Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Violence in Kosovo
Serbs unhappy with Kosovo's declaration of independence set fire to two UN border posts yesterday.
No one was injured, but the attacks were emblematic of the determination of the Serb minority in Kosovo, particularly in the exclusively Serb area around this city, to resist the idea that a new international border has been created.
"This is Serbia," said Dragan Mitrovic...
The Washington Post article above doesn't mention that the "exclusively Serb area" is that way only because the Serbs in Kosovo live isolated and protected by the UN, or else the Kosovars would kill them....
Western diplomats are urging Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership to maintain tight control of its own population so it does not respond to what international officials fear will be an escalating series of provocations. The goal of the international community appears to be to maintain stability so that the Serb community can exhaust its anger. Kosovo is 90 percent ethnic Albanian.
Kosovo should be free, but Westerners should have no illusions about the threats posed by both sides here.... ¶ 7:22 AM
No one was injured, but the attacks were emblematic of the determination of the Serb minority in Kosovo, particularly in the exclusively Serb area around this city, to resist the idea that a new international border has been created.
"This is Serbia," said Dragan Mitrovic...
The Washington Post article above doesn't mention that the "exclusively Serb area" is that way only because the Serbs in Kosovo live isolated and protected by the UN, or else the Kosovars would kill them....
Western diplomats are urging Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership to maintain tight control of its own population so it does not respond to what international officials fear will be an escalating series of provocations. The goal of the international community appears to be to maintain stability so that the Serb community can exhaust its anger. Kosovo is 90 percent ethnic Albanian.
Kosovo should be free, but Westerners should have no illusions about the threats posed by both sides here.... ¶ 7:22 AM
