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...recent violence in Kosovo signals a rapid unraveling of authority in the already unstable region. The NATO intervention which promised to provide peace and tolerance to the ethnically divided area is understaffed and underfunded...
Montenegro-born Mr. Bulatovic was a fierce Milosevic loyalist who helped organize his Kosovo campaign, and there had been some speculation in Belgrade that his killing may have been a retaliation for the death of Arkan. "But we don't really know who ordered Arkan's killing, and the speculation over Bulatovic's death has been all over the place," says Anastasijevic. "There's clearly a violent power struggle taking place within the regime. Although they are united politically, there are different interest groups in the regime fighting turf wars for control of money and resources." Despite the recent assassinations...
...first casualty of war is the truth - particularly when it's about casualties. After the 11-week air campaign last spring, the Pentagon said civilians were killed at just 30 targets in Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro where NATO bombs were dropped. Meanwhile, Serbia claimed NATO warplanes were responsible for at least 1,200 civilian deaths, a figure the Defense Department hasn't challenged...
Russia may have claimed to be following NATO's Kosovo playbook in Chechnya, but its "liberation" of Grozny appears more in line with General William Westmoreland's Vietnam War dictum of destroying a village in order to save it. Acting president Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that Russian forces were in full control of the capital, and had managed to find an administrative building still standing amid the rubble on which to hoist the Russian flag. But with the bulk of the city's two to three thousand Chechen defenders having broken through Russian lines - at a considerable cost in casualties...
...military units deployed as peacekeepers balk at doing police work. So the U.N. has to start from scratch each time, enlisting nations to contribute policemen. "Getting enough of them is always a problem," says a senior State Department official. For example, it has been seven months since the Kosovo war ended, but the U.N. has only about 2,000 of the 4,700 policemen it needs there. The fighting in East Timor ended four months ago, but only 330 of the 1,640 cops requested by the U.N. have shown up. Albright wants nations to promise police officers ahead...