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Article: Conflict in Kosovo. (war-torn Yugoslavian region)(Cover Story)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- November 6, 1998
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PRISTINA, KOSOVO -- HATE. It destroys families, corrupts governments, turns good people bad, and provides fertile soil for the evil flowers of anger, rage, sorrow, and death. If you doubt any of this, take a look at what has happened in Kosovo.
Kosovo is a province of Serbia. Serbia, in turn, is part of the nation of Yugoslavia in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe.
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Ethnic War
Since February 28, Kosovo has been torn apart by a bloody ethnic war -- a war between peoples of different races of cultures -- in which women, children, and the elderly, as well as soldiers, have been targets.
On one side are ethnic ...