In The Policy Bunker
Belgrade continues to take a pounding, but only becomes more entrenched. Rather than cracks in the regime, Draskovic's statements about the impact of the bombing may only indicate his own powerlessness.
Belgrade continues to take a pounding, but only becomes more entrenched. Rather than cracks in the regime, Draskovic's statements about the impact of the bombing may only indicate his own powerlessness.
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.
Tribunal Update 122: Last Week in The Hague (19-24 April, 1999)
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.
Podgorica is distancing itself further from Belgrade--and from the Yugoslav Army, which it feels poses a direct threat.