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TIME.com: Fighting in Macedonia has flared up again after another brief lull, and the government has launched offensives on two fronts against Albanian separatists. Is the government winning...
...anti-guerrilla operation in the mountains, and there is always a great danger that if they inflict civilian casualties in the Albanian villages where the rebels are hiding, the fragile unity government that involves the main ethnic-Albanian parties could collapse, which could seal the fate of multiethnic Macedonia...
...return, with NATO approval, of Yugoslav troops into the last section of the "Ground Safety Zone" established in southern Serbia at the end of the Kosovo conflict (where Albanian separatists had been waging a renewed campaign) is going to hurt the cause of the rebels in both Macedonia and southern Serbia...
...long term, the corruption problem may hurt Macedonia even more than the extremists. And of course the economy is in really poor shape, with huge unemployment. Many young people simply don't see any future in studying or working, and that's fertile ground for the growth of extremism in both the Albanian and Macedonian Slav communities. But the government is still standing two weeks after it was created, and it will probably hold on for a while. If they manage to avoid serious civilian casualties in the offensive against the rebels, they'll buy some time...
...Where it backed them in Kosovo, NATO has taken a strong stand against the Albanian separatists in Macedonia and southern Serbia. How might this effect the political future of Kosovo, which remains undecided...