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The Winter of BOSNIA,

ISLAM KOSOVO AND

and the Spring to Come MACEDONIA

The peoples of the

Balkans dragged from

one war to another

T owards the end of the twentieth cen-
tury, the world witnessed a huge and
terrible genocide. It began in 1992,
and over its course hundreds of thou-
sands of people were thrown out of their
lands, killed, thrown in concentration camps,
and subjected to inhuman torture. The most
striking and singular feature of this geno-
cide, which began in Bosnia and then moved
to Kosovo, was that it took place before the
eyes of the whole world, right next door to
the countries of Europe.
The savagery in Bosnia which began in
1992 lasted until the spring of 1995.
Throughout its course there was violence the
likes of which has seldom been equaled in
history. The number of Bosnian Muslims
killed by the Serbs was more than 200,000.