Volume 46, Number 12 · July 15, 1999
Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory
By Mark Danner
Carried forward amid an ocean of cheering refugees in the Stankovic refugee camp, Madeleine Albright could hardly contain her excitement. 'We have been victorious,' the secretary of state shouted triumphantly to the roaring crowds, 'and Milosevic has lost!' As she spoke, Slobodan Milosevic issued orders in Belgrade; Russian troops, with his happy connivance, marched into Pristina, embarrassing their supposed NATO allies. And more than eight hundred fifty thousand Kosovar Albanians languished in their tent cities in Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro.
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