Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolutionaries go, Thaci has a dream resume. Young, attractive and toting a sexy nickname, "the Snake," he is the face of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The glamour is burnished by accomplishment: Kosovar Albanians see him as the man who got them NATO military support and the right to an autonomous existence. And he has become the go-to man in postwar Kosovo. When the generals of the KFOR (Kosovo Force) peacekeeping troops and K.L.A. commanders could not arrive at an agreement to demilitarize the rebel army, they called Thaci to find a solution...
...guardians of Kosovo?s refugees, NATO are a bunch of deadbeats, according to the U.N. An official in charge of coordinating refugee relief efforts tore into the Western alliance Friday, hoping to shame it into handing over desperately needed cash to resettle the half million returned refugees. "The international community spent billions of dollars on a military campaign that was intended to pave the way for the return of refugees," said Soren Jessen-Petersen, the U.N. assistant high commissioner for refugees. "It is a pity they are not prepared to spend what we have asked for, to see the refugees...
...economy and society, then you?re bound to have another explosion in the region," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Dealing with that explosion will prove a lot more expensive than the development aid necessary to rebuild the region." The U.N. may have been left on the sidelines when NATO went to war, but now it's being asked to clean up the debris and heal the wounds ?- and it?s not going to let the West get away with trumpeting a moral victory on the cheap...
Simply following its own instincts would in all likelihood lead Turkey?s strongly nationalist parliament to give Ocalan the rope. But pressure against executing Ocalan will come from Turkey?s NATO allies, particularly in Europe. While Western governments don?t doubt the viciousness of Ocalan?s insurgency, they tend to put it in the context of Turkey?s denial of the cultural and language rights of its Kurdish population: Turkey treats any assertion of a distinct Kurdish identity as a threat to the integrity of the state. This has allowed Ocalan, during his trial, to cloak himself in the mantle...
...Serbs Monday observed the anniversary of their historic defeat in Kosovo by the Ottoman Empire in 1389, one question facing NATO is what exactly compelled Milosevic to surrender the province 610 years later. The impact of the bombing campaign appears to have weighed less on the fighting ability of the Yugoslav army in Kosovo than on the civilian infrastructure in Serbia proper. And many analysts believe it was actually the prospect of a ground invasion by NATO that forced the Serb leader?s turnabout. But the question is about a lot more than apportioning credit: Conventional wisdom holds that bombing...