Word: yugoslavic
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...Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's agreement Monday night to end attacks on ethnic Albanians made headlines, Harvard students from the region said they doubt he will keep his word...
...plight is familiar across the Yugoslav province. From Podujevo in the north almost to the suburbs of the capital of Pristina, Kosovo is ablaze as Serbian security forces pursue their deadly dismantling of the ethnic-Albanian rebellion. First comes artillery fire, targeting suspected Kosovo Liberation Army bases in a village. Then armored infantry rolls in to take over the town. Finally foot soldiers arrive, looting and burning, to strike terror among ethnic-Albanian villagers. Despite the first snows in the mountains, hundreds of thousands flee their homes. Some find shelter with relatives, others in neighboring Albania or Montenegro, but tens...
...Kosovo is far and away the worst of the current crises. Vowing not to permit another slaughter like Bosnia's, the NATO allies threatened Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last June with air strikes unless he halted his security forces' attacks on the rebellious Albanians. Even if Clinton hadn't been bedeviled by scandal, the threat would have been difficult to carry out. France refused to go along with military action unless the U.N. Security Council approved, and Russia promised to veto any resolution that authorized...
...very concerned about the situation in Kosovo, in the Yugoslav Serbian Republic. The province of Kosovo has about 2 million people, more than 90 percent of whom are ethnic Albanians. Using the excuse of fighting the Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the Serbian Army (15,000 troops) and police (6,000 troops) have systematically attacked innocent Albanian civilians whose only crime has been their existence in their own homeland...
...tempers on both sides are exploding as the Kosovars demand full independence and Milosevic bids to bring the rebels to heel. Since March, when the Yugoslav army began an offensive against the guerrillas known as the Kosovo Liberation Army, about 300 people have died and an estimated 65,000 have been driven from their homes. When Holbrooke arrives, 50,000 Serb forces and several thousand K.L.A. fighters are skirmishing all over the province, targeting civilians in one another's villages...