1. And it supports the idea of a NATO operation to disarm ethnic rebels in Macedonia. 2. Another group of ethnic Albanian rebels is thought to have seized the village and is now under siege from army and police forces. 3. Because the ethnic Albanian rebels are seeking independence from Serbia, Milosevic has considered the fighting in the province an internal matter. 4. Both the Serbs and the ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo are now confident that force of arms can solve the impasse between them. 5. A new outbreak of fighting in Kosovo added urgency on Wednesday to international efforts on enlisting ethnic Albanian rebels in talks on the future of the Serb province. 6. Also on Monday, ethnic Albanian rebels signed a cease-fire agreement with Yugoslav authorities. 7. Clinton used his weekly radio address to give a brief history of the fighting in Kosovo between Serb forces and ethnic Albanian rebels seeking independence for the province. 8. Cohen said his view changed last fall when he saw that the Yugoslav campaign was forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian rebels to flee their homes. 9. Conversations here indicate that the ethnic Tutsi rebels are being viewed as invaders. 10. Derogatory graffiti about Albanians in Skopje add to fears that a conflict between Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian rebels could turn violent. |