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Since the collapse of Communist Yugoslavia, Kelmendi waged a campaign against violence and to establish a free press...
...repeatedly from giddy euphoria to violent despair and back. But despite the ethnic violence, lynchings and looting in major cities and the carnage in seceding East Timor, this sprawling archipelago of 210 million people has not disintegrated into ungovernability or civil war. Some had predicted the world's next Yugoslavia, but after last week, Indonesia had instead completed its graduation from a military-backed dictatorship to the world's third largest democracy (after India and the U.S.). "Indonesia is born again," said military historian Salim Said. "This is a chance to finally see if civilians can run the country...
...dramatic consequences of that fact. Talks on Montenegro?s proposals to substantially increase its autonomy failed to produce any agreement Tuesday, but both sides pledged to keep talking in order to avoid plunging the region into a new war. Despite the Montenegrins? threat to secede from Yugoslavia if they?re not granted substantial independence from Belgrade, neither side is ready for such a confrontation. "It?s like an unhappy marriage in which the husband and wife are being kind to each other because they?re aware that any move to change the situation could result in a messy divorce...
After returning to the United States, Barron and Leaning kept in touch with the Zejnullahus. When NATO bombing of Serb military installations in Yugoslavia began this year, the two went on a PHR mission to the Balkans to locate the many doctors and children who they had met during their investigations...
...blithely bombed our way into Yugoslavia because the country we needed to bludgeon is of no strategic significance. We did not bomb our way into Indonesia because that country is of immense strategic significance...