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...There's no simple answer, especially now that the most recent conflict - between Kosovo-backed Albanian insurgents and Macedonian forces around the northwestern town of Tetovo - is smoldering rather than blazing. What is certain is that nothing highlights Macedonia's problems as starkly as armed conflict, which is why the international community is scrambling to prove that whatever its grade on conflict prevention, it can do better in conflict management...
MACEDONIA Widening Conflict Macedonian security forces struggled to contain the insurgency by ethnic Albanian rebels as fighting spread to the center of Tetovo and the outskirts of the the capital, Skopje. Government troops shot dead two civilians in Tetovo after they appeared to hurl a handgrenade at a police checkpoint, and Macedonian artillery fire injured 10 civilians in the hills above Tetovo. Rebel leaders observed an overnight cease-fire but later injured two policemen in separate mortar and grenade attacks near the villages of Gracane and Caska. The U.S. said it would send spy planes to monitor rebel activities...
...shell was part of an attempt by the Macedonian government to strike at rebel targets above the town of Tetovo, site of the Balkans' newest insurgency. While it succeeded in panicking Albanian civilians, it left the rebels themselves more or less unfazed. Subsequent government reports that the insurgents were laying down their weapons and fleeing toward the Kosovo border proved groundless. By week's end they were back, striking at police positions in Tetovo and drawing a furious response from army tanks and artillery. "The fighters will remain in their positions," Fazli Veliu, a spokesman for the rebels, told TIME...
...Back in Tetovo, police and army forces continue to pound suspected rebel sites. While NATO has refused to offer troops, it is providing intelligence, training and communications assistance. The Bush Administration said on Saturday that it would help improve Macedonia's "military capabilities." In Sipkovica the day after last week's shelling, 20 children huddled in a darkened cellar, waiting for the bombs to start falling again. In the gloom, infants and their mothers cried out in alarm as word spread of a new bombardment. "The bombs are coming from the sky!" exclaimed Zeqige Rexhepi, 40, mother of five, wringing...
...tactical balance appears to have shifted decisively in favor of the government, in large part because it suddenly deployed helicopter gunships in the hills around Tetovo. How did this come about...