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Prominent political opponents of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agreed last night that free elections and other trappings of democracy are essential to stabilizing the fractious Balkan region...
...Milan Protic, president of "Defense," a Serbian opposition group, said he believes elections will finally give the area a chance to contest the legitimacy of Yugoslav government...
This is the newest insurgency facing the Yugoslav leadership--30 to 70 young men claiming to represent the 70,000 to 80,000 ethnic Albanians still living under Slobodan Milosevic in southern Serbia. Their group's name: Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, or, in Albanian, the UCPMB. Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley...
...lack of sufficient refugee aid contributes to the humanitarian crisis in Yugoslavia. While Kosovo receives humanitarian aid, as does the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, the rest of Serbia still largely lacks it. This is shocking, considering the fact that Serbia hosts almost all of the one million refugees outside the Kosovo province, and that non-Albanians who fled north of Kosovo therefore do not receive sufficient aid. The only organization that extends its aid further than Kosovo in Serbia is the International Orthodox Christian Charities, with some additional assistance coming from the U.N. and International Red Cross. Most...
Therefore, how can the democratic opposition to Milosevic's regime win? While all polls demonstrate that a significant majority of the Yugoslav population opposes Milosevic, the same polls also show people's distrust in the opposition. How can a population rise up when they are not sure of what will come next? The only transfers of Western democracy they have received so far have come in the form of harsh economic sanctions, bombs--and finally in the lack of humanitarian aid for the refugees, lack of compassion for the Serbian victims and what they perceive to be an international unwillingness...