Word: serb
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...dead of Kosovo can get no peace, and the outlook for the living isn't much better. Yesterday, ethnic Albanians exhumed the corpses of massacre victims hurriedly buried in mass graves by the Serb authorities. Not surprisingly, today they were in no mood to meet with senior leaders of the Belgrade government who arrived offering dialogue...
Regarding "Albanians Evade Serb Authorities" (News, March 4): Many people do not know that since October ethnically Albanian students in Kosova have been organizing peacefully to protest the Serbian government's refusal of education and other basic human rights. Students at campuses across the nation are rallying in support of this non-violent protest movement in an effort to stop the violence...
...Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, bears primary responsibility for the coming conflagration, as he does for the war in Bosnia. He is behind the repression visited on the ethnic Albanians by the ruling Serb minority, which has a fondness for torturing confessions out of the rebels. Sitting in his family's small apartment in downtown Pristina, Alban Neziri, 23, coolly, methodically narrates his harrowing story. He says he was arrested last February as a suspected founding member of the K.L.A. and during his 10 months in prison was repeatedly tortured. "At the beginning, they beat me with plastic batons...
...more offhand and random the brutality of the Serb rulers, the stronger the support for the emerging nationalist K.L.A. The Vojnik uprising looks like the start of a bloody, protracted guerrilla war that could spill over into the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where 350 American troops are stationed and where ethnic Albanians also seek independence...
...more immediate danger is of a brutal bloodbath in Kosovo. Since 1991, when Milosevic cracked down in the province, some 200 ethnic Albanians have died. Now the Serb death toll is rising in step. On both sides, even the most devoted seekers of peace--and there are fewer and fewer of them--see little chance of avoiding a war. In Vojnik, where Bahri is home from the hospital and recovering from his leg wound, the villagers are already there. "The Serb authorities have lost control," says hoxha Abdyl Krasniqi. "But you can't say we are liberated...