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Dalip GRECA We have shown signs of becoming euphoric in our belief, prompted by NATO’s statements, that Serbia cannot do anything to us because we are under the protective umbrella of the North Atlantic Alliance. From false vigilance, we have moved to total confusion. The most natural question we can ask ourselves at this moment of massacres, humiliations, mass violations of honor, slaughter, but also Serbian resistance and defiance, is: Have we been realistic in our calculations regarding the Serbs? We should ask one another this question face to face. The point is not to sow panic through the question and spread the virus of fear. Perhaps there is still time to put something right, now that the Serbs have begun firing shells onto our land. Three weeks after the day NATO troops bombed Belgrade and the Serbs’ other strategic positions, we think the time has come to ask: Have we, the Albanians, as well as NATO, underestimated the Serbian response, or are the Serbs being kept on their feet only by the last hope of Milošević’s madness? It is difficult for us to distinguish between the two. Milošević has shown that he knows how to calculate down to the last detail. NATO’s attack did not catch him unprepared. First, Albania entered the war with its military infrastructure destroyed. What NATO aircraft are now accomplishing in Albania was accomplished by the Albanians themselves, with Serbian instigation—

Page 16 TESTIMONY: They raped her in front of her father. They shot 15 men and burned them with gasoline. At Shaban’s Teqe, 40 men were killed. 13 dead in one house. The woman who saw 400 people killed. Pentagon testimony: Kosovars are raped in a military camp. 20 of the victims are killed after being brutally abused by soldiers. Pages 7, 9, 16

• Anderoti: I know where Rugova is Page 2 • Away from Milošević’s trap Page 3 • The enigma of UNHCR’s withdrawal Page 4 • The French: 63% in favor of a ground intervention

ANALYSIS: THE POLITICS OF SKOPJE UNDER THE SKOPJE SYNDROME Page 3

• The French: 63% in favor of a ground intervention Page 4 • Xoaxopulos in Durrës: I am against NATO’s intervention. Hajdaraga does not applaud Page 5 • Albania, its neighbors, alliances and non-allies Page 8 • Kosovo children, names that keep Albanian identity alive. The new stars of the catwalks Page 17 • Albania, the Black Friday of a wounded April. • SPORT: Tirana defeats Peqin Page 19 Pages 21, 23 • Kosovars are looking for one another Page 15

Penelope’s dress, the dried-up Qepariz, The Violation of the Clock, Near the millennium, The American flag above the balcony of my house, etc. Penelope’s dress, the dried-up Qepariz, The Violation of the Clock, Near the millennium, The American flag above the balcony of my house, etc. Pages 10–14