Quotes by Mark Almond

“Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.”

“For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.”

“The tragedy is that when a precision bomb hits a gas station surrounded by cottages, you discover that you cant fight a humanitarian war in a humane way.”

“While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side.”

“Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,”

“Law and order is now a big issue,”

People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.