True story of Kosovo

Sir -- I am a serving army officer and I have just returned off leave. I read your article on Kosovo with great interest. It was excellent, I really am fed up reading the UN propaganda that is blindly regurgitated by most visiting journalists.

While undoubtedly United Nations' Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has improved the country and the lot of the Kosovar Albanians in particular, as an international organisation it could have done so much better. So well done for telling it as it is!

The population is as divided as ever, freedom of movement for the K/Serbs is mostly a myth. Mistrust is endemic in both communities.

Unemployment is very high, rising to 90 per cent in K/Serb areas. The economy is a basket case with virtually no industry. The black economy is thriving, this of course only benefits the corrupt.

Crime is best forgotten. The local police are touted as a success story. A constable is paid €225 per month, there is no retirement pension and if he/she is injured or killed in the line of duty there is no sick pay or compensation. Not exactly motivation to risk oneself for the cause of law and order!

Anyway, sorry for sounding off on the subject. I was just so delighted to see that you did not fall for the usual spin on how wonderfully things have developed here. You renewed my faith in journalists.

EU is trying to handle dis by occupation-colonialism- gauleiter style.

Actualy EU constructed EULEX mission that is supporting construction of institutions for independant (islamofascist) Kosovo.
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EU sent its colonial administration to legalise succession of Kosovo.

And it seems that EULEX mission failed, not just cause Serbia said it ownt accept it, or Russia being against, but also some EU countries said that they “wont touch Kosovo mess”.

I liked this response from someone named David. Particularly the part about making it up as they go along. He is right there.

“Kosova”, as the Kosovo Albanians call it, is a basketcase area and should never have been recognised as a state. Negotiations on the future of the area were conducted in a situation where one side ie the Kosovo Albanians already had a promise from the US that it would recognise a declaration of independence, which was not exactly condusive to fruitful talks and realism !

The area has neither the capacity nor the capability to govern itself and survives on foreign monies, both legal and illegal.

In addition, although much has been made of Milosevic’s treatment of the Albanians there, we hear very little from our media and the EU and US elite about the disgusting ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the area since Milosevic’s army was obliged to withdraw.

Recognition of it as a country is a joke, albeit at the expense of international law. Essentially what has happened here is that larger countries ie US backed up (as ever ) by Britain and supported by France and Germany have come along and unilaterally declared that they recognise part of a sovereign country as a separate independent state because the majority of people in that part are of a different ethnicity to the majority in the state as a whole.

In clear and flagrant breach of international law, they have blatently ignored the principle that recognises the territorial sovereignty of states - by accepting that part of a sovereign state has the right to secede without that state’s consent.

Further, given that they are now making it up as they go along and are in uncharted waters, they have the audacity to propose that the EU will somehow manage the administration of this “entity”. What arrogance! No wonder that Serbs, who are the most European of peoples, feel aggrieved and wronged at this meddling by the US and its “friends”.

The Irish government, giving in to pressure from the US and its larger “friends”, has been complicit in this shameful act. Dermot Ahern as Foreign Minister who recommended to the Government that Kosovo be recognised should be ashamed of himself.

Fortunately most countries have had the good sense not recognise it and ultimately this experiment in “whatever your having yourself” statemaking is doomed to failure.

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