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	Noel Malcolm's _Kosovo: A Short History_
		While the birth rate among Albanians is indeed higher than that of Serbs in Kosovo, and while there are more Albanians living there, Malcolm contends that the Serbs, with their own attempts to ‘Serbianize&; the region and to eradicate the presence of Albanians in Kosovo, are primarily to blame.
		Not having read _Kosovo: A Short History_ in its entirety, I am not altogether persuaded or dissuaded by Malcolm’s argument, but it does seem obvious that he is more sympathetic toward the Albanians than he is to the Serbians.
		According to Malcolm, Serbians blame Kosovor Albanians for the alleged ‘genocide’ of the Serbian population in Kosovo, and they see the Albanians as a growing Islamic menace.
	www2.tltc.ttu.edu /kelly/_5346disc/00000055.htm (382 words)

	KOSOVO: ACTIVIST PREDICTS INDEPENDENCE OR BLOODSHED
		He warned that a formula offered by Belgrade, which would grant ethnic Albanians “more than autonomy, but less than independence”, was a “formula for new bloodshed and fire in Kosovo, formula for the creation of a hell which would spread from Kosovo to Serbia and to the surrounding countries”.
		Demaci, who spent almost 30 years in jail in communist Yugoslavia for advocating Kosovo separatism told Serbian daily “Gradjanski list” that ethnic Albanians, who make a 1.7 million majority in Kosovo against 100,000 Serbs, would settle for nothing short of independence and that the international community should be aware of it.
		Demaci, who is currently president of the Kosovo Writers Association, said that Kosovo Albanians have renounced the idea of joining Albania, but would never give up independence.
	www.adnki.com /index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.207773535&par=0 (418 words)

	Albanians in the Balkans: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Kosovo Albanians have been largely successful at seeking the release of Albanian political prisoners held in Serbia, and are pressing for investigations of missing Albanians.
		The Albanian population in the Balkans, which is defined as a language group and includes Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Muslims, is scattered throughout the region, with the largest concentrations existing in Albania proper; Macedonia; Kosovo; the areas of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja in southern Serbia near the border with Kosovo; and Montenegro.
		Albanians are even more concerned by the fact that many of the police officers and Ministry of the Interior troops involved in policing the demilitarized zone are the same individuals who patrolled the area under Milosevic, and in some circumstances committed crimes against the Albanian population.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr77.html (6061 words)

	Milosevic et al. - Second Amended Indictment
		Displaced Kosovo Albanians often arrived at the borders of Kosovo on foot in convoys of several thousand persons, or carried by tractors, trailers and trucks, as well as on trains, buses or trucks which were organised and provided by forces of the FRY and Serbia.
		Many Kosovo Albanians who were not directly forcibly expelled from their communities fled as a result of the climate of terror created by the widespread or systematic beatings, harassment, sexual assaults, unlawful arrests, killings, shelling and looting carried out across the province.
		These actions were undertaken in order to erase any record of the deported Kosovo Albanians’ presence in Kosovo and to deny them the right to return to their homes.
	www.un.org /icty/indictment/english/mil-2ai011029e.htm (14226 words)

	DPI - Local Media Monitoring
		Rada Trajkovic, by the sole fact that she went early to vote, gave the good example to the Kosovo Serbs on what they should do today, and that is to vote for themselves, for the future of their municipalities and for the future of their community" declared Steiner to Tanjug.
		CCK head Nebojsa Covic, who yesterday renewed his invitation to Serbs to cast their votes in the Kosovo municipal elections, commented on the declarations of Kosovo Albanian political leaders, who say that these elections move Kosovo closer to independence.
		The focal point of the entire newscast was the voting process in local elections in Kosovo.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/2002/mon/Oct/lmm271002.htm (14226 words)

	Leveling the [Kosovo] Playing Field
		THE HAGUE -- Tuesday – One of three Kosovo Albanians indicted by the Hague Tribunal for crimes against Serb and Albanian civilians in the summer of 1998 says that he is not the person referred to in the indictment.
		PRISTINA, Kosovo--Fatmir Limaj, a former high-ranking commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), was taken into custody on 18 February in Kosovo where he is awaiting extradition to the Hague along with three other Kosovar Albanians accused of war crimes.
		The arrest of Limaj--the vice president of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), chaired by former UCK leader Hashim Thaci--represents the first accusations The Hague has levelled against Kosovar Albanians for war crimes committed during the 1998 conflict.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/851088/posts (1286 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Balkans Report
		Although Kosovo and Vojvodina were granted self-rule since Tito and the Communists founded the Yugoslavian federation in 1945, the constitutional revision gave ethnic Albanians in Kosovo control over local affairs and the Albanian language equal footing with Serbo-Croatian.
		Sporadic fighting and the Jan. 16 discovery of 45 slaughtered ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak threatened to unravel the truce.
		As a result of Milosevic's new offensive launched in March 1999 against Kosovo Albanians, and his defiant rejection of peacekeeping troops as outlined in the peace accord, NATO approved punitive airstrikes against Yugoslavia.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/overview/kosovo.htm (1275 words)

	Kosovo: Prisoners [Free Republic]
		Anyone who has ever been in Kosovo and spoken with the remaining Serbs there is well aware of their deep distrust of the local Albanians.
		After speaking with numerous Kosovo Serbs I got the impression that they would trust judges of any nationality, but simply cannot trust those who are Albanians.
		This is why I am convinced that a just legal system in Kosovo, now and in the near future, will not be secured as long as Albanians prosecute Serbs.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39355d4b70bd.htm (1275 words)

	Untitled Document
		To better understand the contemporary political situation in Kosovo, it is essential to acknowledge the histories of the ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo and their historical relationship to one another.
		Serb political and social leaders exaggerated the numbers of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to portray Kosovar Serbs as victims of ethnic hatred, asserting that they were persecuted by ethnic Albanians in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
		Kosovo became the cultural and administrative center of the Serbian state for 200 years, during which Serbs constructed churches and monasteries in Kosovo.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/v6i2/kosovo.htm (2160 words)

	Milosevic Says Victim List Is Fake
		Halit presented the list to the court Wednesday along with a detailed account of several months he said he spent hiding from Serb soldiers and documenting their crackdown in Kosovo in 1998-99.
		The former Yugoslav president tried to turn the tables on Halit Barani, a Kosovo politician who a day earlier showed the U.N. tribunal a list of 66 ethnic Albanians that was dated February 1999 and appeared to have been issued by a Serb military or police commander.
		Barani, a member of the pro-independence Democratic League of Kosovo party whose name was on the list, said it was found in the municipal building in Kosovska Mitrovica, a town in Kosovo.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/feb02/hed4747.shtml (641 words)

	Democratic Reform Party of Albanians lodges protest
		PRISTINA — Leader of the Democratic Reform Party of Albanians (DRPA) Sokolj Chuse, following the rampage of Albanian terrorists gangs in towns throughout Kosovo-Meothija, sent Monday a letter of protest to the head of the U.N. Civilian Mission in that Serbian province, Bernard Kouchner.
		Chuse said that the rampaging of terrorist gangs in Kosovo and Metohija, on Sunday November 28, who celebrated the Albanian holiday, Flag Day, in the presence of U.N. members headed by Bernard Kouchner, represents the failure of UNMIK and its visible cooperation with Albanian terrorist gangs.
		The goal of the street celebrations across Kosovo-Metohija was to expell from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija all Serbs, as well as all others who think differently, Chuse said in the protest to Kouchner.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19991201drpapr.htm (210 words)

	All Kosovo Options
		Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) is the only FRY political party with representation in the Parliament which decidedly supports the regionalization of FRY, while the parties which represent Kosovo Albanians, due to the nature of common strategy whose goal is the independence for Kosovo, reject this concept because is doesn't contain elements of statehood.
		Still this option is supported by the strongest political party of Kosovo Albanians, Democratic Party of Kosovo (DSK); this option is the consensus platform of the Kosovo Albanians in the negotiations with the parties from Serbia and FRY in New York.
		The leader of Kosovo Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova, confirmed that the "parallel elections for the parliament and the president" will be held in Kosovo and appealed to the Kosovo Serbs to take part in them.
	www.ex-yupress.com /vreme/vreme23.html (210 words)

	Cleansing of Minorities
		The numbers of displaced Gypsies -- estimated at more than 10,000 so far -- are dwarfed by the million ethnic Albanians and more than 50,000 Serbs who fled their homes in the Kosovo
		``We are innocent people who have done nothing wrong, yet the Albanians want to kill us all,'' a 20-year-old Gypsy man said at the Kosovo Polje encampment.
		Albanians — and even some accounts of torture and rape at the hands of individual Gypsies –- returning refugees and the KLA have vowed to rid the province of its Roma population.
	www.kosovo.com /kla1.html (11002 words)

	Nezavisne Novine: Repeat of Kosovo Tragedy is Increasingly Threatening Southernmost Municipalities of Serbia, February 16 2000
		The target, just like Albanians "loyal to the state of Serbia" formerly in Kosovo, was the vice-president of the Socialist Party of Serbia in Bujanovac and the director of the elementary school in the village of Djurdjevac, Mustafa Camill; an explosive device was thrown and machine-gun fire aimed at his house.
		Fear of Kosovo and of the possibility of "Kosovo happening" in both Bujanovac and Presevo began to be felt at the end of autumn of last year when an armed incident occurred for the first time.
		The largest Albanian party in the south of Serbia assesses that with the Kumanovo agreement "the sensitive issue of the Albanians in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medveda was ignored by virtue of the fact that the demilitarized zone was imprecisely defined.
	www.ex-yupress.com /neznov/neznov20.html (11002 words)

	Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albanian flag is used by the Albanian-dominated administration and the vast majority of Kosovo Albanians.
		The Albanians reject Serbian sovereignty; although the fall of the Milosevic government has eased some of the political tensions between the two administrations, most Kosovo Albanians do not believe that the Serbian side will respect Albanian rights.
		Kosovo's international status is anomalous in that although it is a province of the Republic of Serbia, actual administration is presently conducted by the United Nations with no involvement on the part of the Serbian governments (under Security Council resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999 ; see Security Council Resolutions 1999).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo (11002 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - TRUTH ABOUT KOSOVO I METOHIJA
		Their separatist claims are based on the number of Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija which, they allege, gives them the status of "a people" and the Constitution of the SFR of Yugoslavia from 1974, but even that Constitution reserved the right to self-determination only for the constituent peoples of the former Yugoslavia.
		In Kosovo and Metohija there are five active leading political parties whose members are exclusively Albanian minority (Democratic League of Kosovo, Democratic Christian Party of Albanians, Peasant Party of Kosovo, Parliamentary Party of Kosovo, Socialist Democratic Party of Kosovo).
		The request for the discussion on Kosovo and Metohija in the United Nations is yet another attempt at destabilizing the FR of Yugoslavia, which threatens the achieved results of the peace process, the aim of which is to discredit the constructive and peaceful policy of the FR of Yugoslavia.
	www.suc.org /politics/kosovo/html/gov120795.html (11002 words)

	MEMORANDUM ON KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - summary
		The tragedy of the Kosovo and Metohija drama intensified, especially at the end of the 1990's when the Kosovo Albanians, through intensive activity by their lobbies abroad and procurement of large quantities of weapons after the state crisis in Albania in 1997, created the necessary conditions for the organization of an armed rebellion.
		Kosovo and Metohija fell to the Germans, Italians and Albanians, who during the occupation had their own army, the Ballists, who carried out great crimes against the Serbs, Serbian shrines, priests and monks, and the people.
		When the Turks occupied Kosovo and Metohija (in 1455 with the fall of Novo Brdo town) and neighboring regions, they conducted a census of the population, which was almost exclusively Serb, with only 2-3% Albanians west of Đakovica.
	www.spc.org.yu /Vesti-2003/08/memorandum-e.html (11002 words)

	BBC News EUROPE UN 'failed' Kosovo Serbs
		He also said that the UN had not sufficiently realised that Kosovo Albanians - an overall minority in the former Yugoslavia - would take revenge on Serbs in Kosovo, where Kosovo Albanians are the majority.
		In a flamboyant ceremony to mark the end of his 18 months in the post, he warned the province's Kosovo Albanians that, in the eyes of the international community, they had turned from victims to oppressors.
		Speaking to the BBC's Nicholas Wood, Dr Kouchner said that Serbia and Kosovo were in a "race to democracy" that could determine the future relationship between the two.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1114139.stm (421 words)

	Kosovo -- Russia in talks on Serbs' fears
		The original agreement establishing a multinational force in Kosovo put the province under Russian protection, but ethnic Albanians, suspicious of Russian troops and accusing them of siding with Belgrade, blocked their entry.
		"Kosovo is gradually transforming into a mono-ethnic enclave with the aim of separating from the Yugoslav federation," he said.
		Several massacres of Albanians by Serbs were reported around the town before and during Nato’s bombing of Yugoslavia and Albanians say the perpetrators are still hiding in the enclave.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19991229russftuk.htm (421 words)

	Kosovo -- Russia in talks on Serbs' fears
		"Kosovo is gradually transforming into a mono-ethnic enclave with the aim of separating from the Yugoslav federation," he said.
		Several massacres of Albanians by Serbs were reported around the town before and during Nato’s bombing of Yugoslavia and Albanians say the perpetrators are still hiding in the enclave.
		Witnesses say two or three men — assumed to be Albanians — threw grenades into the caf� before walking inside and opening fire with Kalashnikov automatic rifles on the dozen Serbs sitting there.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19991229russftuk.htm (421 words)

	Citys of Kosova
		Following the abolition of Kosovo's autonomy by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević in 1990, a harshly repressive regime was imposed throughout Kosovo by the Serbian government with Albanians largely being purged from state industries and institutions.
		In 1956 the Yugoslav secret police put on trial in Prizren nine Kosovo Albanians accused of having been infiltrated into the country by the (hostile) Communist Albanian regime of Enver Hoxha.
		In response, the Kosovo Albanians set up a "shadow government" under the authority of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), led by the writer Ibrahim Rugova.
	citys.of.kosova.en.reference.pl (4257 words)

	Kosovo
		Kosovo has also been called the Republic of Kosova by Albanians since a 1990 declaration of independence, but this is unrecognised by Serbia or the international community and has no official status.
		The Albanians reject Serbian sovereignty; although the fall of the Milosevic government has eased some of the political tensions between the two administrations, most Kosovo Albanians do not believe that the Serbian side will respect Albanian rights.
		Kosovo's international status is anomalous in that although it is formally a province of the Republic of Serbia, actual administration is presently conducted by the United Nations with no involvement on the part of the Serbian governments (under Security Council resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999; see Security Council Resolutions 1999 (http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1999/sc99.htm)).
	www.askfactmaster.com /Kosovo (1905 words)

	Kosovo -- Russia in talks on Serbs' fears
		"Kosovo is gradually transforming into a mono-ethnic enclave with the aim of separating from the Yugoslav federation," he said.
		Several massacres of Albanians by Serbs were reported around the town before and during Nato’s bombing of Yugoslavia and Albanians say the perpetrators are still hiding in the enclave.
		Witnesses say two or three men — assumed to be Albanians — threw grenades into the cafÈ before walking inside and opening fire with Kalashnikov automatic rifles on the dozen Serbs sitting there.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/19991229russftuk.php (1905 words)

	Unrest in Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clashes have also broken out between Serbs and Albanians in the largely Serb-inhabited north of Kosovo, with Albanians claiming to be harassed by Serbs who have been chased out of their homes and taken refuge north of the Ibar River.
		The latest unrest began on March 15 with the drive-by shooting of an 18-year-old Serb, Jovica Ivić, in the village of Čaglavica in the central region of Kosovo.
		Non-Albanian minorities in Kosovo were subjected to "persistent intimidation and harassment" (in the words of Human Rights Watch), though the level of violence is reported to have declined somewhat since the end of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unrest_in_Kosovo (1873 words)

	Kosovo War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kosovo's borders did not precisely match the areas of ethnic Albanian settlement in Yugoslavia (significant numbers of Albanians were left in the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia proper, while the far north of Kosovo remained largely ethnic Serbian).
		In Kosovo growing Albanian nationalism and separatism in response to persecution led to growing ethnic and religous tensions between Christian Serbs and predominantly Muslim Albanians.
		Kosovo was by some standards the poorest part of Yugoslavia: in 1979 the average per capita income was $795, compared with the national average of $2,635 (and $5,315 in Slovenia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_War (9469 words)

	MSN Encarta - Kosovo
		Kosovo, province in southwestern Serbia, in the republic of Serbia and Montenegro (formerly the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or FRY).
		Although Kosovo has important deposits of lead and zinc (at Trepča and elsewhere in the Kopaonik range) as well as significant deposits of lignite, chromite, and magnesite, the province has long been one of the poorest regions in all of Europe.
		In the months that followed, hundreds of people were killed and more than 200,000 were driven from their homes; most of these people were ethnic Albanians.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579795/Kosovo.html (1298 words)

	Wikinfo Albanians
		The fate of Kosovo remains uncertain owing to the reluctance of the Albanian majority to contemplate a restoration of Serbian sovereignty and of the United Nations and NATO to separate the territory definitively from Serbia in contravention of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 from 1999.
		Among the poorest of the Continent's nationalities, in the latter half of the 20th century Albanians experienced the highest rate of natural population growth of any of Europe's major indigenous ethnic groups, increasing their numbers from 1.5 million around 1900 and fewer than 2.5 million in 1950.
		Some believe the Albanians to be descendants of the Illyrians while others give them origins that date back to 1043 when they were first mentioned in the Balkans.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Albanians (578 words)

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