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Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton administration spin during the 1999 bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who were fighting a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well, guess what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of the KLA stripe to be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is also considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops police the border between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. NATO secretary general...
...sensibilities of Kosovo's Albanian leaders may have diminished in importance in NATO eyes as the territory has become a launching pad for Albanian nationalist insurgencies inside Serbia proper and in Macedonia. Those developments have put Western troops, who are charged with controlling Kosovo's borders, on a collision course with elements of their erstwhile allies in the KLA who are now seeking new targets. U.S. troops on Wednesday wounded two ethnic Albanian guerrillas in a firefight near the Macedonian village of Tanusevci, marking a dangerous new escalation of the risk to NATO forces in the region. With Yugoslavia...
...There was some discussion about the ever-expanding number of award categories, which now exceed 100. It can't be too long before we have Best Contemporary Alternative Albanian Folk-Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Not in the English Language.) Which should at least give an opportunity for Tirana rap duo Moxo & Oxo to win an award...
...those of women victims in this story have been changed) was smuggled in the backs of cars across successive borders through Serbia and eventually to a dusty little town in the war-torn province of Kosovo, where she was sold for a second time to two burly Albanian bar owners named Nazif and Luli. They forced her to have sex with as many as four clients a night. "One of them would hit me, then give me something to wipe my tears with and lead me across the floor to a client, smiling," Tatiana recalls. "It was impossible to disobey...
...floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought this was possible. These people are animals," she said. One Albanian gang branded its women with tattoos to prevent them from being stolen.Lately, the practice has surfaced in the Balkans in a particularly brutal form. Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, once mainly source countries for women lured into the trade (during the Kosovo refugee crisis, traffickers combed the camps for "recruits"), have...