Even though he’s been dead for five and a half years, the Kosovar government continues to blame former Serbian ruler Slobodan Milosevic for internal unrest, with a new statement today insisting the nation’s ethnic Serbian minority has the same “mentality” as the late dictator.
Kosovar Serbs make up only about a tenth of the nation’s population, but are the majority in the northern districts. The central government has been tried to curb all trade between the region and neighboring Serbia.
The Serbs have hoped to eventually secede from Kosovo, just as the Kosovar Albanians managed to secede from Serbia (with NATO help), and potentially rejoin Serbia instead of being an undesired underclass inside Kosovo. The Kosovar government has ruled this out, however, as have a number of NATO member nations, which insist Kosovo must remain exactly as it is currently constituted.
Even one ethnic Serbian Kosovo MP condemned his people, insisting that they needed to abandon their opposition to the current regime and warning that those who don’t will face the same ruin as Milosevic.
You have conveniently forgotten the 200 000 ethnicly cleansed Serbs after the Nato liberation of the "Organ traffikers".
What a shame for the truth. What a beauty for the SPIN
Jason, thank you for your service and for your hard work. Because I value it I have a small suggestion for you. I think that when writing about this particular issue you should try to use language that is 'status neutral'.
I understand that your government as well as 70 other states claim Kosovo is not a part of Serbia, however 130 other countries as well as UNSCR1244 disagree. To refer to Kosovo as a "nation" makes it sound like you are endorsing the position of your government while opposing the stance of the other 130. In one view Kosovo is a nation, but in another it is an occupied province of Serbia, under the rule of the Empire and its local client government.
It is really imposible to talk about Kosovo without an unbiased context, based on a reality. Be that under Miloshevic when the armed crime families fought for their "freedom" to operate heroin and human smuggling networks, or under NATO that elevated the same crime families into secessionist fighing for freedom — all the way up to today's reality of NATO-rulled "independent" Kosovo — everything has changed for the worse. For the Serbs life is limited to ghetto they live in. And the smaller ghethos that are surrounded by barbed wires are never in the news in the west — an amazing oversight. But the Serbs in Mitrovica are the target, since they are bordering with Serbia, and this ghetto can be fed and supplied by necessities. Kosovo is not a state — no matter who recognizes it. It has no real institutions or governance of law, and can abuse minorities as they please. It is financially propped up, but Europe and US can ill afford to feed the entire "nation" on foreign aide for ever.
Kosovo shouldn't even exist.