Word: serbia
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...will have become a reality. And that would inevitably force NATO, against all its instincts and inclinations, to escalate its own involvement. The reason is not only because of the insurgency's roots in Kosovo - the policing of which, is, after all, NATO's responsibility - but also because Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and the Kosovar Albanians, among others, all maintain an active interest in the fate of the fragile Macedonian state. A full-scale war over Macedonia's borders is very unlikely to be confined to Macedonians...
...many of the tens of thousands of Serbs who fought knowingly participated in war crimes, though hundreds certainly did. So far, the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague has indicted 49 Serbs from throughout the former Yugoslavia, 15 of whom are now thought to be at large in Serbia...
...them arrested are being thwarted at the highest levels. Resistance is coming, predictably, from the dwindling number of Milosevic loyalists and organized-crime groups allied to the old regime. But it is also coming from members of the new reformist government, many of whom sat by and cheered as Serbia exported war to neighboring republics in the former Yugoslavia. President Vojislav Kostunica, a former academic and self-proclaimed patriot, infuriated the Swiss prosecutor during their January meeting by lecturing her for 30 minutes on the purported bias of her tribunal. Meanwhile, a fresh U.S. ultimatum to Belgrade to show tangible...
Unlike in Germany after World War II, the postwar transition in Serbia has taken place gradually. There was no purge of officials associated with the war effort, only of those linked directly to Milosevic. In fact, the new government has shown few pangs of conscience about Serbia's wartime past. Prime Minister Djindjic recently appointed to the critical post of chief of public security Sreten Lukic, the man who presided over Serbian police during massacres in Kosovo prior to the NATO bombing. Now Lukic, among his new responsibilities, is obliged to arrest and extradite two relatives, Milan and Sredoje Lukic...
...Belgrade, nor is he the villain that he is in the eyes of many Bosnians and Kosovo Albanians. The appointments of Lukic and others were greeted with a yawn. Even figures who have become synonymous with evil in the West have yet to fall from grace in long-isolated Serbia. Not long ago, 500 Belgraders turned out on a midwinter morning to honor the memory of Zeljko (Arkan) Raznjatovic, the notorious paramilitary gangster who was gunned down in a hotel lobby a year ago. Dressed in rich furs and long black overcoats, the mourners snaked past Raznjatovic's gaudy monument...