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Wednesday Dec 25, 2002 BOMB ATTACKS IN KOSOVO, MACEDONIA
Separate bomb attacks in Macedonia and neighbouring Kosovo killed two
men and injured several others on Wednesday.
Saturday Mar 2, 2002 bbc
'Seven die' in Macedonia shoot-out bbc
Macedonian police say they have shot dead seven rebels - some of whom are thought to be foreigners - near the capital Skopje.
Wednesday, 24 May, 2000
Kosovo sex slave trade warning bbc Pristina: Women are brought in from eastern Europe
UN and aid agencies' staff in Kosovo have been accused of fuelling a trade in forced prostitution. Women sold for $500 The IOM has rescued more than 50 women since last October, a figure that Pasquale Lupoli, head of the IOM in Kosovo, says is "just the tip of the iceberg".
2001
October 31, 2001
Will Serbs Take a Chance on Kosovo? cp Kosovo -- More than two years after air strikes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ended the harrowing of Kosovo by Slobodan Milosevic, Kosovo's Serbs remain beset by anxieties. Perhaps half of all Kosovo's Serbs have left for fear of retribution. Hundreds remain missing and unaccounted for. Half of the Serbs still in Kosovo live in small, fortified enclaves where they feel safe only thanks to the presence of NATO troops. Many Serbs cite these conditions, and the fear of Kosovar independence, as reasons for not voting, on Nov. 17, in the first free general elections Kosovo has ever had. But they are seeing the world upside down. These elections are the great opportunity for them, as they are for us, Kosovo's Albanians.
25/Sep/2001 NATO DECLARES SUCCESS IN MACEDONIAN WEAPONS COLLECTION
NATO says it has surpassed its target for collecting arms from ethnic
Albanian rebels in Macedonia.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/09/25/macedonia010925
Wed 9/19/01 PEACE PROGRESS IN MACEDONIA
NATO says it hopes to finish disarming guerrillas in Macedonia before
its mandate expires next week. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/09/19/macedonia010919
Sat 3/31/01 7:00 PM ARMY, REBELS RENEW FIGHTING IN MACEDONIA
One day after the Macedonian government announced it had eliminated
rebel forces, more fighting broke out between the army and ethnic
Albanian rebels based in Kosovo.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/31/macedonia010331
Fri 3/9/01 7:00 PM NATO STRUGGLES TO CONTROL KOSOVO-MACEDONIA BORDER
Albanian rebels operating on the border between Macedonia and Kosovo
pinned down a Macedonian government convoy on Thursday night, killing a
policeman in the attack.
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/03/09/macedonia010309
25/Nov/2000 MILOSEVIC RETURNS TO POLITICAL STAGE
Despite his ouster from power, Yugoslavia's Socialist Party re-elected
Slobodan Milosevic as its leader during a meeting in Belgrade Sunday.
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