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At the NATO summit in Budapest, Hungary, last week, Secretary-General Lord Robertson condemned the "thugs" fighting in the hills of northern Macedonia. He meant the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army. But he could have been talking of Macedonian government forces, supported and advised by NATO and the European Union, which apparently have been beating and torturing Albanian civilians and looting and burning their homes.

These are among the charges in a pair of reports last week by Human Rights Watch in New York. One documents alleged abuses by Macedonian police, charging them with "systematically separating out ethnic Albanian males" from among families fleeing the ...

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