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In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

  
  Kosovo Burning - by Nebojsa Malic
Throughout the occupied province, Serb houses and churches are burning, UN offices and KFOR troops are under fire, and those non-Albanians who survived the ethnic cleansing of the past four years are fleeing for dear life, as mobs of well-armed and apparently closely coordinated Albanians continue their rampage.
Consider now the words of KFOR commander, German general Holger Kammerhoff, who warned that "thousands of ethnic Albanians that attacked KFOR, the police, Serb enclaves and churches should be aware of robust reserve forces." (Reuters) Note how clearly he identifies the attackers and their targets.
But the worst media atrocity was the incessant repetition of the blood libel broadcast by Kosovo Albanian TV just as before the first wave of attacks was underway: that Serbs chased a group of Albanian boys into the river Ibar Tuesday, where three drowned in the rapid currents.
www.antiwar.com /malic/?articleid=2164   (1760 words)

  
  Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kosovo was also called "Republic of Kosova" by the shadow Kosovo Albanian government between a 1990 declaration of independence and the Kosovo War in 1999.
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).
Kosovo's postal system is also usable only in countries which are accepting to recognise it as such (letters addressed to Kosovo only, or to Serbia and Montenegro have a chance of not arriving; the Universal Postal Union advises correspondents to use "Kosovo (UNMIK)" as the address [1]).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo   (2296 words)

  
 Kosovo - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovo Polje (Kosovo Field) is just a small field which was the site of the Battle of Kosovo; when the communist government changed the name of the province to Kosovo in 1968, they also started pushing "Kosovo Polje" as the name of entire region.
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).
The Assembly of Kosovo was elected in November 2001 and Ibrahim Rugova was elected as president in March 2002.
open-encyclopedia.com /Kosovo   (2023 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Kosovo Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovo was economically important, as the modern Kosovo capital Pristina was a major trading centre on routes leading to ports on the Adriatic Sea.
In 1689, Kosovo was greatly disrupted by the Ottoman-Habsburg war (1683-1699), in one of the pivotal events in Serbian national mythology.
In March 17, 2004, Unrest in Kosovo led to several deaths and the destruction of a large number of Orthodox churches and monastries in the province, as Albanians clashed with Serbs.
www.ipedia.com /kosovo.html   (4581 words)

  
 Kosovo and Metohia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovo Polje (Kosovo Field) is just a small field which was the site of the Battle of Kosovo; when the communist government changed the name of the province to Kosovo in 1968, they also started pushing "Kosovo Polje" as the name of entire region.
Kosovo was also called "Republic of Kosova" by the shadow Kosovo Albanian government between a 1990 declaration of independence and the Kosovo War in 1999.
Kosovo's international status is anomalous in that although it is a province of the Republic of employees from all ethnic communities (Albanian, Serbian, Roma, Bosniac, etc), but dominated by veterans of the KLA.
koz.vianet.ca /boshis78.htm   (1672 words)

  
 News @ Serbian Unity Congress | Demographic history of Kosovo, Wikipedia, July 22, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Serbs were cleansed out of the Vilayet of Kosovo between 1876 and 1912, especially during the Greek-Turkish war of 1897.
According to these, the regions of Kosovska Mitrovica and Kosovo Polje were settled mostly by Serbs, whereas most of the terrirory of western and eastern parts of today's province was settled by Muslim Albanians.
The largest concentration of Serbs in the province is in the north, but many remain in Kosovo Serb enclaves surrounded by Albanian-populated areas.
news.serbianunity.net /bydate/2005/July_22/18.html   (1492 words)

  
 Talk:Kosovo Serb enclaves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I, at least in my own opinion, find not only this article "Kosovo Serb enclaves" and the articles "Kosovo", but also many other related documents about Kosovo : UNMIK, Kosovo War, KFOR....
I don't think "Kosovo Serb Enclaves are the few remaining areas of...
Kosovo where Serbs, Roma and other minorities live peacefully without the constant violence and intimidation (ethnic cleansing) of their Albanian neighbours" (Italics added for emphasis) is a very neutral way of putting it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Kosovo_Serb_enclaves   (222 words)

  
 Page Title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Serbia has already found 836 corpses of ethnic Albanians in mass graves far from Kosovo, and on Sunday a senior police official said it was checking reports that Serb police also incinerated Kosovo Albanian corpses in 1999 in a factory furnace.
Jessen-Petersen said the fate of Kosovo's missing was a "burning humanitarian issue" and he deplored the fact that his talks had been sidetracked by an electricity complaint.
The existence of the graves was revealed in 2001 as reformers braced Serbs for Milosevic's extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
www.themissing.org.uk /page4.html   (597 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Kosovo
Qeveria e Kosovës is the body that governs Kosovo and it is elected by the Assembly of Kosovo.
Kryetari i Kosovës or the president of Kosovo is elected by the Assembly of Kosovo.
Battle on Kosovo, by Adam Stefanović, oil, 1870 The Battle of Kosovo Polje was fought on St....
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kosovo   (1046 words)

  
 Kosovo Serbs to Participate in UN-Run Municipal Polls - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
Kosovo's Serb minority will participate in a new round of UN-run municipal elections to be held because it boycotted a previous poll, a spokeswoman for the community's main political group said Wednesday.
Although Saturday's election was peaceful by Kosovo standards, and no violence broke out between rival ethnic Albanian groups, an elderly Serb woman was stabbed and injured by two Albanian-speaking men and the home of a Serb couple was targeted in a grenade attack, UN police said.
Kosovo Serb leaders claim that 1,000 Serbs have been killed or "disappeared" since the United Nations took control of the province.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/kosovo1/001101.htm   (506 words)

  
 Uroševac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uroševac (Урошевац, Albanian: Ferizaj) is a town located in the province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia) in Serbia and Montenegro at 42.38° North, 21.17° East.
The town grew rapidly 1873 as a consequence of the railroad built.
In 1998, prior to the Kosovo war, the population was recorded as 57,421, of whom 82.1 per cent were Kosovo Albanian, 9.4 per cent Serb, and the remainder from various other national communities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urosevac   (196 words)

  
 Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Serbs there, as well as in most of Kosovo today, may be killed if they speak their language in public, just because they belong to other ethnic group and religion.
Serb children in Pristina cannot have their school, they cannot go to cinema or walk in the streets.
All Serb inscriptions in major cities have been systematically removed, all Serb medical personell in hospitals (except in Mitrovica) was expelled or abducted, not a single Serb school operates in major Kosovo cities.
www.kosovo.com /report.html   (2396 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): The March Violence: KFOR and UNMIK's failure to protect the rights of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In June a Serb family, 80-year-old Slobodan Stolic, his 78-year-old wife Radmila and 55-year-old son Ljubinko were brutally murdered in Obilic/Obiliq and their house burnt in what was seen as a racist attack to intimidate remaining Serbs into leaving the area.
Serb IDPs living in a school gymnasium in northern Mitrovica/ë © AI The Serb IDPs from Obilic/q(61) informed Amnesty International that after the attacks on 17 March they were evacuated by KFOR and spent seven days in a KFOR camp before being transferred by KFOR to a school in Gracanica/Graèanicë.
The letter called for a memorandum of understanding for a partnership between Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs based on mutual respect and the marginalization of extremists on both sides, and for a memorandum of understanding between the religious leaders and the population, according to which the religious leaders would preach tolerance and respect.
web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGEUR700162004   (10867 words)

  
 Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova): The March Violence: KFOR and UNMIK's failure to protect the rights of the ...
In June a Serb family, 80-year-old Slobodan Stolic, his 78-year-old wife Radmila and 55-year-old son Ljubinko were brutally murdered in Obilic/Obiliq and their house burnt in what was seen as a racist attack to intimidate remaining Serbs into leaving the area.
The Serb IDPs informed Amnesty International that after they refused this option, they were transportd by KFOR to the railway station in Zvecan near to N. Mitrovica/ë and left to their own devices.
The letter called for a memorandum of understanding for a partnership between Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs based on mutual respect and the marginalization of extremists on both sides, and for a memorandum of understanding between the religious leaders and the population, according to which the religious leaders would preach tolerance and respect.
amnestyusa.org /refugee/document.do?id=4070400D98F709C680256EC30052BC92   (10942 words)

  
 NEW ALBANIAN ATTACKS ON KOSOVO SERB COMMUNITY  KIM Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Milivoje Milacic, one of Serb villagers from Merdare confirmed to KIM Radio that all 4 graves of Bulajic family were totally destroyed.
According to Milacic Kosovo Albanians from the neighboring village of Dubnica often illegally cross the boundary and steal forest which belongs to the Serbian villagers of Merdare.
The train which travels from north to south of the Province is one of the last remaining travel lines for the Serbs from Central Kosovo enclaves.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /101302.htm   (503 words)

  
 Key to Kosovo Serb survival | Misa Djurkovic | Columns | Serbianna.com
Despite the 2001 agreement between the UN mission in Kosovo and Belgrade, which recognized the legality of all those institutions, Albanian leaders and some parts of the international community are still referring to them as ’parallel’, thus attempting to denote them as illegal, lawless and an obstacle to the development of a multiethnic Kosovo.
The Serb population is indeed unwilling to accept that their children must begin to learn in Albanian language or that they should be taught that the Serbs are „occupiers“ in Kosovo.
The response of the UN Mission in Kosovo was to propose a plan which, a year and a half later, proved to be a failure: it offered too little to the Serbs, while the Albanians did not care to implement it.
www.serbianna.com /columns/djurkovic/001.shtml   (875 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Is Kosovo up to standard?
As a result, Kosovo may now be nearer to international acceptance of eventual independent status.” But Haradinaj’s smooth exit belies a grassroots sense of anger and frustration among Kosovars that the international community remains unwilling to confront the issue of status and possible independence.
Serb representatives in the Kosovo government have consistently refused to participate in the working groups established to implement the UN standards.
Kosovo’s demographics are against it: it has the youngest population in Europe, providing a constant expansion in the available labor.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11047   (3655 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Serbs boycott Kosovo poll
KOSOVO’S beleaguered Serb minority has staged a near-total boycott of the province’s weekend general election, reducing the likelihood of establishing a truly multi-ethnic, independent state.
Yet for now it is Serb participation in the electoral process that is seen by the UN, NATO and the EU as crucial: if Kosovo is to move forward to some form of independence, and eventual membership of the EU, a truly multi-ethnic polity is a key issue.
And although Boris Tadic, the pro-western leader in Serbia, encouraged Kosovo’s Serbs to vote, as did Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, nationalist politicians and the vocal Serb Orthodox church urged a boycott.
news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1235412004   (950 words)

  
 CNN.com - Rugova claims victory in Kosovo - November 19, 2001
There was delight among Kosovo's U.N. and NATO officials that the election had been free of violence and that it appeared that there had been a healthy turnout by Serb voters.
There had been concern that Serbs would shun the poll, but officials estimated that 46 percent of Serbs voted in Kosovo itself after earlier concerns that turnout in Serb enclaves would be low.
About 105,000 Serbs and other minorities had registered to vote in Serbia and Montenegro, in addition to their 75,000 ethnic kin who were registered to cast ballots in the province.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/11/18/kosovo.poll/index.html   (887 words)

  
 Transitions Online: ‘This is Serbia’
While Kosovo is still officially part of Serbia, the territory has been governed by a Western-led UN administration since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign against Serbia forced Belgrade to withdraw its forces.
Serbs and other minority groups have been the victims of numerous violent attacks, many fatal, in recent years.
Kosovo's Ombudsperson argues that both Kosovo and Serbia must confront the issue of the missing.
www.buzztracker.org /2005/02/15/cache/465230.html   (544 words)

  
 News: Balkans, Kosovo Serbs break ties with UN, declare 'emergency'
Several thousand Serbs gathered in Zvecan to protest the violence, allegedly committed by extremists from Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority despite the presence of NATO peacekeepers throughout the province.
Since the end of Kosovo's 1998-1999 conflict, some 200,000 Serbs have fled the province fearing reprisals by ethnic Albanian extremists, while the remaining roughly 100,000 live in constant fear for their lives and property.
Belgrade and Kosovo Serb leaders have complained for years that the NATO and UN missions have failed to ensure security for non-Albanians, pointing to constant small-scale attacks and a major anti-Serb rampage in 2004.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ABES-6QGMLZ?OpenDocument   (481 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They argued Kosovo, only one year on from the war, was not ready to begin the transition from international administration to local government.
Inter-ethnic violence, especially in border areas and in and around the Kosovo Serb enclaves, and tension among Kosovo Albanian politicians were too high, the sceptics said.
Although Kosovo Albanians claimed to have little interest in what was happening in a "foreign country", Milosevic's fall and Serbia's democratisation has unavoidable implications for Kosovo's future status.
www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20001027_1_eng.txt   (625 words)

  
 Travel Kosova - Open Project - Mitrovica
Kosovo Albanian communities in the north who cannot travel to the south for security reasons are presently transported by KFOR to the southern facilities.
Kosovo Serb staff is presently operating from the Institute for Public Health in Zvečan/Zveçan.
In autumn 2001, a Kosovo Serb university was founded, comprising of the former rectorate and four faculties (Electro-technical, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture/Civil Engineering and Law) of the pre-conflict University of Prishtinë/Priština.
www.travelkosova.com /modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=10   (1545 words)

  
 A Review of NATO’s War over Kosovo, by Noam Chomsky
As NATO forces entered Kosovo, tremendous efforts were undertaken to discover evidence of war crimes, a “model of speed and efficiency” to ensure that no evidence would be lost or overlooked.
In Kosovo, in contrast, evidence of terrible crimes can be adduced to provide retrospective justification for the NATO war, on the interesting principle that has been established by the doctrinal system.
Opening her legal defense of the war, Law Professor Ruth Wedgwood assumes without argument that the objective of the NATO bombing was “to stem Belgrade’s expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo”— namely, the expulsion precipitated by the bombing, and an objective unknown to the military commander and forcefully denied by him.
www.chomsky.info /articles/200005--.htm   (5547 words)

  
 Kosovo Serb Officers Attacked
The Kosovo Police Service was set up by U.N. police officers, who trained new recruits from the local population to police their areas.
Although Serbs were initially reluctant to work with U.N. police and join the force, the KPS now includes both ethnic Albanians and Serbs.
On Wednesday, the body of a Serb shepherd with multiple gunshot wounds was found in the hills near the eastern Kosovo village of Verbestica, U.N. police said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20001004/aponline095840_000.htm   (307 words)

  
 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kosovo's battered Serb minority is moving cautiously towards participation in the first election campaign in the province since the international community effectively assumed control there in 1999.
When the Return Coalition was registered in Kosovo under Covic's influence on September 22, uniting several local Serbian parties and branches of Belgrade-based parties, it was seen as a clear signal that Serbia was preparing the way for Kosovo Serbs to vote on November 17.
The Serbs stand only to lose their elected representatives in Kosovo's new parliament, who may be best placed to carry on the fight for their rights.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20011019_1_eng.txt   (1160 words)

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