Balkans

The Army Takes Sides In Montenegro

The long-running fight between the pro- and anti-Belgrade blocs in Montenegro has a new partisan, the Yugoslav Army, which has sided against the current Western-oriented leadership.

12 Mar 99

Verifying Violence

As the high-stakes effort to get agreement from Belgrade and the KLA continued, so did the war.

12 Mar 99

The Collateral Damage Is Democracy

NATO's bombing campaign represents the failure of Western policy. The real solution in the Balkans is democracy, but with one night's bombing, ten years’ work developing civil society has been all but wiped out.

1 Mar 99

Cleansing Kosovo

Serb forces are expelling Albanians from a horseshoe-shaped territory, from Pec to Prizren to Pristina-burning houses and destroying identity papers. They are not welcome back.

1 Mar 99

Rambouillet and Aftermath: Kosovo Fudge

In the end, fudge won. After an intensive two-week session enduring ‘chateau fever’, and some serious last-minute tension, Serbian and Albanian negotiating parties at the Kosovo talks in France came to a "provisional understanding" on the outlines of a de

26 Feb 99
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