Word: medvedja
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This is the newest insurgency facing the Yugoslav leadership--30 to 70 young men claiming to represent the 70,000 to 80,000 ethnic Albanians still living under Slobodan Milosevic in southern Serbia. Their group's name: Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, or, in Albanian, the UCPMB. Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley...
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