category: Balkans
Los Angeles Times | August 15, 2004
The Stone Fields: An Epitah for the Living. By Courtney Angela Brkic
The Digital Journalist | January 2003
A photographic reminder of evil.
Dissent | January 2002
The illusions and delusions behind 200,000 deaths in Bosnia.
Slate | September 13, 2001
Dispatches from Skopje
The New York Times | June 30, 2001
The New Republic Online | June 29, 2001
Why the Bush administration should be thrilled about Macedonia.
The Washington Post | March 26, 2001
Brill's Content | March 2001
Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic understood the power of propaganda and did his best to control the media. But his failure to silence the U.S.-supported radio station B-92 was emblematic of the war he lost to control the country.
The Atlantic Monthly | February 2001
Writers in post-Milosevic Yugoslavia discover that angst no longer sells.
Details | January 2001
Inside a roiling soccer stadium in Belgrade, old hostilities ignite an afternoon of bloody jubilation, steel-toed kicks, and broken teeth.
The New York Times | October 24, 2000
The New York Times Magazine | October 22, 2000
The former opposition leader and new mayor of Belgrade, Milan Protic, explains one of his postrevolution mandates: clean up the streets already.
Slate | October 2000
Five days in Serbia’s turbulent capital.
San Jose Mercury News | October 1, 2000
George | December 1999
For more than a decade, photographer James Nachtwey has chronicled the war zones of the world—Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya among them. Now, a new book, Inferno, brings us his vision of hell on earth.
Talk | December 1999
Tijana Mandic was the therapist of choice for Belgrade’s cultural elite. Then a war-scarred veteran came under her care, and the horror of his battles in the Balkans began to haunt her dreams.
George | June 1999
The war in Yugoslavia is so complicated that it’s sometimes hard to tell the players without a scorecard. Well, here it is—a list of the Balkans’ bad guys.
The New York Times | May 31, 1999
The New York Times | May 3, 1999
The New Republic | October 12, 1998
A war correspondent returns.
Crimes of War | August 1998
Definition of a War Crime
Crimes of War | August 1998
Definition of a War Crime
The New York Times | March 10, 1998
Los Angeles Times | March 1, 1998
The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience. By Michael Ignatieff
The Washington Post | August 20, 1997
Montenegro. By Starling Lawrence
The New York Times | July 14, 1997
The Washington Post | May 12, 1996
Vanity Fair | March 1996
In Bosnia, soldiers keep an uneasy peace. In the Hague, an international war-crimes tribunal convenes. But neither courts nor armies can lay to rest the nightmare of the Bosnian Serb death camps. In an excerpt from his new book, Peter Maass finds that mass torture, rape, and murder are the face of an only too human evil.
The Washington Post | February 25, 1996
The Washington Post | April 20, 1994