Word: serbs
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...There is no surprise in continuing attacks on Serb civilians in Kosovo by Albanian extremists. This was not the first, nor will it be the last. But what was significant about this attack was the technique - a remote-controlled antitank mine buried in the asphalt. This goes way beyond the concept of "random revenge attacks." It required a high level of technical sophistication and organization. And that means it was a message to KFOR, too - that the NATO-led peacekeeping force is also vulnerable. Those who carried out this attack could just as easily have blown up a KFOR vehicle...
...from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under domestic pressure not to capitulate to all the U.N.?s demands, but which also wants to develop credibility on the international stage...
Unlike many of her fellow accused, Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic has voluntarily surrendered herself at the Hague tribunal to stand trial for war crimes. Why did she go willingly...
...could serve his sentence in Serbia, because the Hague may not require that he remain in custody there - or there may be some kind of a compromise in which Milosevic is tried for war crimes jointly by the Hague tribunal and the Yugoslavian prosecutor. This is the compromise the Serb authorities are pushing for. But whatever the outcome, it's likely that he'll first go to trial in Belgrade...
...Situation Report: Slobodan Milosevic may be nothing more than an irrelevant opposition leader now, but the Balkans' woes are from over. Kosovo's Albanians still want independence, but most of NATO is inclined to keep the territory nominally under Serb sovereignty although autonomous for all practical purposes. European NATO powers fear full-blown independence will link Kosovo with Albania, and prompt new conflicts throughout the region. But recent attacks on NATO forces by Albanian nationalists seeking to colonize a tiny strip of ethnic-Albanian inhabited Serb territory just across the border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians...