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...Killing Continues KOSOVO Two U.N. peacekeepers died in an ambush as the fallout continued from the worst wave of violence to sweep Kosovo since the 1999 war. NATO troops and international police arrested almost 200 suspects in the previous week's riots, in which ethnic Albanian mobs targeted the Serbian minority, leaving 28 dead. U.N. agencies estimate that almost 4,000 Serbs were displaced, 366 homes destroyed, and 41 churches burned...
Compared to so many other war-torn regions, the Balkan province of Kosovo was progressing nicely. Since NATO bombing ended in 1999, a government with limited powers had been elected. Security was improving. Kosovo Serbs, a minority in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province, could leave their fortified enclaves to shop, work, go skiing. "Things are getting back to normal," a Kosovo Serb restaurateur told Time last month. "People are ready to forget the past and move on." Alas, civil war is not easily forgotten. In a rash of attacks that spread across the province last week like a bushfire, ethnic...
...reply included a telling phrase: he said he and Congress had voted “to build a legitimate international coalition.” Kerry’s line prompted conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan to ask in The New Republic magazine, “Was the Clinton Kosovo war the product of an ‘illegitimate coalition’? Is Kerry now saying that only U.N.-sponsored coalitions are henceforth kosher? What signal does this send to those many countries who did join the coalition...
...dropped onto the ground of post-war Iraq. Like so many history Ph.D.s, Erdmann failed in his search for an academic job. Not one to dwell in the past, Erdmann decided to experience first-hand the sorts of transitions he had studied. He made plans to fly to Kosovo...
Erdmann’s plans to ship to Kosovo were disrupted when he received a phone call from Richard N. Haass, who had just become the director of policy planning in the State Department, as The New Yorker described in a recent feature...