Kosovo’s Independence - A Bitter Reality

Politicians jumped on this. What’s better than running your own country. Politicians, when confronted with the question of universality of human rights, often tend to refer to the specific nature of the situation in the region and in individual countries, considering such behavior as politically useful. As long as in the political culture of a country the word we denotes only those belonging to one ethnic group; and as long one ethnic group claims special rights over another, there is neither understanding of human rights nor a modern sense of multi-ethnic citizenship as the basis for the national identity. Political stability in Kosovo required democratic, stable and functioning local institutions. The common objective was to build effective, transparent and accountable institutions to the benefit of all communities.

Politically, as we shall see, the Americans needed the Russians more than the Russians needed the Americans. Moscow’s calculus was that this was the moment to strike.

Internet information also cannot provide what is perhaps the most important element of operational planning: an understanding of human behavior. If the target is a person, the surveillance team is looking not just for static facts, but for patterns of behavior that will predictably place the target in an ideal attack site at a specific time. International law, as interpreted by judges at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, takes account of what is called ’state practice . In other words, keeping countries united within their borders is considered to be an important way of avoiding chaos.

Albanians are not a majority in Serbia. If put to a vote in the entire country for there to be a succession of Kosovo from the rest of Serbia then it would never pass. Albanian nationalism remains as the most dangerous obstacles for stability and peace in SE Europe. With democratic processes going on after the arrest of Milosevic in Kosovo it becomes more and more evident that Albanian leaders see Kosovo only for the Albanian ethnicity.

Serbia, which considers Kosovo its long-established prep added to spiritual heartland — insists it much belongs to Belgrade. “Serbia views Kosovo in that its southern land,” Serbian President Boris Tadic. On account of 1999, Kosovo’s completion genealogical Albanians add-on childhood Serbs be born with struggled to pass over their differences. Serbs and Albanians will never get along with one another. NATO’s forces will have to be there forever if the ‘cluster-bombed’ peace is to hold. Serbian extremists are violently protesting Kosovo’s succession, while claiming that she is the “heart” of the country of Serbia.

Serbian nation was 19century creation, in the process similar to Mazzini’s Italian project. Serbia effectively gave Kosovo up during that war by its policies, by its brutal treatment of the people of Kosovo and by its lack of attention and regard over the last eight years. There’s only one option, and that is independence.