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To: FormerLib; mark502inf; Hoplite
First of would just like to say welcome back mark502inf, haven't seen you around for a while.

Secondly when it comes to Kosovo Albanian attitudes towards UNMIK now a days (or rather during the March pogrom) I'ld just like to point out something from an article I posted here from CSMonitor on this subject. The article has been posted here for your full reading: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223513/posts

"Early this year, an estimated 50,000 Albanians lashed out against the two forces now seen as blocking Kosovar ambitions for independence - ethnic Serbs and, more surprising, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The riots here in March left a brutal tally of 19 killed, 1,000 injured, Serb homes and churches burned - and dozens of UNMIK vehicles torched."

Altough it says only UNMIK vehicles were torched there is a statement at the end of the article which is rather worrying:

But any alternative short of statehood, or even perpetuating the status quo, may trigger more violence- against minorities, against UNMIK, even among Albanians. "In March we opened their eyes a little, for them to see what can happen in the future," says Redenica, the war-invalids leader. "We're dedicated to independence. And whoever gets in the way, Albanians will not take it calmly."

43 posted on 09/24/2004 11:12:24 PM PDT by Jane_N (Truth, like beauty....is in the eyes of the beholder! And please DON'T feed the trolls!)
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To: Jane_N

Jane, ignore this article due for its propensity of skewered news releases.


44 posted on 09/25/2004 8:46:30 AM PDT by ma bell (Niti cemo se pokoriti, niti ukloniti We shall neither yield or submit.)
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