Word: kosovo
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...NETHERLANDS Genocide Charge Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic made a second defiant appearance before the U.N. war crimes tribunal as chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said charges against him would include genocide. Milosevic currently faces four charges of crimes against humanity arising from the Kosovo conflict in 1999. Del Ponte said additional charges of genocide in Bosnia and war crimes in Croatia would be brought against him in October. A Dutch court rejected a claim by Milosevic that his detention was illegal...
...N.L.A.] murderers and terrorists," he says. "Now they're sending their highest emissaries to discuss voluntarily giving up their weapons." Nowhere is that sense of betrayal stronger, perhaps, than among the couple dozen Macedonian Slavs manning a roadblock on the road from Skopje north to the border with Kosovo - the main line of ground communication for NATO's operations in the Serb province. Macedonian Slavs make up the majority of the estimated 64,000 people displaced from villages in majority ethnic Albanian regions now controlled by the N.L.A. "We know this picture from Kosovo," said a black-clad elderly woman...
...mood is far more welcoming in the N.L.A.-controlled village of Radusa, just over the hill from the border with Kosovo. With most of the civilians gone, a pair of donkeys had taken refuge from the sun in the partially destroyed mosque. The local N.L.A. commander, code-named Mesusi, posed in front of a captured T-55 tank to say he had already begun discussing the modalities of disarmament with British troops. "We're going to hand in all 140 of our guns," he said, as well as the two tanks and one armored personnel carrier captured in fighting with...
...NATO officials counter that they can't do more than the Macedonian government has asked them to. However shaky the government is, it has sovereignty; the warring parties in Bosnia relinquished their sovereignty at Dayton in 1995, and Serbia lost its over Kosovo after the 1999 air campaign. NATO officials are perturbed that their reluctant hosts can't even stomach clearing the blockade from the Skopje-Pristina road; clearing the constitutional changes will take a lot more political courage than that...
...phase shift" once NATO pulls out. But no one really believes the N.L.A. is going to fade into the hills, however many guns it hands over in the coming month. Ten years in the Balkans have regrettably demonstrated the stubborn inertia of armed conflict. Just as in Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO could find the potential cost of leaving higher than that of sticking around...