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Article: Macedonia sliding to the brink of civil war Hopes for the signing of a peace deal are sinking as the violence escalates, reports Christian Jennings in Skopje
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 12, 2001
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MACEDONIA APPEARED to be sliding closer to full-scale civil war
yesterday with escalating battles between government forces and
Albanian rebels severely reducing hopes of a peace deal being signed
tomorrow.
Ilinka Mitreva, Macedonia's Foreign Minister, called on the
international community to take more robust action against the
guerrillas from the self-styled National Liberation Army whose
attacks on the army have spread across the whole of the northern
half of the country. The authorities declared yesterday a day of
national mourning after eight soldiers were killed in a mine blast
outside Skopje on Friday.
In a week of intense clashes, 20 soldiers and policemen, at least
five rebels and ...