Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Some never learn the lesson

Some nations never learn the lesson. More than 600 years ago, in a battle with the Balkans armies lead by Tsar Lazar, the Ottoman empire occupied the whole Western Balkans after one of the final famous battles- the Battle of Kosova, defeating primarily serbs on the 28th of June. This was the point when Serbia ended up under Ottoman empire for next 500 years...After hundreds of years, this myth was well presented as serb victory over the orient.

On the 28th of June 2008 there is a proclamation that the Kosovo Serbs want to inagurate their parliament in the South of Kosova and I think that some nations never learn the lesson...

The real question here is that: what does it take to a nation to learn a lesson...

Some of the important events that took place in this particular date are:

  1. 1389 - Ottoman and Balkans armies fight in the Battle of Kosova oppening the way for Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
  2. 1914 - Gavrillo Princip assasinates Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia- the casus belli for the start of the First World War
  3. 1989 - Slobodan Milosevic celebrates the 600th anniversary of the 'victory' over Ottoman Empire
  4. 2006 - Montenegro, formerly part of Serbia/Yugoslavia admitted a seat in the UN.
  5. 2008 - Inaguration of a parlament of serbs in Kosova...

Another 'sucess' for serbia...

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