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...Many of the rank-and-file guerrillas and regional commanders openly express their enthusiasm for a "Greater Albania" - the mirror image of Slobodan Milosevic's "Greater Serbia" campaign, which spawned separatist military campaigns among the Serb minorities of Serbia's neighboring states. But their leaders insist they got most of what they wanted out of the Skopje political agreement, and the time has come to put down their weapons. And those leaders have plenty of reasons to crow about the outcome. Three months ago, NATO leaders were still denouncing the NLA as "terrorists" and "murderers in the hills"; now fresh...
...insurgent's career, the more difficult it becomes to contemplate disarming - and that's precisely the problem with the IRA and ETA. Ireland and Spain today are two of the fastest growing economies of Europe, and young people reared in the increasingly prosperous EU culture are increasingly disdainful of separatist struggles, much less those pursued by arms. The hard men of the IRA and ETA are relics of a past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift from those...
...print up rate cards. (For $2, you get a supporter for three hours; banners and chants are extra.) The question is whether Megawati can maintain a semblance of order. She has stronger backing than Wahid in parliament. And the military likes her: they share a common abhorrence of the separatist fever sweeping through Aceh and Papua (the former Irian Jaya) provinces. Her dynastic birthright helps too. Megawati is the daughter of Sukarno, the country's founding President...
...year ban on germ warfare, was effectively scuppered as U.S. representatives at the U.N. meeting in Geneva claimed it would not achieve its goals and would damage American interests. SPAIN Tourists Targeted Police in the southern tourist resort of M?laga defused a powerful car bomb planted by the Basque separatist organization ETA. The group had telephoned a warning that the bomb, which contained around 60 kg of explosives, had been left in the city's airport car park. Popular tourist destinations were on alert after suspected ETA member Olaia Castresana blew herself up as she handled explosives in the Mediterranean...
...thuggery is somewhat mixed. NATO showed great resolve in forcing the Serbs to accept the Dayton accord on Bosnia and later in getting them out of Kosovo, but the alliance has proved rather wimpish when its peacekeeping troops are confronted by continued ethnic cleansing (as in Kosovo) or new separatist insurgencies (as in the Presevo Valley and Macedonia). The current events in Macedonia are a reminder that the Balkan wars are far from over - and that the Srebrenica tragedy carries important lessons for the here...