Word: albania
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...three women gather up the human debris of her father and 34 relatives and neighbors into little bags. They tagged each with a name and buried them in two communal graves. Then all those who had survived fled, some to the hills above the town of Pec, some to Albania, anywhere away from the Serbian brutality...
...Thaci could be embarrassing for Washington, which on Thursday put a $5 million bounty on the head of another war thug, Slobodan Milosevic. The U.S. association with Thaci may also be dangerous for the Balkans as a whole. "The KLA hasn?t abandoned its goal of creating a Greater Albania, and pictures of U.S. officials alongside KLA leaders sends the message that Washington supports the KLA option," says Anastasijevic. "That can?t lead to any good result in the region...
...substantially dimmed. Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader, was posing for pictures with Milosevic while Thaci and his forces were struggling in the hills. Although most everyone agrees that the Milosevic meetings were conducted under duress, the images hurt Rugova. He still has many loyal followers in the camps of Albania and Macedonia, but he also has no shortage of political enemies...
...first time such a tribunal had ever indicted a sitting head of state, but the monstrosity of what has happened in Kosovo, the tribunal explained, demanded dramatic action. The evidence is easy to see, both inside Kosovo and outside its borders. Kosovars in the refugee camps of Macedonia and Albania have few comforts other than a respite from life on a battlefield. Inside Kosovo, there is no distinction between combatants and noncombatants. It is a place of total...
...length of which the two sides apparently had some disagreement over -- life on the ground was pretty much the same as it has been for the last 73 days. NATO continued to let loose from the air, bombing targets both in and outside of Kosovo. Serb mortars landed in Albania, scattering refugees and relief workers, and Milosevic's armies continued to do battle with KLA troops. "The fighting isn't over yet," said NATO military spokesman Gen. Walter Jertz. "Serb forces will not halt their operations until their commanders give them the order. There is hope that will happen soon...