As soon as they returned from their ordeal, the girls went to Lallish to be blessed and cleansed in the holy spring below the temple.
She follows the trail of photojournalism from Roger Fenton in the Valley of Death after the charge of the Light Brigade, to Mathew Brady's illustrating of America's Civil War, to Robert Capa among Spanish Republicans, to the horrors of Buchenwald and Hiroshima, to famine in India and carnage in Biafra and napalm in Vietnam and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
And, when Europe was again disfigured by concentration camps and ethnic cleansing, in the Balkans, we waited for years before pacifying Bosnia and, later, Kosovo with aerial bombardments.
But by raising the stakes for both Milosevic and his Kosovo Liberation Army foes, the West's intervention probably inspired more bloodletting and ethnic cleansing in the short term, exacerbating the very humanitarian crisis it was intended to forestall.
A decade of civil war and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia completed the process.
Elsewhere around the globe, there was a civil war in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, and ethnic cleansing in the place formerly known as Yugoslavia.
As late as 1999, after more cajoling, the Europeans helped bomb Serbia in a bid to end almost a decade of civil war and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia that was taking place in Europe's own backyard.
Nancy Paterson, an international war crimes prosecutor who played a leading role in building the case linking the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to massacres, mass rape and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s, died on March 27 at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 56.
In contrast to the other Yugoslav republics, whose efforts to secede from Yugoslavia provoked campaigns of nationalist violence and ethnic cleansing in the early 1990s, the Republic of Macedonia was peacefully established as a sovereign and independent state on September 8 , 1991 by a vote of the citizens of Macedonia.
Strong crypto is not an especially good defense against street police brutality, immigration bans, bans on military service, and ethnic cleansing in the form of mass deportations.
