Article: Macedonia on brink of civil war

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 ...

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