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...first time such a tribunal had ever indicted a sitting head of state, but the monstrosity of what has happened in Kosovo, the tribunal explained, demanded dramatic action. The evidence is easy to see, both inside Kosovo and outside its borders. Kosovars in the refugee camps of Macedonia and Albania have few comforts other than a respite from life on a battlefield. Inside Kosovo, there is no distinction between combatants and noncombatants. It is a place of total...
Meanwhile, NATO is getting ready to pass the baton from the flyboys to the doughboys, building up its troop presence in Macedonia and preparing to divide Kosovo into five sectors, with the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy and France each overseeing a sector. Absent: the Russians, who got Milosevic and NATO to shake hands and who have have some much-needed credibility as babysitters of Kosovo's Serb minority (having not just finished bombing them). But NATO doesn't want any partners -- chief Javier Solana insisted on "Fox News Sunday," that "there will be one commander" of the postwar force...
Although Barron and Leaning do not know if and when they will return to the Balkans, PHR is committed to continuing its aid to the doctors of Kosovo. The organization is currently working to set up a physician's network in Albania and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia...
Meanwhile, NATO this week begins debating a proposal to deploy 50,000 troops in Macedonia as an eventual peacekeeping force for Kosovo. The alliance had originally planned a 28,000-strong force, but that was before the widespread destruction caused by the war. "It should be pretty easy to get NATO to move those forces into position for a peacekeeping mission premised on Milosevic's accepting their entry into Kosovo," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And the alliance is unlikely at this stage to even debate the idea of sending them in without Milosevic's permission." So despite talk...
These days, Ajeti might have to settle for George Clooney. By all accounts, NATO is doing an impressive job of looking after some 750,000 displaced Kosovars now under the alliance's care in the Serbian border regions of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina: plenty of tents and blankets, food and water, and even battery chargers for cell phones so that refugees can contact their relatives. In some camps, makeshift convenience stores have sprung up, selling soda, meat pies and other homelike conveniences at affordable Balkan prices. But as international aid workers fight traditional camp scourges such as cholera...