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...Serb nationalism. The inhabitants pride themselves on being as inhospitable to interlopers as the rocky soil is to farming. "We see them as occupiers," a local Serbian Orthodox priest says of the NATO troops in the region. Also convenient for Karadzic is the region's extended, porous border with Serbia and Montenegro that provides ample escape routes in case of a snatch attempt. Most important, the entire region is in the French sector of NATO operations in Bosnia. Statistically, that is the safest place to be: of the 12 indicted war criminals detained by NATO troops, only one was taken...
...Serbia has avoided the wrath of NATO by skillfully modulating its level of violence in Kosovo. But if reports are confirmed that more than 500 civilian corpses were buried in a mass grave, the West may be forced to act. "NATO has been sitting back and waiting for the Serbs to cross a threshold," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'll think long and hard before attacking, because to protect Western pilots NATO will have to disable the Serbs' air defenses, and that means striking throughout Serbia...
...even that, says Calabresi, may not be enough: "Troop withdrawal wouldn't mean much unless Milosevic was prepared to make significant concessions on the political status of Kosovo" -- a notion that sticks in the craw of the nationalist Milosevic, who sent his people to war for a Greater Serbia. So if they're going to avoid another Bosnia debacle, NATO's commanders will need to keep their powder...
There were many ironies. The Bosnian Muslims, generally regarded as the victims, were the most self-destructive and uncooperative members of the group, threatening up to the very last minute to torpedo the peace agreement. Slobodan Milosevic, the President of Serbia, widely perceived to be the original begetter of the tragedy, turned out to be the most constructive--and ostensibly amiable--of the protagonists. And the reluctance of the American military to become involved accounted for some major weaknesses in the final arrangement...
...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 men on both sides pick up their guns, the U.S. and Europe's key powers are once...