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nato.kosovo.on/; and CNN News, “NATO Demonstrates Firepower
over Balkans,” CNN.com, June 15, 1998, via http://www.cnn.com/
WORLD/europe/9806/15/nato.kosovo/.
7. A reconstruction of this event suggests that a police car was chasing
suspected KLA rebels on a road to Likoshani when the car was
ambushed by the KLA. A backup patrol was also hit by the KLA, caus-
ing four officer deaths in total. James Walsh, “A Volcano Explodes,”
Time Europe Website, March 16, 1998, via http://www.time.com/
time/europe/timetrails/serbia/sr980316.html.
8. Ibid.
9. CNN News, “At Least 20 Dead in Kosovo Fighting,” CNN.com,
March 1, 1998, via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/01/yugo.
kosovo/.
10. Adem Jashari had been sentenced to a 20-year jail term in absentia for
attacks wounding police and civilians. CNN News, “Serbs Say Kosovo
Guerrilla Leader Killed in Crackdown,” CNN.com, March 6, 1998,
via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/06/kosovo.pm/.
11. R. Jeffrey Smith, “Eerie Quiet Follows Assault in Kosovo,” The
Washington Post, March 9, 1998, A13; Tanjug News Agency, “Kosovo
Killing: Belgrade’s Official Version of Events,” BBC News Online,
March 12, 1998, via http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/
64947.stm.
12. Smith, “Eerie Quiet.” NOTES 205
13. CNN News, “World Leaders Condemn Kosovo Violence,” CNN.com,
March 7, 1998, via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/07/
yugo.kosovo/.
14. CNN News, “Serbs Say Kosovo Guerrilla Leader Killed in Crackdown.”
15. Walsh, “A Volcano Explodes.”
16. CNN News, “World Leaders Condemn Kosovo Violence,”; and
Smith, “Eerie Quiet.”
17. Allan Little, “Behind the Kosovo Crisis,” BBC News Online,
March 12, 2000, via http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/
674056.stm.
18. Serbs see the Albanian majority as a function of high post–World War II
illegal immigration, high birth rates due to their backwardness, and
repressive treatment of Serbs by Albanians after the 1974 constitu-
tional amendments, which forced many Serbs to leave Kosovo.
19. CNN News, “Serbian Police Break up Mass Protest in Kosovo,”
CNN.com, March 2, 1998, via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/
9803/02/yugo.kosovo/.
20. Sell, Slobodan Milosevic, 65.
21. CNN News, “Serbs Say Kosovo Guerrilla Leader Killed in Crackdown.”
22. Intercoder reliability .95 (21/22).
23. Wolfsfeld, Media and Political Conflict, 50.
24. Human Rights Watch, A Week of Terror in Drenica: Human Law
Violations in Kosovo (Human Rights Watch, 1999) available from