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'The underworld ties put intelligence officers in these newly independent countries on the wrong side of the law' (Photo: reuvenim)

Yugoslavia and the profits of doom

This article was first published on 100reporters.com, an investigative journalism website.

As the nation once called Yugoslavia collapsed into a deadly maelstrom through the 1990s, the world largely stood mute in the face of unspeakable atrocities: ethnically-driven mass murders, concentration camps and rape as a weapon of war. Conventional wisdom blamed the Balkan nations for their own blood-soaked disintegration, which took more than 130,000 lives.

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'The underworld ties put intelligence officers in these newly independent countries on the wrong side of the law' (Photo: reuvenim)

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