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...Lord Robertson used to describe them earlier this year. NATO's intervention to broker the latest cease-fire was an attempt to reduce tensions that had been inflamed by the government offensive that started last Friday. But it appears the alliance misjudged the depths of frustration over the ethnic-Albanian uprising among Macedonian Slavs. Monday's protests started with police reservists, some of whom were given weapons over the past couple of weeks. It's certainly very difficult to find Macedonian Slavs in Skopje who are not fed up, and who don't back government efforts to seek a military...
...NATO's hopes still rest on a political solution being hammered out between the Slav-dominated parties and those representing the ethnic-Albanian minority. How are those talks going...
...talks have collapsed. The ethnic-Albanian parties have remained silent in recent days, and there is no communication with the Slav-dominated parties. (Britain's Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw was supposed to visit today to boost the political talks, but he canceled his trip. The West may be hoping for a cooling off period before getting the parties back to table, but the problem is that fighting is actually continuing...
...rebels score more successes against the security forces, protests in Skopje will intensify. And the concern is that if those spill across the river - if Macedonian Slavs in their frustration with the uprising begin attacking ethnic-Albanian communities, that will be the beginning of a civil...
...worrying, though, is that the situation is being taken out of the hands of the politicians. Already, the two communities are extremely divided and deeply mistrustful. There's a real, dangerous and palpable frustration among Macedonian Slavs on the ground with the uprising, and the ongoing refusal of Albanian politicians to distance themselves entirely from the National Liberation Army...