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David

David — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Post-independence Kosovo lacks effective international protection for minorities, which is worsening the situation for smaller minorities and forcing some to leave the country.

Otto

Otto — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

poor people but unfortunately it is hardly surprising...

Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It is sad to see many Western governments give only lip service to minority rights in the developing countries. When minorities fight back the regimes that deny their birth right of freedom, West equates this rebellion to International Terrorism.

Janise

Janise — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

No need to worry folks, my country refers to Kosovo as a “multiethnic” “democratic” and “functioning state”, and anything the US says must be true.

Mladen

Mladen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Nobody cares if you are the loser of the war especially if you are the “evil doers” as well. The largest ethnic cleansing in history happened in 1945 but as it was “only” Germans nobody gave a stuff.

Kosovo’s Serbs would do better to find a home elsewhere as the International Community appears firmly to be on the side of the Albanians.

Jean vincent

Jean Vincent — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Possibly, but this isn’t just some intra-Kosovo problem. There’s always Belgrade in the background building up its case for partition, and the Kosovo government hasn’t been doing too much to justify the viability of the mini-state... The west has taken its eyes off the ball as far as Kosovo is concerned, deluding itself that the whole Balkan mess has somehow been “sorted”.

Sedat

Sedat — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Albanian dream of a having a monoethnic society in KOSOVO is becoming more and more clearer, despite the weak international calls against it.

Col

Col — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Human rights are of paramount importance. International co-operation will be vital, through rebuilding projects and additional infrastructure investment, if stability in Kosovo is ever to be improved. But for international aid agencies and NGOs to perform an effective and lasting legacy, foreign aid needs to start flowing in rebuilding broken communities. It’s prime objective, undoubtedely, should be to resettle as quickly as possible the many thousands of displaced refugees.

Hassan

Hassan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ppl are fleeing Bulgaria, Romania and Poland let alone Kosovo.

Its not discrimination, its about economy. 10x more Albanians leave then all minorities combined.

Gaurav

Gaurav — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Not your fault Hassan!

Sadly, the international community has completely failed the peoples of the Balkan. The stuborn unwillingness of NATO and the UN to deal with the consequences of the ethnic conflicts in Kosovo and Bosnia is simply bewildering! It is not good enough to come in and stop the fire but not defuse the simmering flames of the conflct. If Kosovo and Bosnia are to be stable entities in the future the international community will have to play a bit more of a role in structuring the state and civil society in those countries in order to achieve a lasting peace.

It is outrageous that the granting of independence to Kosovo has resulted in the disappearance of Serbs and other non-Albanians in that country . How can such a result be a just peace?

Mo

Mo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This is an example of another failed USA nation-building project. I am disgusted as an American. I hope that Obama, and administrations forward, will not exploit people in other parts of the world for their own geo-political ambitions. As the first poster said, poor people.