Word: serbs
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...through history for political or financial gain. Although the crimes of the past must always be remembered, an acute political interest in historical misdeeds usually accompanies and fuels the rise of divisive, sectarian politics--one remembers Slobodan Milosevic boosting his power by exploiting the 600-year anniversary of a Serb defeat. Rather than looking to the past to gain wisdom, such approaches rub the public's wounds with the salt of past misdeeds, breeding mutual antagonism and hostility. While politics and race relations are thus contaminated, little progress can be made; cooperation to solve present problems is neglected in favor...
Kosovo, like Korea, is starting to shape up as a permanent military mission for the U.S. and its allies. Tuesday's outbreak of violence in the divided city of Mitrovice, in which four French peacekeepers and a number of Serb and Albanian civilians were wounded in a series of grenade attacks, underlines the fact that stability remains elusive even eight months after the NATO-led peacekeepers first arrived. The violence in the city close to the Serbian border came a day after the U.N. administrator for the province, Bernard Kouchner, urged the Security Council to provide more money...
...about the mission of those troops - NATO is at a crossroads where it's forced to take a policy on the future of Kosovo, and to answer the question of whether it's prepared to put its own men at risk in confrontations with armed militants in both the Serb and Albanian communities...
...officials have blamed Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic for the upsurge in violence around the town, but while Belgrade has certainly armed and organized the remaining Serbs in northern Kosovo, the recent outbreak of violence began with a rocket attack on a bus carrying Serb civilians that most observers saw as a continuation of efforts by elements of the supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army to drive out the territory's remaining Serbs. "Laying all the blame on Milosevic is too easy," says Anastasijevic. "He's certainly involved in arming and organizing the Serbs, but saying Milosevic is the source...
...Albanian protesters marching from Pristina that they won't be allowed to enter Mitrovica, but whether the peacekeepers maintain their resolve in the face of anticipated Albanian defiance remains to be seen. And the situation could easily escalate, since Mitrovica, situated in northern Kosovo, is not an isolated Serb enclave - its Serb community has relatively unfettered access to the border with Serbia proper, and a supply of men and material from Belgrade has emboldened the city's Serb community to stand its ground. But while Serbs and Albanians appear to be spoiling for a fight, NATO may be losing...