Kosovo's North
CALM THOUGH UNCERTAIN
SITUATION
By Miroslav Filipovic
Denouement in Kosovo, including its north, mostly depends on NATO
estimate of how would Kosovo Serbs in the north respond to a really serious
military-police action by Kosovo Security Forces and KFOR. If the international community
assesses Serbs' violent reaction to such an action as acceptable and controllable it will
go for it - probably not before Serbia's elections in spring 2012 but will undertake it
without doubt. The news that another 17... More >>> |
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Kosovo "topic"
again on the agenda
OLD DILEMMAS, NEW
CHALLENGES
By Ivan Torov
The latest and, as it seems, the most dramatic crisis in and about
Kosovo since independence declaration probably has put a final curtain on some dilemmas
but reopened other - as if to show that not a single problem in this neuralgic Balkan
region could be solved without fresh turmoil and disturbance. Though Pristina's attempt to
take control over border-crossing points in the north by the use of special police forces
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The Balkan Region
THE INABILITY FOR
REGIONAL COOPERATION
By Vladimir Gligorov
During her recent visit to Serbia German Chancellor Angela Merkel said
what everyone knew at least since the European Union has established EULEX in Kosovo,
which - exactly what its name says - has the duty to impose rule of law. What everyone
also knows - at least since then - is that EULEX and parallel structures in Kosovo North,
both dependent and independent from Belgrade authorities - cannot exist side by side. All
that Ms. Merkel said was something like... More >>> |
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Transitional Justice
CRIME CONTINUES
(To mark August 30, International Day of the Disappeared)
By Irena Antic
Curiosity and the need to face his demons brought Edvin, today a
22-year-old, to one of the most infamous concentration camps in Brcko. In 1992, hundreds
of local Bosniaks and Croats were cruelly tortured, humiliated and killed in this place.
Most of them have never been found. He faced the Luka camp and the Sava River - the waters
of which were the resting place for so many innocent people - in the
twilight... More >>> |
