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Near Bujanonav / Yugoslavia ( RNN Correspondent ) March the 15th, 2000
The Yugoslav army has begun what it says are regular spring ...
Near Bujanonav / Yugoslavia ( RNN Correspondent ) March the 15th, 2000
The Yugoslav army has begun what it says are regular spring exercises in a troubled area near the border with Kosovo, where locals fear a repeat of the ethnic conflict that racked the province. Dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers from the army's Pristina Corps were lined up in a field near the border buffer zone. "We are nine kilometers (six miles) from the border," Maj. Milan Mojsilovic told RomNews Network over the weekend. "Our unit is carrying out regular planned exercises." It is well outside the three-mile buffer zone specified by NATO and Yugoslav military chiefs in the agreement that ended the air strikes. But the exercises, which follow previous ones last year, underline the tensions in the largely ethnic Albanian populated region, an area stretching 60 miles along Kosovo's eastern border with government-controlled Serbia.
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