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...President Vojislav Kostunica has resisted extraditing the former dictator to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, insisting that he be tried in Serbia for alleged crimes including corruption and abuse of power. Yet the Milosevic government’s atrocities against Muslims in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are crimes against humanity, not only against the laws of Serbia, and he should confront his accusers in the international tribunal...
...MACEDONIA Collateral Damage Macedonian forces continued pounding ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo as fighting spilled into the neighboring province, where a stray shell killed three civilians. nato ordered an urgent probe into the incident, at the ethnic Albanian hamlet of Krivenik, while 400 British troops were deployed in the region and pressure mounted for a halt to hostilities...
...complete clean slate. Both men are reluctant to send Milosevic and other indicted war criminals to the Hague. Both men too had troubling records of their own. Kostunica, hailed as an improvement on Milosevic, was seen in in 1998 before the election waving an AK-47 in Kosovo with an eerie glee. An improvement over Milosevic, perhaps, but the West was uncertain how much of one he represented...
...file of the N.L.A. may be a ragtag group, its leadership probably is not. It is widely assumed by diplomats and local Albanian leaders that the top commanders--operating under names like "Cobra" and "The Beard"--include men who battled Serb units in 1998 and 1999 with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Significantly, ex-K.L.A. commanders in Kosovo have declined to condemn the insurgency, and a radical Kosovo leader last week claimed solidarity with the new group. Moreover, the hit-and-run attacks on police outposts closely resemble K.L.A. tactics during the Kosovo conflict. The guerrillas could be eager...
...Macedonian government to strike at rebel targets above the town of Tetovo, site of the Balkans' newest insurgency. While it succeeded in panicking Albanian civilians, it left the rebels themselves more or less unfazed. Subsequent government reports that the insurgents were laying down their weapons and fleeing toward the Kosovo border proved groundless. By week's end they were back, striking at police positions in Tetovo and drawing a furious response from army tanks and artillery. "The fighters will remain in their positions," Fazli Veliu, a spokesman for the rebels, told TIME from his home in Geneva, Switzerland. "They will...