Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very concerned about the situation in Kosovo, in the Yugoslav Serbian Republic. The province of Kosovo has about 2 million people, more than 90 percent of whom are ethnic Albanians. Using the excuse of fighting the Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the Serbian Army (15,000 troops) and police (6,000 troops) have systematically attacked innocent Albanian civilians whose only crime has been their existence in their own homeland...
...President Milosevic has exploited Western reluctance to act by slowing down his campaign against Kosovo's Albanian majority -- without mounting a full-scale offensive, the Serbs have systematically recaptured territory and driven tens of thousands of civilians from their homes. The mounting tide of refugees has, however, raised pressure on Western governments to respond forcefully, and evidence of a crime against humanity could leave them little choice...
While PRESIDENT CLINTON's foreign policy team debates how to prevent the fighting in Kosovo from killing tens of thousands of Albanian refugees, a larger humanitarian disaster is unfolding in the Sudan. International relief organizations estimate that 2.6 million people, many of them children, are in danger of starving to death in southern Sudan, which has been hammered this year by El Nino-induced drought and a long-festering civil war. "We've got a hellacious famine on our hands," worries ROGER WINTER, director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees. The U.N. and U.S. have been slow to react...
...Skopje. Holbrooke and Hill meet with Rugova. It's 90[degrees]F., but the Kosovar novelist and literature professor arrives wearing a sweater, coat and red silk ascot. As the men sit down, Holbrooke asks Rugova if he wants to remove his jacket. "No," Rugova responds. "I'm an Albanian snake...
Milosevic remains evasive, knowing NATO is very reluctant to intervene. The Serbian strongman has only himself to blame for stoking ethnic Albanian resentment. As a Kosovar leader warns, "If Milosevic continues his current policy of negotiating and killing at the same time, there will be no solution other than for everyone to go and join the K.L.A." All too aware of this grim possibility, Holbrooke leaves the dinner with little more than a case of indigestion...