Word: kosovo
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...will eliminate the opposition supporters from the lists of eligible voters while allowing its supporters to vote under several names. Employees of state-run enterprises will receive pre-filled voting slips in advance. As if that was not enough, Milosevic is ready to openly steal the votes of the Kosovo Albanians, who will not participate in the election. In short, the Yugoslav electoral process resembles a game of cards where one player gets to decide on the rules after having seen the hands of all the other players...
...more worrying that the U.S. and Europeans have no clear policy about what to do if violence breaks out after the election in Montenegro, Kosovo or Serbia itself. Once again, the West will find itself reacting to Milosevic's move. When NATO went to war against Milosevic, they really weren't sure what they were getting into. When he suddenly agreed to withdraw from Kosovo, NATO was left in a situation of not knowing what to do about Kosovo or about Milosevic. And now as the situation threatens to escalate, once again they don't know what...
Even before the U.S. Army released its report into the abuse of civilians by G.I.s in Kosovo, the word was out: A tiny knot of American soldiers had harassed and assaulted Kosovar civilians because the troops had prepared for war and had not been adequately schooled in peacekeeping. "As a result, the [U.S. troops] experienced difficulties tempering their combat mentality for adapting and transitioning to the Kosovo [mission]," Col. John Morgan III concluded in a report released Monday at the Pentagon. "In [this] environment, the unit's overly aggressive tendencies were manifested in practices such as the unit slogan, 'Shoot...
...report is certain to fuel arguments by Republicans that sending in elite fighting units like the 82nd to perform rent-a-cop missions like those in Kosovo dulls their fighting edge, saps morale and can lead to embarrassments like those detailed in the report. But the soldiers' protestations of ignorance of the regs don't hold up under scrutiny. NATO rules required each to carry a blue pocket card detailing how civilians were to be treated. "Use the minimum force necessary to accomplish your mission," it began. "Treat everyone, including civilians and detained hostile forces/belligerents, humanely." Even combatants aren...
...True, the guilty were only a dozen or so members of the storied 82nd Airborne Division, but the blame for the tawdry details seeps far higher up their chain of command. Their woes didn't come after a year of boring peacekeeping duties in southeastern Kosovo, but rather began shortly after the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Regiment arrived in the Balkans last September. Once deployed to the town of Vitina, the soldiers morphed, figuratively if not literally, into cops, poised delicately between the minority Serb population and Kosovar Albanians eager for revenge against the horrors wrought upon...