Izbica, Meja, Bela Crkva: these were once small, anonymous villages in Kosovo. Now, like Srebrenica or Vukovar, these names will resonate around the world as sites of grisly civilian massacres. In Bosnia, in Rwanda, in Cambodia, it has taken years to document the extent of atrocities. But in Kosovo, the rapid return of refugees and the unprecedented access given to human rights workers makes it more likely that we will be able to identify and name the missing and killed more quickly.
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Commentary
Kosovo's Killing Fields
As appeared in The Wall Street Journal
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