Rugova wounded, chief trade unionist massacred. Cook: Agreement if NATO enters Kosovo
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Republika
31 March 1999
Armored vehicles over the bodies of the chil[d]ren[?]. Arkan’s men fire on Tropojë. Bread is kne[a]ded[?] with Kosovars’ tears
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NATO commandos enter Kosovo
Milos’s watch stops in R ambuje[?]
Milos’s watch stops in Rambuje
Dalip GRECA
Klintონ[?] stunned Diplo[...]
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Rambuje
Dalip GRECA
Clinton stunned European diplomacy, not to mention Albanian diplomacy. At a time when people were talking about Rambuje, the American president—attacked by the press for playing golf while NATO planes were bombing Serbia—made a move yesterday that took everyone by surprise. While Primakov was patting Slobodan on the back and Yeltsin was declaring Russia’s neutrality in the conflict in the Duma, and Europe was trying to find a kind of compromise stew in the kitchen of its diplomacy, Clinton would take a step forward: now the question is Kosovo’s independence. Such a statement left the martyred Kosovars in a quandary. At the ceremony dedicated to Kristofer, Clinton’s statement burst into the clear sky.
Unfortunately, our boastful Albanian diplomacy was caught off guard, too. Our minister, Milo, had not yet finished his sentence of praise for the diplomatic success when the sensational news spread over the airwaves. Indeed, the head of diplomacy was still learning the rhythms at Rambuje. Milo, everyone’s clock has stopped at Rambuje. Can the Albanians return to Kosovo with Serbian soldiers facing them? Can Serbs look in the eyes those girls and women who were brutally raped? Can all that spilled blood be made to disappear? The villages turned to ash, the cities razed to the ground? Nevertheless, Milo, in a boat with some negotiators from Albania, is playing “Rambuje.”
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Where are the children’s mothers and fathers?
Photo: P. Ilo
The 13-year-old with a torn-out eye and a wounded cheek TESTIFIES
The cruel series of Serbian massacres continues, forcing hundreds of thousands of Kosovars to carry with them the suffering and great tragedy of the Albanian people.
After massacring Kosovo’s intellectual brain, the Serbs are trying to sever the life and blood of Kosovo—its ordinary population—from its body. Exhausted and battered more in spirit than physically, the characters in the tragedy now unfolding in Kosovo turn hopefully toward the Albanian border. The “Asllan Rusi” Sports Palace building in Tirana has welcomed more than 7,000–8,000 more arrivals from Kosovo over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the outskirts of
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Clinton breaks a historic taboo: Independence for Kosovo
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Mediu sends Majko a letter: Open the dormitories and holiday homes to Kosovars
Inside:
• Russia sends warships into the Bosphorus
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• The mysteries of the counterfeit cheque at BKT
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