Word: albanian
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...remains strongly opposed to that republic?s aspirations for independence. And while he may not have started any of the wars Milosevic fought over the past decade, he remains a passionate advocate of the rights of the Serb minorities in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. The latter territory?s ethnic-Albanian leadership may well regard Kostunica?s election as a setback, since there was no way the international community would force them to accept rule from Belgrade while Milosevic was in power, but now that he?s out they?re more likely to follow the U.N. Security Council resolution...
...patriotism, he never could have won, but it wasn't pandering. His nationalist sentiments run deep. He railed repeatedly against the West for bombing his homeland. He positioned himself as a firm advocate of Serbian interests in Kosovo, promising to negotiate the safe return of the thousands who fled Albanian retribution after the war. He said protecting Milosevic from international war-crimes prosecution was a matter of constitutional sovereignty. He made it clear his Yugoslavia would not become "anybody's protectorate...
...Albanian male couldn't understand what was happening. "You're KFOR - you should be protecting us," he shouted at the soldiers. "An older Albanian male came up to me and asked me why were we doing this," a sergeant told investigators. "I couldn't answer...
...they crossed the line. U.S. troops took an Albanian man suspected of wrongdoing to a field outside of town, where they measured his height. The G.I.'s "proceeded to dig a grave in front of the Albanian," and then declared "that if he did not tell him what he wanted to know that they were going to shoot him, and bury him, and that no one would ever know," an unidentified soldier said...
...second case, 1st Lt. John S. Serafini, an A Company platoon leader, and Sgt. Adam B. Gitlin, mistreated an ethnic Albanian suspected of a grenade attack on a Serbian bar. The suspect claimed Gitlin beat him during a hostile interrogation. "1st Lt. Serafini attempted to stick his sheath knife with a six- inch long blade into the wall," the report said. "... When 1st Lt. Serafini was unsuccessful in sticking the knife in the wall, he repeatedly stuck the knife into a table." In a second incident, Serafini unloaded his revolver, walked back into a room and held...