Two months ago Dick Marty’s prominent report on human organ trafficking started a wind of change for the newborn republic of Kosovo. In a detailed report named “Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo”, Marty, a former Swiss prosecutor and member of the Swiss Liberal Party, alleged serious crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war in 1999. As the report itself states, Dick Marty resorts to the same allegations written in the book of
Feud I have to admit I am a peaceful person. I do not like quarrels or bad feelings. Life is just too short to waste myself on issues like feud. Feud is all around the world. Feud is an “argument that has been going around for so long between two people or groups”(Dictionary,Kate Woodford page 1). Feud can happen in many ways, it can start by just a simple thing, and it can turn to a bad, dangerous event. A example of feud is on the book “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, it really helps us
The Kosovo Albanian War drips with International Relations’ theory. Steeped lavishly with interactions, mostly violent unfortunately, there is ample breeding ground for one’s crop of theory. With societal rifts of anguish, for each side unable to appease the other, the land slipped into an entrenched ideology of nationalism against one another. The extent of the war pre-dates NATO and the UN, institutions that made a firm stand in Kosovo, and even the whispered declaration of war. Theory provokes
Therefore, what we mostly see on the screen is what the sponsors promote, which are usually mechanisms to keep society stable. This exactly what American media was doing from the muckrakers of the 20's to the war in Kosovo in the 90's. Let us now look at some examples of the use of TV as a mean of control over society. Before January 1991, public opinion polls showed that the American public was split into two groups, 50% each, about whether the U.S. should attack
National Sovereignty, Oppressive Government, and the US Role in the World Introduction The American attack against Afghanistan that was triggered by the September 11th tragedy once again raised the question of US role in the world. The current military intervention also touched the issue of the major factors, defining the course of US international policy. In the globalized world today the ratio of “soft power” (the ability to attract through cultural and ideological appeal) to “hard
The first battle of the Kosovo war which was meticulously planned with stomach revolting malice was less than a mile from my house and it resulted in the death of over 50 members of the Jashari family. As the Serbian Army surrounded the three homes the Jashari’s began to prepare for the onslaught that was to come. Although less than 20 men had arms they valiantly defended their house, their land, and most importantly their family from a determined and well organize Army. These men, farmers by trade
Abstract According to the United States Department of Justice reports, each year nearly 800,000 children are claimed to be missing. This shows that each day, over 2,000 children are reported missing. Kidnappings occur for a variety of reasons, and at the hands of many different people (“Children Exploitation and Obscenity Section”, n.d.). For example, the United States Department of Justice claims that 203,000 children are kidnapped by family members annually, while 58,200 are abducted by individuals
The situation that the Captain is faced with is multi-faceted and complicated. The consequences of his decision may have results of strategic importance to the relationship between not only China and the United States, but between Vietnam and the U.S., as well as other peripheral nations that share interests and territorial claims in the South China Sea. Additional aspects impacting the situation include the history that is important to understanding China’s thought process, humanitarian concerns
dominates state and society in China. Its power rest on four pillars: its control of China’s approximately 2.25 million person-strong military, the People’s liberation army, its 1.5 million person-strong paramilitary forces, the people’s armed police, and it’s 800,000 other internal security forces. The people’s liberation army is not a national army belonging to the state. Rather it is an armed wing of the communist party, with the party’s exercise of absolute leadership over the military. The national
Arthur Sions CYB 633 – Critical National Infrastructures and National Security Week Seven Research Paper Russian and Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Utica College October 15, 2016 Introduction In this paper I will discuss a total of four Advanced Persistent Threat Groups (APT). I will discuss their motives, attack objectives, targets of the attacks, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), and attack vectors. I will propose strategies that would deter and provide defense against