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DIED. IBRAHIM RUGOVA, 61, President of U.N.-administered Kosovo and a leader of the decades-long quest by the province's ethnic Albanian majority for independence from Serbia; of lung cancer; in Pristina...
...NETHERLANDS "Belgrade Decided to Destroy Kosovo" In dramatic testimony at Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes trial in the Hague, President Ibrahim Rugova of Kosovo said, "Belgrade clearly decided to destroy Kosovo through violence and war" by "a calmly done cleansing of the population." Rugova, who sparred verbally with the former Yugoslav leader, is the highest-ranking prosecution witness so far. The charges against Milosevic include responsibility for the deaths of more than 900 Kosovars and the expulsion of 80,000 in a crackdown that drew in NATO forces...
...after Denmark's 4 million voters rallied behind allied parties seeking to protect the country's generous welfare system. KOSOVO Elections, at Last Ethnic Albanians turned out in high numbers to vote for the province's first democratically elected assembly, though turnout among minority Serbs was relatively low. Ibrahim Rugova, whose Democratic League of Kosovo took more than 46% of the vote, called for Kosovo's full independence "as soon as possible." But U.N. officials said the province will remain part of Serbia until a political settlement can be reached. In the meantime, it will continue to be administered...
...Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue to set the agenda by their cross-border military adventurism...
...element in Kosovar Albanian politics was, of course, dealt a serious blow in local elections throughout the territory three weeks ago, which saw a landslide victory for the party of moderate leader Ibrahim Rugova. That suggests that the majority of the ethnic-Albanian community are willing to pursue their desire for independence via negotiation with the new regime in Belgrade. But for those KLA hard men who remain determined to use any means necessary to win independence for Kosovo and unite it with Albania, NATO troops may become an obstacle in their path. And that could make the peacekeeping mission...