Word: montenegro
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...from the mining city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, has not been able to go home. She was 14 when Serb troops expelled her and her family from their small cement-block home as part of their offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels and forced them across the border into Montenegro. When the war ended in 1999, they returned to find the narrow road into their hillside neighborhood blocked by Serbs, many of whom had fled here from Albanian-dominated areas elsewhere in Kosovo. The last time Lindita tried to visit was nearly a year ago. Riding in a police...
Roko Camaj owned the most enviable views in New York City. As a window cleaner for the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, his work space offered staggering panoramas of the city he adopted when he arrived from Montenegro in 1969. Most days, he surveyed the surroundings from indoors, operating a remote cleaning machine from the rooftop; but the windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building...
...Radovan Karadzic. Following the transfer in June of Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague, Karadzic, the Bosnian-Serb leader during the war, is the U.N. war-crime tribunal's most-wanted man. Reports have placed him in these remote, cloud-draped mountains or just across the border in Montenegro. In Foca, he does not lack support. "I am in love with him," says a woman in her 50s who refuses to give her real name. "If he is arrested, we will rise up." She gestures at a portrait of "my man," displayed on a back wall, alongside Serbian-orthodox icons...
...widely criticized for their failure to nab Karadzic and Mladic so far, have recommitted themselves to the task. Rumors that a snatch may take place soon swirl around the region. DON'T TOUCH HIM! warn posters of Karadzic pasted up recently by a Serb cultural group in nearby northern Montenegro. Zoran Zuza, a well-informed Bosnian-Serb journalist and political analyst in the former wartime stronghold of Pale, says Karadzic "realizes that he has never been in such dire straits...
...recently changed his bodyguard; the detail is now believed to consist of about a dozen hard-core paramilitaries, or no more than can travel in three vehicles. NATO officials say Karadzic is moving around regularly. He travels in and out of the Serb Republic and across to neighboring Montenegro, where he was born and which can be reached by trails across the mountains...