Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Protest broke out over the government's handling of a cease-fire with ethnic Albanian rebels LUXEMBOURG Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski remains in control in the country after a night of tensions in the capital Skopje, the European Union said on Tuesday. "We have received assurances that the president and government are in full control of the military and the police," Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said on behalf of the 15-nation bloc. Sweden holds the EU's rotating presidency. "An address to the people is planned later today by Trajkovski and the government," she added. An EU-led bid to bring in a cease-fire with ethnic Albanian rebels sparked fierce protests in the capital Skopje and heavy fighting elsewhere. ALSO Macedonian president flees rioters "Developments today show how serious the situation is but it is still obvious there is no military solution... We hope everybody will realise the only way forward is to refrain from violence and to have legitimate dialogue through the political representatives," Lindh said. UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw has called off a trip to Macedonia after the protests in Skopje. Straw had been due to visit the crisis-hit country this week.
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Extractions: Council for Research Into South-Eastern Europe of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Following their own interests and aims to conquer and partition the European part of Ottoman Turkey, the neighbouring Balkan states Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro decided to start a war. The Treaty between Serbia and Bulgaria signed on March 12th 1912 (with a secret annexe) included a possibility for the transformation of Macedonia into an autonomous region and anticipated the arbitration of the Russian Tsar. In such form, this agreement was a compromise to avoid the territorial separation and partition of Macedonia. After Greece and Montenegro joined the agreement, a Balkan Alliance was formed and it immediately began preparations for a war against the Ottoman Empire. In autumn 1912 the Balkan allies declared war on Turkey. However, new bloodshed started soon among the Balkan allies who could not reach an agreement as how to partition the territories taken over from Turkey. The partition was carried out by force of arms and sanctioned by the Bucharest Peace Treaty signed on August 10th, 1913 according to which all the Balkan states expanded their territories. Macedonia was not only denied its autonomy which had originally been one of the causes of the war against Turkey, but it was forcefully divided and partitioned by the neighboring Balkan states. Greece seized the biggest, southern part of Macedonia, Serbia won the central Vardar region and the Pirin part with the Strumica vicinity was given to Bulgaria.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Ojdanic will give himself up to The Hague tribunal, his lawyer has said BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Two of the 23 Yugoslav suspects wanted by the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague have said they will surrender to the tribunal. General Dragoljub Ojdanic and former Croatian Serb rebel leader Milan Martic were on a list released by the Yugoslav government as the most-wanted war crimes suspects sought by The Hague. Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic suggested that all of them would be hunted down if they did not surrender before the deadline, which runs out this week. Ojdanic, who commanded the army during the 1999 NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, is charged by the tribunal with alleged war crimes in Kosovo. Martic allegedly ordered retaliatory missile fire against the Croatian capital, Zagreb, that killed several civilians in 1995. Since his indictment by the U.N. court in 1995, Martic has been hiding in Bosnia and Serbia.
Extractions: Discussion Questions Understanding Nonviolent Conflict ... Lesson Plans The information below outlines Balkan history, providing a basis for understanding the ethnic tensions in the region and the roots of Serbian feelings of victimization which were exploited by Slobodan Milosevic in his rise to power. Sorting Out the Balkans The Balkan Peninsula is a land of complex ethnic patterns and influences. This wedge-shaped area of land includes Albania, Bulgaria, mainland Greece, and the European section of Turkey, parts of Romania and most of the former Yugoslavia. Collectively, these lands are known as the Balkans. The name "Balkan" means "mountain" in Turkish, and mountain ranges are the major topographical feature of the peninsula. The population of this area is about 65 million. The majority is Slavs, including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bulgars, and Macedonians. The Greeks and Albanians are non-Slavic people. There are three main religions in the Balkans:
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Extractions: By environment correspondent Alex Kirby Italy has called on Nato to give a full account of its use of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. It follows the death from cancer of a sixth Italian soldier who served with the Nato peacekeeping force in the Balkans.
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Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Powell was forced to call off visits to Kosovo and Bosnia SKOPJE, Macedonia U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has told Kosovo Albanian leaders they must do more to prevent new violence. Powell is wrapping up a European tour, in which he has voiced America's support for democracy in the Balkans but warned that to retain international backing, violence in Macedonia must be denounced. "We call on Kosovars to join us in denouncing and isolating extremists whose actions are eroding international support for Kosovo and sympathy for its people," he said. Bad weather forced Powell to call off a visit to Kosovo on Friday, and he instead met representatives of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population and the international administration for the province in the Macedonian capital, Skopje. Before leaving for Bosnia, he said: "In the meeting I just completed, I did hear the leaders say that they will forswear violence and I encouraged them to speak out candidly to all the people that they represent and the people they are leading that violence is not the answer."
Extractions: From staff and wire reports SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidents and prime ministers from nearly 40 nations have pledged to help rebuild the war-ravaged Balkans and bring prosperity to the troubled region. At a summit in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the world leaders also spoke Friday of building a Europe "at long last undivided, democratic and at peace."
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO medics are recommending tests be carried out on the health of soldiers serving in the Balkans in the wake of concerns over the use of uranium-tipped weapons. Medical committee member General Roger Van Hoof said so far there was no indication that the depleted uranium was responsible for health problems suffered by some soldiers. But illnesses among peacekeepers who served in the Balkans have caused concern among a number of NATO countries and some have offered health tests to their peacekeepers.. The alliance's medical committee is to present its initial findings on so-called Balkans syndrome and the use of the uranium-tipped weapons on Tuesday. The uranium is used the armour piercing qualities of some weapons. General Roger Van Hoof said: "We cannot identify any increase in disease or mortality in soldiers who have deployed to the Balkans as compared to those soldiers who have not deployed.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Wanted: Karadzic is one of 17 war crimes suspects to have ignored the deadline BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Only six of 23 war crimes suspects named on a 'most-wanted' list by the Belgrade government have agreed to surrender to the jurisdiction of the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. The government had set a deadline of midnight on Monday (2200 GMT) for the suspects, who are accused of atrocities during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, to turn themselves in or face arrest. Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said on Tuesday: "I contacted the federal justice minister and his deputy and I have been told that six people have so far reported to the ministry. "I hope that some of these people will be transferred to The Hague over the next few days." MORE STORIES Yugoslav minister found hanged Yugoslavia war crimes law passed EXTRA INFORMATION In-Depth: Milosevic on trial Among the six is believed to be General Dragoljub Ojdanic and former Croatian Serb rebel leader Milan Martic.
WashingtonPost.com: Balkans Report -- Overview Provides historical overviews of Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and a timeline. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/overview/overview.ht
Extractions: A: The United States has long been concerned that violence in Yugoslavia would spill across borders, possibly leading to war between two NATO allies, Greece and Turkey. World War I had roots in Balkan violence; World War II was inflamed by ethnic slaughter there. In recent months, the United States and its European allies have said forcefully that they want Serbian atrocities against Kosovo's civilian population to stop. Q: How is the Kosovo conflict related to Bosnia? A: Bosnia was part of Yugoslavia until 1992 when it declared independence. But ethnic Serbs in Bosnia wanted to remain part of Yugoslavia. The Milosevic government in Belgrade encouraged the ethnic Serbs in Bosnia to fight Muslims and Croats. The war claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, many the result of "ethnic cleansing" carried out by ethnic Serbian paramilitary forces loyal to Milosevic. U.S. officials say they do not want what happened in Bosnia to occur again in Kosovo. Meanwhile, about 20,000 NATO troops are keeping the peace in Bosnia under the 1995 Dayton accords. Some fear those NATO troops could be dragged into the Kosovo conflict.
