Article: Balkans conflict: Macedonian villages blasted after rebel ambush Spectre of civil war returns as ethnic Albanian fighters kill two soldiers and the government responds with rocket attacks

Article: Macedonian forces push back rebels
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 26, 2001 ;     669 words ...Macedonian forces push back rebels Artillery barrage, tank advance start attack By PETER ... could just as easily pitch this increasingly polarized country into civil war. "After an 11-day siege (around Tetovo), we could have lost ...

Article: On-again, off-again Balkan war: Macedonian forces ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  August 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... earlier and the fear that the country is on the verge of civil war. Normally a voice of moderation, at the end of last week ... withdrew. We have Tetovo fully under the control of the Macedonian forces. And now we can sign the agreement." But a short trip ...

Transcript: Interview: Nicholas Wood discusses a staged killing by ...
NPR All Things Considered;  May 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 2004 Interview: Nicholas Wood discusses a staged killing by Macedonian forces designed to impress US officials related to the war on terror ... nationalists, and Macedonia had just come out of almost a civil war with an ethnic Albanian minority in the country. And what ...

Article: Perspective: Will there ever be peace in the Balkans?; As ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... diplomats. Though the Albanian rebels are relatively few, Macedonian forces have mobilised in the now deserted streets of Tetovo to fire ... be ruled by an independent Bosnian government. A savage civil war erupted between Serb, Croat and Bosnian-Muslim neighbours ...

Article: Macedonian forces beat back ethnic Albanians
The Scotsman;  March 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... situation. "For ten years, fear of civil war in this country acted as a stabilising ... because everyone wanted to avoid it. When civil war seems inevitable it becomes a massive ... your own side and the opposition. When civil war looks to be on the way people bring out ...

Article: Fighting between Macedonian forces, ethnic Albanian ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... gunfire reached a crescendo in the late afternoon. It added to fears that the tiny country of 2 million could be headed for a civil war between majority Macedonian Slavs and minority ethnic Albanians. "It is getting worse, so we are getting out," declared ...

Article: Rebel stronghold hit by military; Truce broken by ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  June 23, 2001 ;     611 words ... ... security chief Javier Solana, a former NATO secretary-general who has taken a lead role in efforts to head off another Balkan civil war, made an unscheduled stop in Skopje to try to overcome an impasse on a plan put forward by Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski ...