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.
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.
By Chief Correspondent Mirko Klarin & assistant reporter Vjera Bogati
By Chief Correspondent Mirko Klarin & assistant reporter Vjera Bogati
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.
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.
By Mirko Klarin
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
Belgrade’s victory was little more than the combined failure of the Contact Group and the KLA. But Milosevic will continue to exploit internal frictions among both to undermine the peace process.
Kosovo Albanians didn't get independence, NATO troops or peace. Fresh political splits have emerged, and fears of new bloodshed is high. But the returning delegates laid out a strong case that one more conference will bring results.