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...Berets? They were in action again last week, this time against Albanian guerrillas along the Kosovo border, though these days they are under a different command. The new government defends its reluctance to send even indicted war criminals to the Hague, citing the risk of political instability if it acts too fast. But the reverse is also true. "If we want to build a normal society, we need to face the truth about these crimes and punish the perpetrators," says Natasa Kandic, head of a local human-rights group, the Humanitarian Law Fund. Anything less would be getting away with...
Last week American patrols got a glimpse of just the kind of Balkans war politicians and generals fear most. But the enemy wasn't Serbs, rather a group of renegade Albanians who dream of a "greater Albania" and are intent on attacking the Serbs and Macedonians, who stand in their way. From Washington to Athens, officials denounced "Albanian extremism" as the latest, most serious threat to peace in the Balkans. But will American and European troops fight against the guerrillas? No Western forces are eager to be drawn into a fight with the guerrillas on their own turf. Instead, last...
Since the early 1990s, Western officials have feared a spillover of violence into Macedonia, the only Yugoslav republic to have won independence without bloodshed--thus far. The republic's 30% Albanian, 60% Macedonian-Slav mix is as volatile as any other in the former Yugoslavia, but a progressive government and Western aid have kept things stable. In recent weeks, however, a couple of hundred former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army attacked Macedonian army and police positions while another group assailed Serbian security forces in the nearby Presevo Valley--each in an apparent attempt to carve out additional territory...
...sides in heavy street fighting - and the West is urging them to show restraint - or else they'll simply have to accept the situation that they've lost a piece of territory and concentrate on preventing similar things from happening elsewhere in Western Macedonia where there is a large Albanian population...
...NATO is afraid that any intervention in Macedonia will destabilize the situation in Kosovo, and the last thing they want is to be confronting Albanian nationalists there. So NATO is likely to sit on its hands and watch another Balkan disaster unfold...