Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NATO's bombing campaign has improbably united Serbs behind a president they love to hate, but it has had the opposite effect on Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership -- and that could become a major problem for the West...
Washington is alarmed at indications that leading Kosovar Albanian moderate Ibrahim Rugova may be moving toward some form of peace deal with Milosevic. Rugova reportedly met Russian diplomats Monday, after Serb TV last week showed him meeting with Milosevic, in footage that was supposedly taken last Wednesday...
Faced with a humanitarian disaster in Europe on a scale not seen since the end of World War II, the U.S. said on Tuesday that it would accept and house its share of ethnic Albanian refugees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military base in Cuba. After obtaining assurances from each other that they would carry through on their pledges, the NATO allies moved "remarkably swiftly," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, to begin carrying out the logistics of moving some of the refugees to their own countries and installations. "The speed is a testament to the unity the allies...
...fact, it began to collapse almost immediately. The unarmed monitors sat by helplessly as the killings in Kosovo continued. And overseas Albanians poured millions of dollars into the province to help arm the growing K.L.A. The K.L.A. was anything but an efficient killing machine, yet its consistent pattern of knocking off one or two Serbian cops a week was enough to infuriate Milosevic and to increase Serb pressure for a reprisal. On Jan. 15 it came: a massacre of 45 ethnic Albanian civilians by Serb security police outside the town of Racak. Furious, Albright engineered an ultimatum that NATO delivered...
...KOSOVO AS VIETNAM Yes, but whose Vietnam? The Vietnamese people in this analogy are actually the overwhelmingly Albanian population of Kosovo, and the analogue to the Viet Cong is the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo is the Serbs' Vietnam, not ours. If NATO really does eventually destroy Milosevic's army from the air, as General Wesley Clark has threatened (although he hasn't explained how this can be done without inflicting extensive civilian casualties), then the K.L.A. will soon be riding into Pristina as if into Saigon. Then the remaining Serbs living in Kosovo will probably flee. Milosevic knows this...