Word: macedonian
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...Macedonian army appears to have forced the separatist rebels into a hurried and disorganized retreat from the villages they'd been holding around Tetovo. Is this the end of the insurgency...
...Ensler said she sees the production as a geopolitical stimulus for action. One of the performances involved Macedonian women from various ethnic backgrounds...
...What's important to realize is that these villages are being shelled from Tetovo, which has no direct view of the villages. The Macedonian forces are firing artillery over a blind ridge. They couldn't see what they were firing at; it was a pretty violent affair...
...Realistically, they're unlikely to try a ground offensive. They will probably continue shelling these villages, however. There's no chance of eliminating the insurgency this way. The fighters aren't going to go away or be eliminated by anything the Macedonian army is capable of doing right now. All the Albanians in the area view the shelling as a continuation of historical wrongs against them by Slavic people, and see Macedonians in the same way as the Kosovar Albanians saw the Serbs...
...involvement. The reason is not only because of the insurgency's roots in Kosovo - the policing of which, is, after all, NATO's responsibility - but also because Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and the Kosovar Albanians, among others, all maintain an active interest in the fate of the fragile Macedonian state. A full-scale war over Macedonia's borders is very unlikely to be confined to Macedonians...