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...recent conflict began last March when President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic deployed Serbian troops to crush ethnic Albanian rebels fighting for the Kosovo Liberation Army...
...Serb leader to meet the already extended deadline for withdrawing his forces -- October 12. But reports of continued fighting in the territory highlight a substantial flaw in the pact: It doesn't include the pro-independence guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army. KLA snipers have killed a handful of Serbian police this week, provoking a return of Serb troops and armor to some parts of Kosovo. "The Kosovar Albanians are deeply frustrated that the U.S. didn't follow through," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They're able to undermine the accord by continuing attacks on Serb targets...
Milosevic has admitted to Western officials in the past that he was surprised and disturbed by the missiles that hit around the Serbian city of Banja Luka in 1995. "It made quite an impression," says an official. "He realizes that we could take out part of a room or a corner of a building with a cruise missile." That nervousness shows in the current negotiations over Kosovo. At one point, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke pressed Milosevic to move his army trucks in Kosovo back into garrison. "Why?" Milosevic shot back. "So your missiles can bomb them...
Milosevic agreed to remove his troops from the Albanian region and to end the Serbian attacks in the province of Kosovo. If the promise is fulfilled by Friday, NATO said it will call off airstrikes that it promised if the president did not comply with United Nations (U.N.) demands...
...world has stood by silently for the past year while the Serbian army has massacred Albanian civilians in the province of Kosovo. Detailed accounts of the horrific bloodshed, accompanied by graphic photographs, have been proliferated over the Web. Daily news reports from the region have been bounced off satellites and beamed into our living rooms. But, like countless generations before us facing similar tragedies, we have not answered the cry of a persecuted people...