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...government on Christmas Eve in 1999, declared himself the winner and dissolved the election commission just as exit polls indicated that Laurent Gbagbo of the Popular Front opposition party was leading. Hundreds of Ivorians took to the streets in a mass uprising that rivaled that of the Yugoslavs against Slobodan Milosevic. Military support for Guei was weak and eventually he fled the country, leaving Gbagbo to declare victory. While this may seem like a success story, it does not end here. The real story is that of a country on the brink of ethnic warfare, severely divided by leaders...
...post-Milosevic world wasn't meant to be like this, but then the idea that the strife in the Balkans was the work of one man was always a dangerous illusion. Slobodan Milosevic may be nothing but a blowhard Serb opposition leader now, but Albanian refugees are once again leaving their homes and a new round of ethnic Serb-Albanian conflict threatens to break out any moment along Kosovo's northern border. At the weekend, the new reformist government in Belgrade set Monday as a deadline for Albanian separatist guerrillas who infiltrated from Kosovo to withdraw from a string...
...Slobodan Milosevic intimidated, oppressed and nearly strangled the people of Yugoslavia, but when the day of reckoning came for the tyrant, he had no choice but to step aside [WORLD, Oct. 16]. This is a good lesson for the elected and military-backed regimes in Africa. It doesn't matter whether a person is voted into office or comes to power through the barrel of a gun; nobody can go against the will of the people forever. USMAN MALAH Lagos...
...relieved that a civil war has not erupted in Yugoslavia [WORLD, Oct. 16], but the issue of Slobodan Milosevic is still front and center. He must be held accountable for his crimes. How can the West give billions of dollars to the new government without a promise that Milosevic will be held liable for the murders and the torture committed by him and his supporters? HAROLD BECKER Toronto...
...Nobody expected the transition from war to peace in Yugoslavia to be as dignified as it was [WORLD, Oct. 16]. Thousands of young Serbs in the streets of Belgrade accomplished what thousands of nato bombs could not. The power of the people overcame that of Slobodan Milosevic. With this history-making event, the people of Yugoslavia at last showed the world the real face of their nation, and we congratulate them. MIROSLAVA MYRA BIHAC Wilmington...