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Record 1 2003-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A protected zone in a country designated for members of a religious or ethnic minority (as in former Yugoslavia).

CONT

... the watching world ... had been largely impotent in the face of the determined Serbs who sit in the hills outside so-called safe havens like Gorazde and rain mortar fire on cowering Maslion refugees.

OBS

Not to be confused with the better known "tax haven".

French

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  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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