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...promising solution, proposed by President Boris Trajkovski, is based on an effort that seemed to work last month in neighboring Serbia. The President offered an amnesty to all rebels who laid down their arms, except top commanders, those who organized the rebellion and those who could be proved to have committed war crimes. Ethnic Albanian leader Arben Xhaferi called the proposal "interesting" but said "we should discuss it with those who are waging the war." Unfortunately for Macedonia, the same men who started the war must now be relied...
...SERBIA Border Clashes Fighting flared in the troubled Presevo Valley as Yugoslav security forces clashed with ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo. Government soldiers killed 14 insurgents while storming a rebel stronghold in the village of Oraovica, and a Serbian police officer was killed in a separate incident near Presevo. Near Kosovo's eastern border, the Macedonian government extended the deadline for ethnic Albanian separatists to surrender or face a major offensive. Thousands of civilians were reported to be leaving the area to avoid being caught in the crossfire...
...Where it backed them in Kosovo, NATO has taken a strong stand against the Albanian separatists in Macedonia and southern Serbia. How might this effect the political future of Kosovo, which remains undecided...
...Although its legally it still falls under Yugoslav sovereignty, the territory is effectively a protectorate of the international community through the United Nations, and even after it holds elections in the fall, the international community will have the final say. Still, given the changes that have taken place in Serbia, it may be easier after Kosovo's elections to establish some dialogue over the future between Pristina, Belgrade and other interested parties...
...thing the insurgencies in Macedonia and southern Serbia have done is focused the international community's attention on Albanian nationalism. There are as many Albanians living in the states immediately surrounding Albania - Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, southern Serbia and northern Greece - as there are in Albania itself, and many of them believe it is natural that they should all be part of a single country. Of course to make that happen would require dramatic redrawing of borders, which could only really be achieved through war. The nationalists believe that, with NATO's help, they won the war in Kosovo and were...