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 | | Kosovo is a province of Serbia, in the middle of southeastern Europe, about 160 miles east of Italy -- that's less than the distance between Washington and New York -- and only about 70 miles north of Greece. |
 | | In 1989, Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic, the same leader who started the wars in Bosnia and Croatia and moved against Slovenia in the last decade, stripped Kosovo of the constitutional autonomy its people enjoyed, thus denying them their right to speak their language, run their schools, shape their daily lives. |
 | | As the Kosovars were saying yes to peace, Serbia stationed 40,000 troops in and around Kosovo in preparation for a major offensive, and in clear violation of the commitments they had made. |
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