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TIME.com: Fighting in Macedonia has flared up again after another brief lull, and the government has launched offensives on two fronts against Albanian separatists. Is the government winning...
...going to be, or even how serious the level of fighting is right now. The Macedonian security forces are not well trained or equipped for this sort of anti-guerrilla operation in the mountains, and there is always a great danger that if they inflict civilian casualties in the Albanian villages where the rebels are hiding, the fragile unity government that involves the main ethnic-Albanian parties could collapse, which could seal the fate of multiethnic Macedonia...
...Still, the combination the Macedonian offensive and the return, with NATO approval, of Yugoslav troops into the last section of the "Ground Safety Zone" established in southern Serbia at the end of the Kosovo conflict (where Albanian separatists had been waging a renewed campaign) is going to hurt the cause of the rebels in both Macedonia and southern Serbia...
...government holding up under the strain - the Albanian parties can't be happy about the renewed offensive...
...MACEDONIA Peaceful Overture All major Macedonian political parties agreed to set up a coalition government that would address some of the demands put forward by ethnic Albanian rebels who have been fighting government forces north of the capital, Skopje. The agreement coincided with a temporary ceasefire during which aid groups were able to reach ethnic Albanian villages that had been cut off by shelling. But rebels rejected the idea that a new coalition would solve their problems. Some 8,000 women and children fled the fighting...