EU leaders have called on Kosovo Albanians not to jump to any unilateral declaration of independence, since any future Kosovon state would need the support of other EU countries. However, in all of this not so much has been said about what Serbia would do if Kosovo declares independence.
Serbs believe Kosovo is the heart of the Serbian nation and that it must forever remain a part of Serbia. Writing on an earlier blog post of mine one Serb wrote:
"Serbs have become a minority in Kosovo over the past 60 years due to misgovernment and the opening of borders by a totalitarian communist regime which we dared not rise against because we saw what Stalin did to his own people in the USSR"
"And don't even start with Kosovans. There is no such thing. There are Serbs and there are Albanians. And there never have been and never will be any Kosovans. "
"And I see absolutely no reason why Albanians should be allowed to have Kosovo to themselves when 60 years ago there were no more than 100,000 of them there, and when they have their own country right across the border. What we did to them is no more than what you would do to anyone who would try to take away a part of your own country because one day they woke up and decided to do so."
Now these could be the isolated comments of one angry nationalistic Serb, or it could be one Serb voicing the opinions of a nation who will not sit back and let a part of their country be taken away from them. While Kosovo is protected by the UN, there is not much Serbia can do, but how long with that last, a decade? 50 years, a century?
Nationalistic identities and beliefs do not die out so easily as has been shown time and time again in Ireland, Palestine etc..
If this is the case a Kosovo Albanian state might not be so secure in the long run.
A sign of life
6 months ago
8 comments:
I want to say this about this blog:
I just hope that people who read this blog about Kosovo are not that stupid to belive this bull shit your are telling us.
Nazif
Nazif,
I am making the point that the feeling in Serbia is that Kosovo is, and always should, be part of Serbia. The qotes on my blogg are from a Serb writing on an earlier blogg I wrote. Since Serbia has already entered Kosovo once to drive out the Albanian population, isn't it right to consider how they might react to a declaration of independence now?
I am just asking the question here.
So what part of this is bullshit?
Allow me to ask you a question. Is the UK ready for Northern Irelands indepenence? Or more fittingly, an pakistanian nation somewhere in England?
What you consider to be the obvious solution for Kosovo would in any other context appear ridiculous. Your bias is clear and so is mine, but Kosovo and Metohija (the region is actually two regions) and what is happening there is far more complicated than you could concieve. Im guessing this is true, otherwise you wouldnt ask such a one sided question.
If the people of Scotland or Ireland wanted independence they could have a referendum and decide the matter democraticaly.
In the 1970s Scotland voted on devolution but the vote went in favour of keeping the status quo.
That how democracy works.
Hmm, I niether asked about Scotland nor Ireland, but rather Northern Ireland. And once again it's obviously clear you have no clue what you are talking about. You cant compare Scotland to Kosovo. Its not a union between serbs and albanians. Its serbian territory with an Albanian majority a majority that has only lasted for the last 50 years. It makes it complicated, no?
The UKs democratic peaceloving way of handling peoples wish for independence is very admireable. The massacres in India, war in the Falkland, the harrasment of the irish for hundreds of years. All of the oppression and legal hunting for negros in Afrika, the list is unbelievebly long. Your beloved democracy is not the elevated idea of perfect human conduct that you seem to believe.
Yngve,
My mistake, I did mean to write Northern Ireland, but my point holds that if the majority in Northern Ireland wanted to break away they could do so if that is what the majority voted for. This is made clear in the Ireland Act of 1954.
The Falkands War came about after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands as a nationalistic stunt to help bolster up a military president who was loosing popularity at home. As for the rest, you can dig into the past of any country to find faillings if you go back far enough, eller hur?
Now, I am not trying to unravel the situation on Kosovo, since as you said it is very complicated. I rather was trying to illustrate how complex it might be, if the general feeling in Serbia as a whole is as strong as those voiced on my blog. The Serbian government at least has made it very clear it opposes independence for the provine.
What a nice post. I really love reading these types or articles. I can?t wait to see what others have to say.
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