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...public hardening of its position, officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Wednesday demanded the immediate transfer of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague. A tribunal official arrived in Belgrade Wednesday for a series of legal meetings with justice officials to make the tribunal's position clear and to pass on Milosevic's arrest warrant and indictment to the relevant authorities...
...decade ago, the feared endpoint was war in Macedonia. Every knowing pundit said the conflict that first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear by diplomats and human rights monitors who made...
...international community did something, but perhaps not enough. They ladled an alphabet soup of international bureaucracy onto the potential trouble spot, beginning with "fyrom," the initials of the awkward circumlocution - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - meant to assuage the Greeks' opposition to the use of the very name Macedonia. Then there was unprofor, the United Nations Protection Force - later unpredep, for U.N. Preventive Deployment - which put a Nordic battalion and an American task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently...
...Obviously that crucial message is more easily delivered when bullets aren't flying. When Macedonia was the sole ex-Yugoslav Republic untouched by conflict, no one wanted to rock the boat, despite ample warnings that relations between the majority Slavs and the 23% Albanian minority were volatile. "It was not the international will to hold the Macedonian government strictly to account on human rights," says Mark Thompson, Balkans program director for the International Crisis Group. Observes Henryk Sokalski, the Polish U.N. special representative who headed unpredep from 1995 to 1998: "We got a lot of visits and many great words...
...Sipkovica a former bricklayer and political dissident shifts his rifle uncomfortably as he tries to explain his grievance. Like several local N.L.A. commanders, he was imprisoned by the old Yugoslav regime in the 1980s for trying to start an Albanian political party. Now 63, he considers the new government no improvement. "The Slavs say we are the problem, but they are the ones trying to destroy our nation," he says, referring to the ethnic-Macedonian majority. "We are just trying to defend ourselves...