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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (3112)	4/9/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 17770

Friday April 9 5:57 PM ET Chronology of Kosovo Conflict By The Associated Press A look at events related to the Kosovo conflict: 1968 - First pro-independence demonstrations by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. 1974 - New Yugoslav constitution declares Kosovo an autonomous province within Serbia. 1989 - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic strips Kosovo of autonomy. More than 20 killed in protests. 1990 - Yugoslavia sends in troops and Serbia dissolves Kosovo's government. 1991 - Separatists proclaim Kosovo a republic, which is recognized by neighboring Albania. 1992 - Ibrahim Rugova, advocate of a peaceful path to independence, elected president of separatist republic. 1996 - Pro-independence Kosovo Liberation Army emerges, claims responsibility for bombing police targets. Feb. 28, 1998 - Militant Kosovo Albanians kill two Serb policemen, leading to police reprisals by Milosevic, now the Yugoslav president. April 1998 - 95 percent of Serbs reject international mediation on Kosovo in referendum. International sanctions imposed against Yugoslavia. May 1998 - Milosevic and Rugova hold talks for first time, but Albanian side boycotts further meetings. July and August 1998 - KLA seizes control of 40 percent of Kosovo before being routed in Serb offensive. September 1998 - Serb forces attack central Kosovo, where 22 Albanians are found massacred. U.N. Security Council adopts resolution calling for immediate cease-fire. October 1998 - NATO allies authorize airstrikes against Serb military targets, Milosevic agrees to withdraw troops and allows 2,000 unarmed monitors to verify compliance. October-December 1998 - Daily violence undermines fragile truce. Jan. 15, 1999 - 45 ethnic Albanians slain outside Racak, spurring international peace efforts. Feb. 6-17 - First round of talks between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs in Rambouillet, France. March 18 - Kosovo Albanians sign peace deal calling for interim autonomy and 28,000 NATO troops to implement it. Serb delegation refuses and talks are suspended. March 22 - U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke warns Milosevic of airstrikes unless he signs peace agreement. Milosevic refuses. March 23 - NATO authorizes airstrikes. Yugoslavia declares state of emergency - its first since World War II. March 24 - NATO airstrikes begin. March 25 - NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark says NATO forces will ''systematically'' destroy the Yugoslav military unless Milosevic ends his offensive. Aides to Milosevic denounce the airstrikes as ''a grave crime against the people'' of Yugoslavia. March 27 - President Clinton says the United States and its allies are determined to ''defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe.'' The pilot of an American F-117A stealth fighter is rescued hours after his plane goes down in Yugoslavia. March 28 - Thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, flood into Albania and Macedonia from Kosovo, telling of door-to-door raids, looting and burning by Serb forces. March 30 - Talks between Russia's prime minister and Milosevic fail to produce a breakthrough that would end NATO attacks. April 1 - Three captured U.S. soldiers are shown on Serbian television with dirt or abrasions on their faces. Tens of thousands of refugees, some packed shoulder to shoulder into train cars, pour out of Kosovo. April 2 - NATO bombardment continues. Yugoslavia gathers evidence against U.S. soldiers. Thousands more refugees pour out of Kosovo. April 3 - NATO strikes hit the heart of central Belgrade. Macedonia says it will no longer allow refugees through its borders unless they continue on to third countries. April 4 - NATO airstrikes demolish the Yugoslav First Army headquarters in the capital. April 5 - The number of refugees pouring out of Kosovo to neighboring states nears 400,000, a scale not seen in Europe in a half-century. April 6 - The Yugoslav government declares a unilateral cease-fire in a ''gesture of goodwill,'' but Western leaders dismiss the move. April 7 - The former president of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou, begins a mission to win the release of the three American soldiers. April 8 - Fears spread that ethnic Albanian refugees are becoming human shields as Yugoslavia seals its borders. April 9 - Kyprianou fails to free the captured U.S. soldiers. NATO unleashed strikes against a weapons complex containing the factory that makes the Yugo car. dailynews.yahoo.com