Word: kosovo
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...personnel. And in a mean frontier town, a sheriff whose priority is keeping out of harm's way is always in danger of being ineffective - or worse. NATO feared that aggressive peacekeeping and enforcement would provoke attacks on its troops not only in Macedonia but back in Kosovo; by dithering - and legitimizing the rebels by pushing the Macedonian government reluctantly into cease-fire agreements - it has all but ensured the territorial divisions it desperately wanted to prevent...
...changes and greater civil rights for Albanians in Macedonia is, frankly, preposterous. This was no mass civil-rights movement that bumped into an unyielding state and then took the fateful decision to respond to violence with violence. This began with small bands of armed men dispatched from NATO-controlled Kosovo by the advocates of a Greater Albania (comprising Albania, Kosovo and those pieces of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and even northern Greece populated by Albanian majorities), and has ripened into a situation dangerously close to civil...
...National Liberation Army, launched attacks on government forces, hoping to provoke a ham-fisted response that would drive Macedonia's Albanians - who have plenty of political, economic and social grievances - into the movement's arms. They also hoped to repeat the success of their de facto parent organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army, which managed to provoke such extreme brutality from the Serb authorities that NATO eventually intervened on the Albanian side...
...first Premier to do so in an official capacity. Gerhard SchrOder's government is explicitly committed to the idea that Germany can and should be a "normal" country, not one whose every move is dictated by war guilt. German pilots flew missions during NATO's 1999 war in Kosovo, the first time its armed forces have taken part in offensive actions since 1945. Even in Britain, appeals to the spirit of 1940, which translate into a broad suspicion of Europe, seem to have less power than they once...
...even more so, I think, when the evidence against Milosevic is revealed. The recent discoveries of mass graves, a new one almost every day, here in Serbia have revealed Milosevic's efforts to cover up what happened in Kosovo. And that has helped change attitudes here to examining the past...