Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO-authored Serb withdrawal in Kosovo looks less like peace than it does a time-out in a prizefight. Serb troops continued to leave the territory Tuesday, and the irregulars of the Kosovo Liberation Army moved straight back into the towns the Serbs had occupied. As if to emphasize that this is far from over, Serb paramilitaries left the town of Malisevo and then suddenly swept back in a few hours later for a firefight with the KLA. "If the Serbs pull out enough troops, NATO will suspend its activation order for air strikes," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief...
...Americans crazy enough to bomb us over our security police?" he asked. "Yeah," Holbrooke quietly replied, "we are." The deal he won in Belgrade, which calls for a Serbian pullback and 2,000 "verifiers" to help assure a peace, comes from Holbrooke's understanding of how the Serb leaders think, a process of brutal rationality...
...former Yugoslavia, the vast majority of the people derive no personal benefit from the hostility that exists between their nation and much of the West, and in fact are economically hurt by it. However, the State Department seems to treat the former Yugoslavia only in terms of the Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to whose impudently hostile policies it reacts by increasing the hostile stance of the United States. The resulting impression of a nation embattled against a huge Western power, with one man courageous enough to oppose that power, benefits that one man immensely--the same man whose policies...
Animosity between Serbs and Albanians, which has been a fact of life for years, may be difficult to repair, especially after reported Serb atrocities. According to The New York Times, about 250,000 ethnic Albanians have been forced from their homes in the past five months, leaving refugees homeless and without food...
...monitors deployed by the West to verify Serb compliance also present their own set of problems. "They immediately become potential hostages for Milosevic and make it even more difficult for NATO to attack," says Dowell. So when the next deadline for Serb withdrawal passes, expect another extension...