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I think that's because the left feels, predictably, vindicated by the turn of events.
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Bereta_Eder
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An analysis which I read and with which I agree talks about orchastrated attempts by the Albanian extremists to ethnically cleanse and claim Kosovo for their own. The international community has so far failed to instill democracy and tolerance, which is obviously leagues more difficult than toppling Milosevic.
The international community, the analysis said, is called to try and control the situation and object to any kind of more ethnic cleansing and called everyone to contribute to that, something which I think is already being done. And it called for a "short sharp whipping" of the Albanians claiming this would make it clear to them that attempts to ethnic cleanse and do pogroms will not be tolerated. I also think this is needed. The task is immensly difficult seeing as Kosovo is now a black hole of drugs, prostitutes and illegal arms and that has been evolving under the noses of the int. community.
Still according to sources the Albanians do not have many new arms (although they did shell a Serb community trying to hit a hospital) so I'd only hope that this is a good sign for enforcing stability and some rule of law.
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player1
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Belgrade, YU
Sep 2001
time: 06:34
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At this moment, in last few days, the things that are happening can't be described in any way then "ethnic cleansing".
Churches burned, homes burned, people killed and driven away from thier homes. And those survived would probably never be able to come back (and will live as refugess in Serbia).
And saying that all that happend because of 3 drowned Albanain boys is outrageous. Epecially consideing that in that region there are no more Serbs left.
This is long planned and cordinated action by by Albainian extemistic fractions. How else to explain massive exodus of non-Albanians.
And UN can barly keep things from escalating further.
In 1999, there were around 300,000 non-albainans in Kosovo (including Serbs).
After the intervention only around 100,000 have left.
Now after these events, I guess it won't be a problem for Albanians to say that Kosovo is their alone.
I can't even imagine what would happened in Kosovo got independence few years ago.
I guess that in that case, ther would be no non-Albanians left at all (since there would be no UN to protect them).
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East Street Trader
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Jun 2000
time: 05:34
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There are no quick fixes.
Despite relatively few of them living there Serbs regard Kosovo as their heartland, for historical reasons.
If Albania was expanded to take in Kosovo - the lid would come off, in the short term, and for the long term, another bitter grievance would have been added to the mountain that already exist.
There is only one thing to do for now. The peacekeeping troops stay indefinately with the world (or those within it willing to help out) doing its best to share the burden. And the neighbours of these people must take every opportunity to emphasise to individuals and to representative groups or institutions that the world will not tolerate endless squabbling and that the squabbling will prevent anyone from improving their lot.
I don't know whether it will take one century for these simple messages to get home or two or more. But that is what requires to be done.
As the Kosovan people indulge in extensive smuggling and other crime as well as race riots the international community must tackle crime in Kosovo as well as more straightforward peace-keeping.
And while this is being done no one gets to take sides.
The people have been separating out into more and more segregated groups. Majority groups have been pressurising minority groups to clear out and minority groups have been retreating into ghettos the better to resist. That seems to be what happens in such cases.
The peace-keeping forces must strive to protect everyone, wherever they are but, being realistic I doubt they will manage to do more than to slow the process down a bit and make the separating out a bit less bloody.
When I lived in Cyprus at the beginning of that process in that country, the British - and afterwards the UN - forces used to paint a line through each town delineating where the Greek Cypriot quarter ended and the Turkish Cypriot quarter began. And there were curfews and patrols and "demilitarised zones" and so on. But, in the end, each side withdrew to their own portion of the island.
Maybe this is something that just has to happen in the long story of how these things eventually resolve themselves?
Meanwhile we must stick to the main thing - just staunchly to refuse to take sides.
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VetLegion
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East Street Trader:
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Serb, Croat and ethnic albanian are locked in a bitterness so deep that they just are not going to get on together.
Economic well being is the only cure for this. If the region can get a decent economy going, self interest will bring about co-operation. And maybe a few hands will be less idle. |
Countries of ex Yugoslavia were economically extremely dependant on each other and there was huge economic exchange between them. This however did not stop the war(s).
Ned:
May I speculate that your views changed since you have been reading emperors-clothes.com (you linked to it in one of your posts)?
That site is totaly worthless and you should not believe anything you read there.
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VetLegion
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And some things about Kosovo you may not understand. Albanians were a majority there for decades and yet somwhere about 100% of policemen in the region were Serbian. How do you people explain that?
Or the fact that Kosovo had an autonomy in Yugoslavia, under Tito, however Milosevic revoked that autonomy in 1989 (or so).
In Yugoslavia you had an Albanian majority in Kosovo demanding more and more rights Serbs weren't willing to give.
I am only mentioning this because people seem to have distorted perception about who bossed who around in Kosovo for last 50 years. Serbs bossed everyone else and basta.
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VetLegion
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Oh yeah, paiktis you forgot to mention Serbs burnt the mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
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20-03-2004 21:43
They also still haven't found evicence of Soviet massacres of Polish officers and Russian Kulaks either, right? 
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