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...telephoned a warning that the bomb, which contained around 60 kg of explosives, had been left in the city's airport car park. Popular tourist destinations were on alert after suspected ETA member Olaia Castresana blew herself up as she handled explosives in the Mediterranean resort of Torrevieja. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Dangerously close to all-out war, the two sides in the Macedonian conflict gave way to persuasion and declared another cease-fire. Under pressure from international mediators, rebel ethnic Albanian fighters, who had occupied the area around Tetovo, north of the capital Skopje, began to withdraw...
...forcing the Serbs to accept the Dayton accord on Bosnia and later in getting them out of Kosovo, but the alliance has proved rather wimpish when its peacekeeping troops are confronted by continued ethnic cleansing (as in Kosovo) or new separatist insurgencies (as in the Presevo Valley and Macedonia). The current events in Macedonia are a reminder that the Balkan wars are far from over - and that the Srebrenica tragedy carries important lessons for the here...
Western diplomats may have brought Macedonia's flat-lining cease-fire back from the dead for the umpteenth time, but few are optimistic about the prospects for saving the patient. Ethnic-Albanian guerrillas began withdrawing Thursday from territory they seized in and around the second city of Tetovo, and plans were underway to bus back some of the Macedonian civilians forced by the rebels to flee their homes. And while that may have averted the immediate threat of an inevitably bloody offensive by the Macedonian security forces to drive out the insurgents, the latest cease-fire may be little more...
...Trashing the Mac in Macedonia...
...bitterness engendered by the conflict militates against the government backing down from its rejection of Western-authored constitutional changes designed to improve the position of ethnic-Albanians in Macedonia - specifically, the proposal that Albanian be recognized as a second official language in public life. Macedonia's Slavic majority sees that proposal as a reflection of an agenda to ultimately split Macedonia, which they believe is the ultimate objective of the rebel National Liberation Army. And the trashing of Western embassies and a McDonalds outlet in Skopje earlier this week was a stark reminder that ordinary Macedonians no longer trust Western...