Word: serbia
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...Pressure in Washington has begun to mount for a cap on U.S. involvement, as the potential for violent outbreaks grows in the divided town of Mitrovica and in ethnic-Albanian communities just across the border in southern Serbia. That's made Kosovo one of the few areas in which the U.S. is enthusiastic about the planned European Union military force, which Washington hopes will eventually take over a mission that may well require a permanent commitment. "It's perfectly fair for Robertson to say that the region is more stable now that there are thousands upon thousands of NATO troops...
...spattered Renault Le Car chugs to a halt on a dirt road overlooking Serbia's snow-covered Presevo Valley. Out clamber three men dressed in mismatched fatigues, toting an assortment of pistols and grenades. The apparent leader, a deeply tanned, shorter version of Fidel Castro, steps forward. "Welcome," he says, "to Kosovo, Part...
This is the newest insurgency facing the Yugoslav leadership--30 to 70 young men claiming to represent the 70,000 to 80,000 ethnic Albanians still living under Slobodan Milosevic in southern Serbia. Their group's name: Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, or, in Albanian, the UCPMB. Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley...
...lack of sufficient refugee aid contributes to the humanitarian crisis in Yugoslavia. While Kosovo receives humanitarian aid, as does the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, the rest of Serbia still largely lacks it. This is shocking, considering the fact that Serbia hosts almost all of the one million refugees outside the Kosovo province, and that non-Albanians who fled north of Kosovo therefore do not receive sufficient aid. The only organization that extends its aid further than Kosovo in Serbia is the International Orthodox Christian Charities, with some additional assistance coming from the U.N. and International Red Cross. Most...
...Yugoslavia into an autarky, affirming the regime's grip on power. An additional strengthening of Milosevic's power came with the bombing: NATO's destruction of plants that provided jobs, as well as an unacceptable number of bombing accidents that killed over two thousand civilians branded the opposition in Serbia with treason for previously allying with the West. This happened despite their condemnation of NATO's inhumane...