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...south. The rebellious province of Kosovo today looks dangerously like Bosnia yesterday: Serb soldiers marauding through isolated villages, firing wildly at the inhabitants; corpses of women and children laid out for identification by relatives; stony-faced refugees scrambling for shelter across hillsides covered in scrub oak; belligerent young ethnic Albanian rebels waving Kalashnikovs and grenades at random roadblocks...
Amid the tenuous Balkan peace, the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo is rising in revolt against the heavy-handed nine-year rule of the Serb minority. Tired of domination by Belgrade, alienated by linguistic, cultural and religious differences, the Kosovars, as the Kosovo Albanians are called, have long pushed peacefully for freedom from Serb-run Yugoslavia. Now they insist on nothing less than full independence, but Serbia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, who set the bloody standard for nationalist retaliation when Croatia and Bosnia tried to break away, is just as determined to block that. As the hatred builds and hard...
...Under pressure from the West, the Serb government had offered to hold talks with leaders of Kosovo's Albanian majority. But with Belgrade ruling out demands for independence for the region, no Albanian leaders were prepared to take a meeting. "The difference between what the two side are prepared to consider is so vast that right now there isn't much for them to talk about," says TIME's Central Europe bureau chief, Massimo Calabresi...
...Anger over last week's massacres by Serb paramilitaries, meanwhile, is boosting Albanian support for the violent actions of the Kosovo Liberation Front. That, together with Serbian intransigence, is likely to dash the best efforts of the international community to keep the peace in the Balkans...
...Albanian students in Kosova have been denied access to universities and secondary schools for the past seven years. Although these protests have been non-violent, they have met extremely violent responses from the military and the police. Students have been assaulted by police with guns, tear gas and nightsticks. Some students and professors have been killed during police raids of their "classrooms"--rooms in houses where, without textbooks, chalk boards, or even pencils and paper, teachers and student gather in an attempt to learn...