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...Macedonian conflict borders on the absurd - at least through the prism of NATO's wishful thinking. The troubled Balkan nation appeared to accelerate down the slide towards full-blown civil war Monday as ethnic-Albanian rebels fought government forces for control over Tetovo, Macedonia's second city which is claimed as an unofficial capital by the rebels. At the same time, Macedonians driven out of their villages by rebel forces in a familiar spectacle of Balkan "ethnic cleansing" vented their rage on Western embassies - and, inevitably, a McDonalds - in the capital overnight. The facts on the ground suggest a rapid...
...more in line with their name, "liberating" chunks of territory from government control and effecting a de facto partition into rival zones of control. And that's why Macedonians on the street and in government are venting their rage not only at the rebels - but the wider ethnic-Albanian community and also NATO...
...presence of Western peacekeeping troops in the Balkans has stabilized Bosnia and Kosovo (except, of course, for those unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue...
...Yugoslav Federation rebuild its economy. Milosevic, the first former head of state to face a war-crimes tribunal, will appear before the court this week to hear the charges against him. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Mediators pulled Macedonia back from civil war after the evacuation of armed ethnic Albanian rebels from a village near the capital sparked violent Macedonian Slav protests. Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity - a new E.U. envoy, François Léotard, arrived in Skopje - NATO approved a conditional plan to deploy 3,000 troops and Macedonia's Interior Ministry said it would demobilize...
...releasing reports of police discoveries of mass graves within Serbia containing bodies of Kosovar civilians executed by Serb soldiers during the nato air war. Most shocking was the revelation that security forces in April 1999 destroyed a refrigerated truck dredged from the River Danube that held dozens of Albanian corpses. Milosevic allegedly ordered the troops to bury corpses in secret locations in an effort to hide evidence of war crimes. According to Ljiljana Bacevic, a researcher at Belgrade's Institute for Social Sciences, 75% of Yugoslavs now believe Milosevic should be tried for war crimes, up from 50% last year...