Word: macedonia
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...disaster for President Trajkovski if his forces suffered heavy losses. And if they inflicted civilian casualties in the villages where the rebels are hiding, his new government would collapse, because the ethnic-Albanian parties would walk out - and that could be the prelude to the breakup of Macedonia...
...rebels in Macedonia likely to back down...
...rebels. So the coalition government could fail, either if its forces don't do enough, or if they overdo it. It needs the support of both ethnic communities in order to survive. And most observers had seen this government as the last chance of avoiding a collapse of Macedonia as a multiethnic state. So even now that the deadline has passed peacefully, the future hangs in the balance...
...MACEDONIA Albanian Insurgents Provoke Strong Backlash The risk of renewed ethnic war drew closer when 10 members of the Macedonian security forces were killed in an ambush by Albanian extremists. The assaults triggered retaliatory strikes by government forces, who attacked several Albanian villages with helicopter gunships and artillery. Masked ethnic Macedonian civilians, outraged at the rebel ambush, rampaged through Albanian communities smashing shop windows and beating residents - the first time civilians took to the streets since violence first erupted a month ago. The rebels say they are fighting for Albanian rights but have yet to distinguish their claims from those...
...thugs. On the other hand, he also leaned heavily on the government to avoid declaring a state of war, which could inflame the conflict. The West has clearly been raising the pressure on the NLA in Kosovo, too, which remains the key logistical support base for the guerrillas in Macedonia...