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...Andrew Purvis: It's difficult to tell at this point. The army rolled into Tetovo today. They're pounding the hillsides with heavy artillery, and there's talk of an offensive into the mountains sometime in the next couple of days to dislodge the guerrillas. But all the indications are not very promising. The rebels are dug in, and even if they're pushed back by an offensive, they won't simply go away...
...There was a major protest over the weekend by Macedonian Slavs from Tetovo, calling for civilians to be armed. On the Albanian side in Macedonia, the political leadership seems to be playing a double game. On the one hand they're making conciliatory statements to the Macedonian audience. On the other hand, when they're talking to foreign journalist they're calling for things Macedonia will never accept, such as creating a federation. The government won't accept this solution, because they see it as an inevitable step toward the disintegration of Macedonia and the creation of a Greater Kosovo...
TIME.com: Macedonia is turning into the next Balkan nightmare faster than anyone expected. Albanian rebels fought pitched battles Friday with the Macedonian police and army for control of Tetovo, the country's second city. Has a civil war become inevitable...
...crisis maintains its present momentum, pretty soon we'll be seeing those columns of refugees on the roads that have become so familiar as a symbol of Balkan wars. And the worst nightmare could be the spillover of what we're seeing in Tetovo into the capital, Skopje, which has large Albanian and Slav communities. In the cities, these conflicts are the bloodiest, pitching neighbor against neighbor. And throughout Macedonia, the demarcation lines between Macedonian Slavs and Albanians are even more fuzzy than they were in Bosnia...
...They face a major dilemma now, because the rebels appear to be holding a suburb of Tetovo, and they appear to have the support of a lot of local people. So the Macedonians will either have to use overwhelming force to restore control over the town, which would risk serious casualties on both sides in heavy street fighting - and the West is urging them to show restraint - or else they'll simply have to accept the situation that they've lost a piece of territory and concentrate on preventing similar things from happening elsewhere in Western Macedonia where there...