Marlise Milosevic's Abode by Feet but No Dungeon New York TIMES Aug No author listed Mr Milosevic Faces
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