The Prosecutor Takes on Kosovo
The Tribunal makes plans for investigating war crimes in Kosovo - sharing leaders confidence that NATO will enter the province, with investigators in tow.
The Tribunal makes plans for investigating war crimes in Kosovo - sharing leaders confidence that NATO will enter the province, with investigators in tow.
Draskovic was a PR figure for the West, to try to soften the most radical aspects of the Belgrade regime. Now the fig leaf is off.
In the first days of the war, the offices of Pristina's leading daily were destroyed and all of its journalists scattered. But the team has reassembled and relaunched from exile, and Kosovo Albanians once again have a voice.
Belgrade continues to take a pounding, but only becomes more entrenched. Rather than cracks in the regime, Draskovic's statements about the impact of the bombing may only indicate his own powerlessness.
The war in Kosovo is throwing Albanians together. Expelled and bussed and broke, they are herded from place to place - bringing with them all of their terrible tales.
Tribunal Update 122: Last Week in The Hague (19-24 April, 1999)
Tribunal Update 121: Last Week in The Hague (12-17 April, 1999)
The influx of Kosovo refugees has caused ethnic tensions to rise. But for now, Macedonia's ethnically mixed government is maintaining a united front.
Albanians are concentrating military efforts in the north, to try to prevent Belgrade from realising their biggest fear: partition of the province.