Word: liberationism
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If only NATO had acted earlier. in 1998 common sense, international law, regional stability and humanitarian considerations dictated that Albania's border with Kosovo be sealed to stem the flow of weapons to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo would have been spared much of the ensuing violence, and the K.L.A...
Since early April, the Kosovo Liberation Army has been locked in its biggest, most important battle: an attempt by many of its most elite, experienced soldiers to open a corridor into Kosovo through the snow-swept mountains of northern Albania. Last week hundreds of fighters attacked and captured a small...
The Yugoslav leadership has largely tried to repress the ethnic Albanians, but, according to Crawford, when the Kosovar Liberation Army arose a year ago, it gave Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic an excuse to use actual ethnic cleansing campaigns.
But if the strategy for war is relatively clear, the plan for halting it isn't. NATO's corridors, so recently filled with debates about whether to go into Kosovo, now echo with talk about how to get out. "Nobody has a clear crystal ball on this," admits an alliance...
Kosovo is not a place preparing for peace. Every day the province is filled with awful violence. NATO warplanes are slamming Serbian troops with tons of munitions, guided by tiny drones that hum overhead. Deep in the Kosovo hills, the Kosovo Liberation Army is fighting defensive battles, trying to conserve...