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Article: Macedonia on brink of civil war
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2001
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Macedonia on brink of civil war
Associated Press
Saturday, August 11, 2001
Skopje, Macedonia -- Warnings that Macedonia is on the brink of
civil war came from all sides Friday as army helicopter gunships
pounded an ethnic Albanian village in retaliation for a deadly mine
attack on a military convoy.
The army's attack on Ljuboten, just north of the capital of
Skopje, threw into jeopardy a tentative peace plan reached only two
days before. The Western-brokered deal is to be signed on Monday.
In a dramatically worded letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, NATO chief Lord Robertson and European Union envoy Javier
Solana, Macedonia's foreign minister appealed for international help
at "this ...