Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belgrade was presented with an ultimatum to hand the province over to NATO or face the alliance?s military wrath, Slobodan Milosevic wouldn?t risk a fight. The assumption was based on the Bosnia conflict, where he signed on to the Dayton Peace Accords after NATO began bombing Serb positions...
...even the most nominal Serbian sovereignty. "It will be impossible for us to live together," says Rifat Veseli, a young Kosovar arguing with his friends in tent C-71 at Macedonia's Stenkovec camp. "How can Western leaders expect me to wake up and say good day to a Serb?" While K.L.A. officials are paying lip service to the deal, the likelihood of patching together a political structure for real cohabitation...
...Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj, idol of the hard-liners, could quit the government. Ultimately, Milosevic will have to deal with the dawning realization among his suffering citizenry that after he let Serbia be ruined, he handed over Kosovo. "He betrayed us with war," said Croatian Serb Dragan Miljanic, 62, idling in a Belgrade street. "Milosevic only cares for his own skin...
...months back, the West could have warned Yugoslavia that it would not allow, much less condone, any further dismemberment of the country. It could have helped Yugoslavia on its path toward democracy and European integration. I suppose we are pounding Yugoslavia back to the Stone Age simply because Serb President Slobodan Milosevic allowed himself to be provoked by rebels...
...begin with, even a "friendly" country stuffed with guerrillas can be bad for force protection, as the U.S. learned in Somalia. More immediately, with the Serbs on the way out and NATO not yet in, K.L.A. soldiers spoiling for a fight will soon have free run of the province. Says a senior NATO officer in Macedonia: "We have to be in as soon as the Yugoslav troops pull out in order to fill the vacuum." Otherwise, K.L.A. forces may zip in and wreak vengeance on the estimated 100,000 Serb civilians remaining in the province. While few envision the K.L.A...