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Ethnic warfare hasn't disappeared from the crumbling remains of Yugoslavia; it's simply moved south. The rebellious province of Kosovo today looks dangerously like Bosnia yesterday: Serb soldiers marauding through isolated villages, firing wildly at the inhabitants; corpses of women and children laid out for identification by relatives; stony-faced refugees scrambling for shelter across hillsides covered in scrub oak; belligerent young ethnic Albanian rebels waving Kalashnikovs and grenades at random roadblocks...
Amid the tenuous Balkan peace, the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo is rising in revolt against the heavy-handed nine-year rule of the Serb minority. Tired of domination by Belgrade, alienated by linguistic, cultural and religious differences, the Kosovars, as the Kosovo Albanians are called, have long pushed peacefully for freedom from Serb-run Yugoslavia. Now they insist on nothing less than full independence, but Serbia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, who set the bloody standard for nationalist retaliation when Croatia and Bosnia tried to break away, is just as determined to block that. As the hatred builds and hard...
Until a year or so ago, the estimated 1.8 million Kosovars responded to Belgrade's iron hand largely with passive resistance. Then a small militant group calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army started killing Serb policemen and Kosovar collaborators. By the end of last year, they had carved out several no-go zones in the central region, pushing the Serb police into hasty retreat. Starting Feb. 28, Milosevic ordered a lethal sweep against the strongest of the rebel zones, killing more than 80 Kosovars, including 30 women, children and elderly...
...Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most-wanted men, has solicited the services of Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, one of the world's best-known criminal defense lawyers...
...Anger over last week's massacres by Serb paramilitaries, meanwhile, is boosting Albanian support for the violent actions of the Kosovo Liberation Front. That, together with Serbian intransigence, is likely to dash the best efforts of the international community to keep the peace in the Balkans...