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Occupied Kosovo was the unfinished business of the “demise” of Yugoslavia, and the left over remnants from defeat of the Ottomans in Europe, and redrawing of boundaries after the destruction of the USSR. As Turkey retreated East of the Bosporus, it left behind many islands of Muslims totally surrounded by their former enemies. Hounded by enemies on all sides, it is amazing that these Muslims survived at all.
Luckily for Kosovo, it falls on the side of Western and European interests. Thumbing the nose at Serbia (a Russian client state), and at Russia and helps NATO establish a permanent beachhead in a former Soviet sphere of influence. President Bush is more popular in Albania than any other country of the world.
The old “Yugoslav parts”, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Croatia are independent, but Kosovo remains occupied by Serbia. After the destruction, and then cutting down of Bosnia, a fatigued world did not want to deal with the suppression and the plight of the Kosovars in Europe. Today Kosovo a Muslim Albanian country remains gobbled up by Serbia which is refusing to give Kosovo its independence. Belgrade and Pristina have been unable to reach agreement on Kosovo’s final status: the province’s Albanian leadership supports independence but Serbia is opposed.
When the author of this article visited Sarajevo in the late 60s, we searched for a mosque to pray in because it was Eid. We asked many people called “Mehmet” and other Muslim sounding named. We got variations of same answer. “We are European not Muslim, and there was no mosque”. In the 80s, the Serbs came down, and informed these people that they were not only Muslim, but that they were being raped and killed because they were Muslim. Now the mosques are full of Bosnian Muslims, who have discovered their religion.
Bosnia itself is a rump state which was combined with Herzegovina because the flag holders of free speech and freedom “did not want to tolerate a Muslim state in the heart of Europe” (British foreign secretary quote). Europe stood by, when Muslims were massacred in rape camps and mass graves. It took America to bomb Serbia to its senses and it took America to stop the carnage in Bosnia. Today Mr. Bush remains the most popular leader in Albania and Kosovo.
This was the Muslim Albanian flag
This was the Egyptian Albanian flag. Egypt also used a version of this flag before Nasser.
Kosovo became Muslim when the Turkish Ottoman Muslims ruled all of Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and were at the edge of Vienna.
They Kosovars are still choosing a flag. The leaders say that the flag will not look like any other flag. However the streets of Pristina are a sea of red and a full of eagles.
This is “Scanderbeg’s flag” that united Albanians in the 15th century. But the flag predates Scanderbeg, since it was the flag of the principate of Kastrioti even before him. As for the 28th of November, it is a double celebration. In 28 Nov 1444, Scanderbeg returned and liberated the castle of Kruja, and from there started the struggle to liberate the whole of Albania. In 28 Nov 1912, Ismail Qemali, conscious of the symbolism of the date, raised the flag in Vlora and proclaimed Albania’s independence, following a congress of delegates from all Albanian lands. Kosova, Macedonia, Cameria as well were represented in that congress, and that’s why the date and the flag are symbolic of all Albanian nation and not just the citizens of the (truncated) Republic of Albania.
The news agency has had insight into the document, put together “by some EU countries”, that says the province’s independence declaration, rejected by Serbia, will be recognized in “three waves”.
Albania, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and some other Muslim countries will lead the way, the report says.
This will be followed by Austria, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and, the document speculates, France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy.
The United States is also likely to recognize Kosovo very soon.
The “second wave” is said to include Croatia and Macedonia.
Others will be careful and wait to see how the situation develops, bearing in mind the precedent such recognition sets.
Russia, China, Cyprus, and a number of EU countries that were earlier reported as opposed to the recognition, that include Romania, Bulgaria, Spain, Slovakia and Greece, will not recognize Kosovo.
The presence of the first two countries on that list also means that the province cannot count on a UN seat, or membership in a number of other international organizations where Russia has the veto power.
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s recognition will be made impossible by the Republic of Srpska’s objection, the study concluded, and added that countries such as India, Brazil and Argentina are also “very critical” toward the possibility of recognizing Kosovo as a separate country.
Meanwhile, Dušan Janjić, who heads the Forum for Ethnic Relations, said that “independence of Kosovo and Metohija, which the United Nations will not recognize, will have only political and psychological weight at first,” while “only later will it become evident that it is not what the Kosovo Albanians had expected.”
In a live broadcast by the Kosovska Mitrovica radio Kontakt Plus, Janjić said late Saturday that the self-proclaimed independence “will not bring full freedom, better life, while new passports will not enable them to travel everywhere.”
“Around 40 countries will recognize them, which is fewer than the number of countries that recognize passports issued by UNMIK today. That will be the beginning of a dangerous phase, which is when the Albanians will realize that it is not what they had been promised for the past 20 years. That will open room for extremists,” cautioned Janjić.
Kosovo to declare independence on 17th:
Serbia: BELGRADE: Serbia’s minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, said Friday that his government has information that the Albanian-majority province will declare independence on February 17.
“The Serbian government has received more and more significant information that (Kosovo Prime Minister) Hashim Thaci will illegally declare the unilateral independence of Kosovo on February 17,” Samardzic said.
“The EU cannot expect that just before the unilateral declaration of independence announced for the 17th of February, that Serbia itself signs for the independence of Kosovo,” he was quoted as saying in a statement.
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Friday about 100 countries were ready to recognise the province’s independence from Serbia as soon as it was declared. “We have confirmation by around 100 countries that they are ready to recognise Kosovo’s independence immediately after we declare it. We will have a powerful and massive recognition,” he told a news conference.
Thaci was speaking after his regular weekly meeting with Joachim Ruecker, head of the Kosovo mission of the United Nations which has administered the territory since NATO expelled Serbian forces in 1999. Thaci did not name any countries or specify when he plans to declare independence. In Belgrade, Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic said in a statement a declaration could come as early as next weekend. agencies.
PRISTINA/BELGRADE (Reuters) – Kosovo is expected to declare its independence from Serbia by next Sunday, inviting the European Union to send in a planned supervisory mission and NATO to stay on at the head of a peacekeeping force.
“It will all be done by Sunday,” a senior political source told Reuters. He denied speculation that it would be a two-stage process, with a statement of intent next weekend and an actual declaration in March.
Kosovo hopes for quick recognition from the United States and from the EU, whose foreign ministers meet on Feb 18.
But Kosovo’s minority Serbs plan a virtual secession of their own, with proposals to establish an “assembly” next Saturday in the Serb-dominated Mitrovica region of Kosovo’s north, the Kosovo Albanian daily Zeri reported.
Zeri said the assembly was part of a Serb scheme to “create a separate political and territorial entity with special links to Serbia”.
Serbia recently opened a government office to oversee public services in Mitrovica , saying it would “intensify” Belgrade’s parallel network of services for Serbs. The United Nations, which has administered Kosovo since Serb forces were expelled by NATO in 1999, called it a “provocative act”.
“Everything must be done for (Kosovo) Serbs to remain on their land and to live safely as citizens of Serbia after an eventual unilateral declaration of independence,” Serbia’s Ministry for Kosovo said in a statement on Friday.
Analysts say Serbia, if it can’t keep Kosovo, wants to partition the territory, keeping control of the north, where it already provides health, education and administrative services for Serbs.
Kosovo’s independence move was delayed three times in the past year, in deference to Serb-ally Russia’s insistence on continuing talks in search of an elusive compromise, and because of its explosive impact on Serbian politics.
PRELUDE TO CHAOS
Despite two elections — one general, one presidential –, Serbia is still deeply split. Nationalists are determined to halt talks on closer ties with the EU if it goes ahead with recognition. Pro-Western parties say the bid for EU membership must be the country’s priority.
The ruling coalition is on the verge of collapse.
Parliament speaker Oliver Dulic told the daily Vecernje Novosti on Sunday that an early parliamentary election was one of the options to resolve the crisis, which will be discussed by pro-EU President Boris Tadic and nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica later this week.
“That will be a key meeting designed to stabilise the political situation in Serbia and will answer whether this coalition can function in the future,” said Dulic.
If Kostunica kept turning to hardline nationalist opposition parties to support his unbending position on Kosovo, the coalition would fall, Dulic added.
Labour Minister Rasim Ljajic said everything in Serbia “had ground to a halt”, adding: “This is a prelude to chaos.”
In Kosovo, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci went to the country on Sunday to deliver a new tractor to a Serb family and promise “much better days to come” after independence.
“We are closing the chapter of the past… Kosovo is our joint fatherland,” he told the Slavkovic family.
On a visit to Rubovce village last week, the family told the 39-year-old former guerrilla fighter he was “younger than our tractor”. (Additional reporting by Gordana Filipovic, Ellie Tzortzi)
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Bosnia, Europe, Kosovo, LIberation
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln In 1821
2009: On August 15, India’s independence day, Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of Srinagar, was taken over by thousands of people who hoisted the Pakistani flag and wished each other “happy belated independence day”:-- Arundhati Roy
(Pakistan celebrates independence on August 14)
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Indian Hotel Association hosts Modi after US denied him a visa 
“We should have nothing to do with conquest.“ In Thomas Jefferson 1791
The PPPP emptied the treasury in 6 months!
Mr. Modi the Chief Minister was implicated in these riots--supported by Indian Hotel Owners Association in America--the same group that supports Gov. Bobby Jindal
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More than four IIIyrian Entities compose Albania.
LABEATS, TAULANTS, ALBANS, ENKELEIS, DARASETS and KAONS.
All of them speaks Illyrian language but with different dialects. Three first has a very distinct Illyrian dialect named GEGE and the rest has another Illyrian dialect named TOSKE.
On 1912 they united in one single state and agreed to be named Eagle’s Land. SHQIPERIA.
The foreign “SKOLARS” named Albania based on the name of only one of the Entities.
This was not only Ignorance but also a big mistake of these “very educated Scholars“.
The situation then was so critical for SHQIPETARET, so they accepted any injustice and compromise. This was the big price they pay to gain the independence. Of course many other Illyrian entities was ignored. This has been done in purpose to use Illyrian territories as a trade merchandise to please slavics, which in return were used in two wars. The Slavics paid their price. They lost 56 million people 1908 – 1946. Illyrian paid bigger price. They were spread over 5 different states.
It’s about time to recognize the historical right of Kosova (Dardania) to have its destiny fulfilled-That is full independence. Kosova never was a Serbian province. It was there, since the times of birth of European civilization, a very distinct Dardanian/llyrian identity. Always populated by Dardanias who, although under constant pressure of forcefully migration by Serbian shovinism, Tito’s Yugoslavia & Milloshevic’s Serbia, still make up 92% of the population. They speak ilirian language with the dialect GEGE. Serbs always have been a minority there. We know that Serbs appeared in Balkans (then llyria) only by the 6th Century AD, and they speak a language more similar to Ukrainian then Russian. They have always been a minority and ‘the story’ of Kosova being the Heartland of Serbia is just a pure Serbian nationalist fantasy. Facts Speak Louder Than Words and Serbian’s Lies Will Collapse by Themselves. Serbs always have been considered as oppressors there, not just by Albanian majority, but also by other ethnic groups too. Serbs just occupied Kosova during the rise of the Serbian nationalism early 20th century from Ottomans, who by then were loosing the Balkans after 500 years of occupation. The borders of Kosova are well established and recognized. Now Kosova should be Free!
To find the answer for the question “do you think Kosovo’s independence will strengthen separatist movements elsewhere”, please refer to:
http://www.acesofww2.com/germany/aces/Hartmann.htm
Erich Hartman – top ace of all the time. German Luftwaffe Bf 109 Pilot.
Near the end of WWII, in early May 1945, Hartmann, then Gruppenkommandeur of famous Jagdgeschwader 52, and his Commodore, Hermann Graf, ground crew, family members, and other civilians, who had joined the squadron, seeking protection approaching Russian army, moved west in direction of territory already occupied by US troops. On May 8th, 1945, the soldiers and civilians surrendered to US troops in the region between Bavaria (German province) and Czech border. But on May 17th, the US Army delivered all of these German troops and civilians to the Red Army. How did the Russian troops treat the civilians? They tortured, raped German woman, children at least 12 years old. Some woman were shot after the rapes. Others were not so lucky. A twelve year old girl whose mother had been raped and shoot being raped by several solders. She died from these acts soon afterward. Then more Russian came, and it began all over again. During the night, entire German families committed suicide with men killing their wives and daughters, then themselves. This is the way the slavics treat the human been, the innocent civilians. This is the way the Serbs treated innocent Croatian, Bosnian and Dardanian civilians. If any entity of human been will be treated like that, then they are in title to ask and gain the independence.