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Many say the current crisis in Kosov first reared its head in 1989, when Kosove, an autonomouws province since its incorporation into Yugoslavia in 1912, was stripped of its autonomy by Slobodan Milosevic, the current president of Serb-dominated Yugoslavia...
...Serb pattern of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other war crimes has continued basically uninterrupted for almost seven years... [The NATO bombing is] signaling to the Belgrade government that they can't continue with their pattern that they've engaged in for the past seven years," he said...
NATO had originally favored the pacifist Rugova over the insurgent KLA, and began dealing with the guerrilla group only after Serb repression had propelled them to center stage. "Washington was originally suspicious of the KLA, but embraced them at Rambouillet," says Waller...
Washington is alarmed at indications that leading Kosovar Albanian moderate Ibrahim Rugova may be moving toward some form of peace deal with Milosevic. Rugova reportedly met Russian diplomats Monday, after Serb TV last week showed him meeting with Milosevic, in footage that was supposedly taken last Wednesday...
...undiluted populist propaganda that is fed relentlessly through the state media. And some of it may simply be old-fashioned pride and nationalism, emotions no less powerful and gripping in Yugoslavia than in any other country. But that loyal core is enough, in the words of one Serb, to allow Milosevic "to steal any election." It also gives him the causes and crises that make him irreplaceable. "We are for Slobo because he is for us," explained Velimir Djurica at his plumbing stall in Belgrade's black market last week. "The foreign boot must...