Thread: Kosovo Declares Independence

Originally Posted by Elbmek

There was an item on tv recently, three small Albanian boys were playing on their side of the border, a bridge connected Serbia and Albania and the boys crossed it. A serbian tending a field started swearing and shouting at them. The boys, afraid, turned back. 2 more Serbs appeared, with dogs, which they released to chase the children. The bridge was cut off by these two so the children had to run down the river bank and into the freezing water, swollen by snow melt. Two of the children, brothers, dorwned trying to help each other and their bodies were lost downstream. The third managed to reach the other side but had to hide in the water, hidden under some bushes, because the 2 Serbs crossed the bridge and were searching the undergrowth for them. He managed to stay alive till they left and was found collapsed on the bank..........

Lovely people the Serbs.

Horrors exist in all communties of the world.


Jallianwallah Bagh was worse!

Originally Posted by Ray

Horrors exist in all communties of the world.


Jallianwallah Bagh was worse!

Probably going off topic, but what was that about? I agree, it is all over the world in one form or another - its the nature of the beast, and the beast is man.

Jallianwala Bagh massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

lots more detailed links are there just google

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Separatists in Indian Kashmir said Saturday that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence has bolstered their resolve to achieve the same status for the disputed Himalayan territory.

Kosovo last Sunday declared independence from Serbia, which vowed never to recognise the move.

Kosovo's independence declaration has "strengthened our resolve to achieve freedom for Kashmir," leading Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah told AFP.

Several countries including the United States and Britain have recognised Kosovo as a new state, but India said it was studying the legal ramifications.

India is wary of recognising Kosovo as an independent state because of its potential implications for Kashmir, racked by a nearly two-decade revolt against New Delhi's rule that has left more than 43,000 people dead.

Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, which have fought two wars for control of the Muslim-majority region, each hold part of the territory but claim it in full.

"Kosovo's independence is an indicator that struggles based on truth and justice never fail," Shah said, adding the day is not "far when Kashmiris will be free."

Shah, 54, who heads the pro-independence Democratic Freedom Party, is dubbed the "Nelson Mandela" of Kashmir after spending more than 20 years in Indian jails.

"The world community, the European Union in particular, should play a Kosovo-like role in getting the dispute resolved" in Kashmir, added Yasin Malik, chairman of pro-Independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front.

Both Malik and Shah want India and Pakistan to withdraw from Kashmir to pave the way for its independence.

So far, 23 of the 27 European Union member states back Kosovo's independence, either formally recognising it or declaring their intention to do so.

Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations since 1999 after NATO bombed Belgrade to end a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists, but it remained technically part of Serbia.

Thank You for the can of worms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Serbia today - crypto-Nazi nationalist leaders continue to rant about Greater Serbia, Slav racial purity, an Orthodox crusade against Islam, and medieval Kosovo - Serbia's Sudetenland.

Some may be unaware that Kosovo is sitting on one of Europe’s most lucrative mineral deposits. The potential wealth of northern Kosovo’s Trepça Complex coveted by Serbia is vast! It alone could solve either nation’s desperate economic problems.

The debate is no longer about democratic decentralization; this is really about Serbian Lebensraum, as international interests divvy up the spoils of war.

Russia fears this new American initiated precedent of rendering the UN irrelevant!

If the US and its NATO allies can stymie the creation of a "Greater Serbia" built on genocide's charnel remains, Russian ambitions in former Soviet Union territories can be similarly thwarted. China is similarly worried - think Taiwan or Tibet.

Remarkable as it may seem to some chetniks present - USA is acting with honour unadulterated by financial self-interest or ulterior motive!

Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

UNPROFOR did not take sides. I remind you that Medak was fought against the Croats ... but our political masters did take sides. I told you before, UNPROFOR failed ... and I have no excuse for that ... but that does not mean the Serbs have excuses for Srebrenicia.

Colonel,

The military rarely takes sides.

It is always the political masters who do and they mess whatever the military might try to do, to stabilise the situation!

The military is always subordinate to the civil govt in a democracy!

Elbmek,

No offence was intended.

I just wanted to highlight that stray incidents of gruesome violence does not indicate the overall political picture of events that pressured such violence and counter violence.

As the Colonel has indicated that while the UNPROFOR had all good intentions, it was the politicians who messed up the issues.

International political jockeying is the bane to international sanity and logic. The people are merely their tools and their lives are of no value.

The break up of Yugoslavia will have a telling effect on Europe of the future.

I feel it is a case of cutting the nose to spite the face!