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Memorandum on Kosovo Albanian Political Prisoners in Serbia (Human Rights Watch Memorandum, October 14, 2000) Upon the signing of the June 10, 1999, Military-Technical Agreement between Yugoslavia and NATO that ended the Kosovo war, an estimated 2,100 Kosovo Albanians were transferred from prisons in Kosovo to Serbia proper. The Serbian Supreme Court should urgently review those political cases of Kosovo Albanians pending appeal and acquit all those defendants for whom evidence is lacking. President Kostunica should immediately review all political cases of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia that have been ruled on by the Serbian Supreme Court or the Military Supreme Court. www.hrw.org /press/2000/10/serbia1014-bck.htm   (546 words)

bcr_19991208_4_eng.txt 'Humane Exchanges' In Southern Serbia Cement Ethnic Divide While Serbs flee Albanian persecution in Kosovo and move to Serbia proper, Albanians living in southern Serbia are intimidated into making the opposite journey. Serbian police are responsible for security in this zone and local sources say that it is here that Albanians are being expelled. At the end of November, Serbian Police Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic met in Kursumlija with the heads of Kosovo police units which have been stationed in southern Serbia since their withdrawal from the province to examine "the security situation in Kosovo and in the security zone", even though no Serb police are currently in the province. www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19991208_4_eng.txt   (721 words)

Vreme: Border between Serbia proper and Kosovo - Bloody battles in the buffer zone Namely, on Sunday at 3am, in the region of Prepolac near Kursumlijska Banja, a large group of armed Albanians entered the territory of Serbia [proper] from the Podujevo municipality and attacked a Police patrol engaged in regular reconnaissance of the buffer zone. The buffer zone stretches five kilometers from the border with Kosovo inside Serbia [proper], and the number of policemen and their activities within the zone are limited. The Serbian Police claims that ethnic Albanians are entering the territory of the Kursumlija municipality and terrorizing the population; KFOR responds that it does not have evidence to back up such claims, but that it will nevertheless strengthen the presence of its troops along the border www.ex-yupress.com /vreme/vreme65.html   (1111 words)

Kosovo War Serbia's political changes were ratified in a 5 July, 1990 referendum across the entire republic of Serbia, including Kosovo; although most Albanians voted against it, the result was a foregone conclusion given the much greater population of Serbia proper. In February 1982, a group of priests from Serbia proper petitioned their bishops to ask "why the Serbian Church is silent" and why it did not campaign against "the destruction, arson and sacrilege of the holy shrines of Kosovo." Such concerns did attract interest in Belgrade. In particular, the power of Serbia - the largest and most populous republic - was diluted by the establishment of autonomous governments in the province of Vojvodina in the north of Serbia and Kosovo in the south. www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/k/ko/kosovo_war.html   (9099 words)

About Kosova - (Përreth Kosovës) With the forced "constitutional changes" of March 1989, and the subsequent dismantling of Kosova's administration and economy (Serbia has taken over 250 large and medium-sized companies), Kosova has been transformed into an administrative and economic appendix of Serbia, and human rights of Albanians are violated at will. Kosova lies on the south of former Yugoslavia, bordered by Serbia proper to the northeast, Montenegro to the north, Macedonia to the south and Albania to the southwest. Presently, the struggle in Kosova is between the 90 percent Albanian population led by the democratic parties and engaged in peaceful resistance on one side, and the ruling pro-communist Government of Serbia acting as an occupying power with the assistance of the 9 percent Serbian minority, on the other side. www.geocities.com /adnon17/about_kosova.html   (1667 words)

KLA provocations in Mitrovica and southwest Serbia At the end of NATO's war against Serbia in 1999, a three-mile “buffer zone” was established between Kosovo—still nominally a Serbian province—and Serbia proper, which Yugoslav army units were not permitted to patrol. America's previous description of the KLA as a “terrorist organisation” was abandoned in favour of depicting them as “heroic freedom fighters,” which the West was obliged to aid in the struggle against Serbian tyranny. Following the war against Serbia, the KLA provided the military and political forces upon which NATO established its protectorate in Kosovo. www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/koso-m10.shtml   (1297 words)

miller1.html His fear/loathing of Albanians, his reliance on historical arguments for the reattachment of Kosovo and Vojvodina to Serbia, and his espousal of a broad Serbianism all foreshadowed another major faction in the Serbian opposition to Titoism, that which arose outside of the party in the mid- 1980s after the president's death. Each province now occupied a dual constituent status: simultaneously part of Serbia and the federation, they played a republican role in the federal context, where their powers were almost identical to the republics with the exception of the right to secede. The Serbs of Serbia proper fell under the regime of the German puppet ruler, Milan Nedic; significant numbers of them died as Partisans, Cetniks, or victims of German reprisals. coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/miller1.html   (6430 words)

BBC NEWS Europe Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo Serbia has returned the remains of what are believed to be 44 Kosovo Albanians who were killed in 1999 and buried in a mass grave outside Belgrade. The authorities in Belgrade have been criticised for being slow to return the bodies discovered in mass graves in Serbia proper. As the remains arrived at the UN checkpoint separating Kosovo from the rest of Serbia, relatives and Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj were waiting. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4102761.stm   (258 words)

Balkan wars and terrorist ties b) Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo (and predominantly ethnic Albanian parts of southern Serbia, such as Presevo) who are accused of being collaborators with the Serbs; Although the report finds that integration in Serbia and Montenegro will be the most likely outcome for the overwhelming majority of refugees and displaced people, it says that it is too early to give up on the goal of repatriation. It added, "Paradoxically, it might even strengthen Milosevic's hand, giving him a convenient scapegoat for the many ills confronting Serbia." USCR's report urges the United States and other donor countries to provide humanitarian assistance to Serbia as well as Montenegro. www.balkanpeace.org /monitor/mfry17.shtml   (516 words)

Kosovo - free-definition The curriculum was (and still is, as that is the curriculum used for Albanians in Serbia outside Kosovo) basically the same as Serbian and that of all other nationalities in Serbia except that it had education on and in Albanian language. In 2002, Serbia and Montenegro reported hosting 277,000 internally displaced people (the vast majority being Serbs and Roma from Kosovo), which included 201,641 persons displaced from Kosovo into Serbia proper, 29,451 displaced from Kosovo into Montenegro, and about 46,000 displaced within Kosovo itself, including 16,000 returning refugees unable to inhabit their original homes. 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. www.free-definition.com /Kosovo.html   (516 words)

Albanians in the Balkans: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace 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. 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. 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)

Serbia and Montenegro This region, which encompasses the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja, has the largest concentration of ethnic Albanians in Serbia proper and had been an area of significant ethnic unrest in 2000-01. Implementation of the Covic plan gave southern Serbia's ethnic Albanians proportional representation in the police and control of local governments in municipalities where they constituted a majority. Serbia and Montenegro (SaM) is a constitutional republic consisting of the relatively large Republic of Serbia and the much smaller Republic of Montenegro.* In March 2002, the two republics, with European Union (EU) mediation, negotiated the Belgrade Agreement, in which they agreed to redefine the joint state. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27874.htm   (18146 words)

CNN.com - Serbia sets ultimatum over Kosovo border - November 24, 2000 Serbia, which had originally given the KFOR peacekeepers just 48 hours, says it will order its own police in to the buffer zone bordering the province if recent attacks by ethnic Albanians are not halted. Belgrade's statement came as the U.N. refugee agency said several hundred people had fled from villages in Serbia proper into Kosovo to escape the violence. In Serbia, angry Kosovo Serb protesters -- unable to return to the province because of the clashes -- set up a roadblock on the motorway between the town of Nis and the Macedonian capital Skopje near the town of Bujanovac. www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/11/24/kosovo.kfor/index.html   (790 words)

Balkan Repository Project - THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF SERBIA - DECLARATION ON KOSOVO AND METOHIJA the preservation of Serbia's territorial integrity is a vital precondition for the survival of the entire Serbian nation which cannot be met without a proper solution for the Kosovo problem. rejects the idea of constituting Serbia as a federation because this could only encourage separatist aspirations of Kosovo Albanians, undermine Serbia's territorial integrity and lead to its subsequent disintegration; is convinced that the unitaristic concept for Serbia is a serious obstacle to democracy and would vitally threaten the right of Serbian citizens to use different forms of regional and local government for participating in political decision making, as well as hamper economic development; www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/kosovo/html/platf_dss_e.html   (479 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). Kosovo's Serbian population was soon reduced by over 75%, with NATO apparently unable to provide much security to Serbs outside a few enclaves, most notably the northern town of Mitrovica and the surrounding countryside. The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in Kosovo, a southern province of Serbia, part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_War   (9777 words)

Time-Line of Events in Kosov@ Nine-tenths of Serb civilian Kosovars fled (mostly to Serbia proper) in terror. Kosov@ granted autonomous status within Serbia (one of the six republics of Yugoslavia). Many Kosovar Albanians killed when asking for equal rights in Yugoslavia people.colgate.edu /nyoung/kosovar/timeline.htm   (448 words)

Statement on Kosov@, March 1999 The governments that make up NATO displayed very little active interest in supporting nonviolent efforts by Kosov@ Albanians throughout the nine years in which they refused to take up arms in response to Serbian repression and violence. In Serbia proper, the Belgrade regime has already moved against anti-war voices, such as Radio B92. For eight years the Albanians of Kosov@ persisted in their strategy of refraining from violence and concentrating on maintaining their social cohesion and institutions such as parallel schools. wri-irg.org /statemnt/mar99kos.htm   (927 words)

Carl Savich Columns serbianna.com Albanians in the town had demanded that the Stolic family sell their house to ethnic Albanians and that they move to Serbia proper. As Pashko Vasa, an Albanian nationalist figure stated, "the religion of the Albanians is Albanianism", i.e., Greater Albania is the overriding ideology of Albanians, not any particular religion. Fadil Hoxha, a leading Albanian political leader in Yugoslavia, said that "Serbian women should be used to satisfy potential ethnic Albanian rapists." Aziz Kelmendi murdered four Yugoslav army recruits based on anti-Slav racism. www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/050.shtml   (927 words)

S-2000-1196 A major issue of concern in UNMIK is the situation of the Kosovo Albanian detainees in Serbia proper, as well as those members of all communities who have gone missing in Kosovo during and after the conflict. Twenty-seven Kosovo Albanians were arrested, three of whom were suspects in major crimes, 17 weapons were seized and $50,000 in cash confiscated. The Kosovo Serb members of the assemblies were drawn from various political parties associated with the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, as well as the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Serb Movement for Renewal and the Yugoslav United Left. www.hri.ca /fortherecord2000/documentation/security/S-2000-1196.htm   (11622 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. It claimed that Kosovo's status in 1986 was a worse historical defeat for the Serbs than any event since liberation from the Ottomans in 1804, thus ranking it above such catastrophes as the Nazi occupation or the First World War occupation of Serbia by the Austro-Hungarians. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_War   (9469 words)

The Conflict in Yugoslavia and the Autonomous Region of Vojvodina Serbians claim that because this vote made Vojvodina a part of Serbia before the signing of the Treaty of Trianon, it is therefore a part of Serbia proper. As discussed earlier, Vojvodina is a formerly autonomous region situated on the borders of Southeastern Hungary, the Northeastern tip of Croatia, Southwestern Rumania, and Northern Serbia. Unfair housing and other practices against Serbs and favoring Albanians in Kosovo were used by Belgrade to support claims of a larger and unfounded conspiracy: Croats in Croatia wanted to kick Serbs out of their homes and Hungarians in Vojvodina wanted to secede and again become part of Hungary. hipcat.hungary.org /yugo.htm   (9469 words)

News @ Serbian Unity Congress New Europe: A dangerous cosmetic salon, KIM Info Service, August 26, 2005 This hospital was the only one in the municipality in which both Serbs and Albanians could get medical treatment. In the fields and the food markets - where proper work, the cultivating of fields and selling of agricultural products at local markets is extremely difficult for the Serbs and the Roma, although this is their main source of revenue. In the municipalities - where Serbs who bring documents in the Cyrillic letter face Albanians employed in the administration who often reject them as "illegible and unclear." news.suc.org /bydate/2005/August_26/1.html   (1540 words)

CNN.com - Presevo peace talks - March 23, 2001 The two sides met at a cluster of military tents set up on Kosovo's border with Serbia proper by the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, close to the village of Merdare, international mediators said on Friday. The two sides agreed a cease-fire last week after more than a year of sporadic but sometimes fierce fighting in the Presevo Valley in southern Serbia. The rebel group said it is fighting Serb state-backed persecution of ethnic Albanians. www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/23/presevo.talks/index.html   (557 words)

Balkan [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community Most of Balkans is not Dinaric by race and I doubt that even most of former Yugoslavia is mainly Dinaric by race (coast and southern Montenegro are not and neither are much of Serbia proper, regions in central Bosnia). Greek heritage encompasses entire Balkans and Anatolia (mainly turmenized Byzantine Greeks) and it is not only secluded to Greece proper and the weight of its historical achievement vastly supersedes anything anyone else in Europe did during the course of recorded history (anything outside recorded history is simply a guess and thus unworthy in comparison). Also with this we can once and for all shut the Albanians up with there pathetic claim to be the only and true Illyrians left in the Balkans. www.stormfront.org /forum/archive/index.php/t-110372   (3036 words)

Yugoslavia-NATO_Info_27;_1-2_5-5-99 Yugoslavia has already been burdened since 1992 with almost one-million refugees from Bosnian Serb areas and Croatian Serb areas, as well as Croatians and Muslims fleeing into Serbia-proper from what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. There is no doubt but that the NATO bombings in Kosovo and in the rest of Serbia have contributed heavily =97 perhaps overwhelmingly =97 toward the outflow of refugees, not only the Kosovar Albanians but many other ethnic groups who have been forced on the road with the destruction of their homes or their livelihoods. Within Yugoslavia, some one-third of the population is not of Serbian origin, and this makes it the most multi-cultural, multi-religious state in the Balkan region. www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99eeu/Yugoslavia-NATO_Info_27;_1-2_5-5-99   (3036 words)

Kosovo In 1689, Kosovo was greatly disrupted by the Ottoman-Habsburg war (1683-1699), in one of the pivotal events in Serbian national mythology. Autonomous provinces of Serbia: Kosovo and Metohija The ethnic composition of Kosovo's population during this period is a controversial issue among Serbian and Albanian historians. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/kosovo.html   (4573 words)

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