Targeting The Moderate
A reluctant politician, Fehmi Agani emerged as a leading proponent of nonviolence and Albanian-Serb dialogue. Until his last train ride.
A reluctant politician, Fehmi Agani emerged as a leading proponent of nonviolence and Albanian-Serb dialogue. Until his last train ride.
This is not a good time to be Albanian in Belgrade. Beatings are followed by the question: "Why don't you go to Albania?" Many have fled.
In the first days of the war, the offices of Pristina's leading daily were destroyed and all of its journalists scattered. But the team has reassembled and relaunched from exile, and Kosovo Albanians once again have a voice.
The war in Kosovo is throwing Albanians together. Expelled and bussed and broke, they are herded from place to place - bringing with them all of their terrible tales.
KLA arms caches, Serbian pro-Milosevic demonstrators, and friction between Skopje and the West. The signs are ominous for the fragile republic.
Since 1992, the dispute over this uninhabited peninsula has remained low key but deadlocked, and talks got nowhere -- leaving Milosevic another card to play against Croatia and Montenegro. This week, he checked his hand.
Tribunal Update 121: Last Week in The Hague (12-17 April, 1999)
The influx of Kosovo refugees has caused ethnic tensions to rise. But for now, Macedonia's ethnically mixed government is maintaining a united front.