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.
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