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...including a 14th century monastery, and engaged NATO troops in running battles. At least 28 people were killed and 600 wounded, including dozens of U.N. and NATO peacekeepers. "These were ethnic attacks, pure and simple," said a diplomat. And as the region knows too well, violence begets violence. In Serbia itself, drunken football fans and others vowing revenge on "Albanian terrorists" torched two mosques, including one from the 17th century that had miraculously survived the Bosnian war. Crowds moved on to smash the front windows at a local McDonald's. About 1,000 Kosovo Serbs have been evacuated to NATO...
Kerry’s repeated statements on the issue of allies raise critical questions. What exactly constitutes a “legitimate coalition?” Kerry supported the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) campaign against Serbia under Milosevic in 1999, in which the U.S. acted without the support of the United Nations Security Council. So we hope it is safe to assume that the senator does not believe that a legitimate coalition always requires a U.N. mandate...
...President Yasser Arafat gave guarded support to the plan, on the condition that it be carried out within the framework of the U.S.-sponsored road map to peace. A first meeting between Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is expected to take place this week. Judging the Judges SERBIA The trial of six Serbs indicted for killing 192 Croat prisoners of war in 1991 opened in Belgrade . The first case to be heard by the newly established special war crimes court, the trial is a test of the Serbian justice system's ability to deal with the country...
...request for a retrial," Tomanovic told Serbian radio station B92. In Belgrade Milosevic's supporters, invigorated after forming an alliance with newly-elected Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, are triumphant. "The trial has collapsed," Ivica Dacic, a former aide to Milosevic and a leader of his Socialist Party of Serbia, told reporters. "Even if it resumes, Milosevic's defense will easily prove that all charges against him are false." But Milosevic's opponents aren't giving up. "The trial is way too important to fall through for technical reasons," says human-rights activist Natasa Kandic. "It has to be pursued...
MEANWHILE IN SERBIA ... Every Vote a Winner Poll-weary Serbs, whose efforts to elect a new President have been thwarted three times in the past 15 months due to low voter participation, can finally see light at the bottom of the ballot box. Parliamentarians got round the 50% turnout threshold by simply abolishing it, paving the way for a new election as early as this month...