Kosova - a New Country

KOSOVA - A New Country

I’m sure everyone of you heard about the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo. I got online and searched for informations and pictures about Kosovo. Reading some historical references I found out about how Tito included Kosovo in Yugoslavia.

After Tito died, in 1981 Albanians started fighting Serbians for their “rightful” country. They even asked for unification with Albania. In 1992 the first president of Kosovo was elected. His name was Ibrahim Rugova and he was the one who started building the republic of Kosovo. People had access to their own churches, hospitals, schools and many more but the republic had no army until 1997 when UCK (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës), the Kosovo Liberation Army started fighting Serbians. Their main goal was to obtain independence of Kosovo no matter what, even if people were killed during the process.

The result? Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Kosovo are describing horrifying stories of Serb atrocities

More than 10.000 Albanians were murdered and many more were forced to move out of Kosovo, in order to survive. Later Slobodan Milosevici was accused by the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. Slobodan was 64 and died of a heart attack in his cell while waiting for the verdict.

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Martti Ahtisaari, a UN emissary was sent to Serbia to find the ideal solution regarding the future of Kosovo.
In 2006 the president of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova died. Fatmir Sejdiu took his place and soon after Albanians and Serbians had begun negotiations.

In 2007 emissary Martti Ahtisaari, presented the Ahtisaari Plan.

Russia, having the right of veto, pleaded for Serbia and blocked the Ahtisaari Plan. United States, Russia, France, England, Germany and Italy sent an American, a Russian and an European to try to get to an agreement between Albanians and Serbians but the negotiations failed.
On February 17, 2008 authorities from Kosovo announced their unilateral declaration of independence. “Russia’s parliament passed a motion Monday condemning Kosovo’s declaration of independence, which means a loss of 15 percent of Serbia’s territory. Serbia ordered home its ambassadors in the U.S., France and Turkey as rebukes for recognizing the tiny new nation of 2 million people.”

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