What is Kosovo problem?

Question

Are the conflicts historical or political?

Answer 1

I think the stem of the problems are political and religious.

The majority ethnic Albanian region is still considered by the international community to be part of Serbia, but has been under UN and NATO administration since 1999 when a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Albanians led to NATO bombing of Serbia.

Though desperate to end this limbo, Albanian Kosovars say they will settle for nothing less than independence. Serbia, which has the backing of Russia – one of the five veto-wielding members of the Security Council – insists it will never consent to lose a region it sees as its historical heartland. Serbia threatened unspecified measures against countries that supported Kosovo's independence absent a Security Council resolution.

International negotiators had initially hoped that the promise of closer ties to the rest of Europe – and eventual EU membership – might help lessen Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's independence. When that proved unlikely, the negotiators turned to the Security Council for a mandate that could move the province toward statehood.

But Russia has said it will not support independence while Serbia remains opposed, and observers say there is little hope for a negotiated settlement between Serbia and Kosovo.

Answer 2

Problem in Kosovom American administration which aimed to dismember the greatest socialistic state of Europe provoked initially. CIA was able took advantage of difference of religious perception of population of this multinational country. now a conflict reposes on the personal interest of Americans and extremists from Kosovo. I will not be surprised, when will turn out - how many money America paid all of these extremists for this conflict. To the simple people in Kosovo war is not needed. And gangsters - does not have nationality, it is kithless degenerates of different people.

There are no real problems in Kosovo, except for artificially created the successful actions of CIA.

It is possible long to look around in the pas back, in place of that one time to look on present tense and to give a glance in the future.

Answer 3

Or maybe religion?

Kosovo was occupied, taken by military force and retaken since Romans. My understanding that people in Kosovo are Muslims since Ottoman invasion and Serbs are Christians. I think you can guess the rest...

Answer 4

The future conflicts are historical, and unprecedented, and will involve much more than just Kosovo.

The problem is with the enemies of man, who will be vanquished and cast down.

All those whose doctrine is contrary to the teachings of the Son will be numbered with the beast, and will have the same fate as the one who was cast down, and sealed shut.

Answer 5

The problem is always political, with historical-political implications. The historical-political part of the problem are the events that led to such a constellation which created the political conditions of today.

History is interpreted and manipulated by politicians.

The twist of what happened in history is in what Tito started. He started slowly detaching Kosovo from Serbia. When he died, the Albanians continued this stream, but the Serbs halted it. Of course, this led to escalation of events (*), with NATO entering the story and creating a humanitarian catastrophe (it is then when the population really started fleeing from Kosovo and when most of the blood was spilt...), throwing 15-20 tons of depleted uranium over a population they supposedly came to protect.

What a culmination of mediatic propaganda, satanization of Serbs and hypocrisy.

Speaking of the problem itself at this same moment, it is the activity of USA against Russia in which the Kosovo Albanians found their momentum against Serbia - detachment of sovereign territory. Will they succeed or not, only depends on USA and Russia.

I wonder what the Albanians have to say about the depleted uranium in Kosovo... How long will it stay there? Why did the Americans they love so much, do that really bad (but really really bad) thing to them.

Depleted uranium will stay in Kosovo much longer than any political or historical problem imaginable by humans. Even if it gets washed away, it could one day flow back to USA.

I say that depleted uranium is the biggest problem of Kosovo. Not the coexistential disbalance between Serbs and Albanians created by a third factor, nor the fact that if it hadn't been that way, both Albanians and Serbs would have enjoyed the EU passport by now, although the flourishing of Albanian business might not be undertaking the same routes (who cares for the one cent more given to the customs :P).


*This is critical for understanding the entire issue. To shorten the story, the independence movement was followed by police oppression. The Serbs continued leaving Kosovo, after having started leaving it during WW2, due to not only silent pressure but also due to economic reasons. The Albanian population, which has priorly gotten there in large numbers as immigration from Albania, and was undergoing a demographic explosion, was becoming more and more unified against Serbia. At some point, they started investing into American lobbies...

I disagree with Selena that the problems are religious (Her answer sounds rather taken from some journalist source in the copy and paste manner...). Albanians are Catholics in Albania and Muslim in Kosovo. Serbia is a tolerant religious state. It should rather be said that the different Albanian culture; tribal and of different religion, could not be socially absorpted by Serbia, what repercussioned in the political sphere.

Ethnic cleansing, if there was any at all under that simplified and political definition, was not the motive of NATO to "conquer" Serbian territory. NATO started bombing Serbia only when the Yugoslav military forces took control over the terrorist hotspots in Kosovo (after the famous Racak scenario).






PS. Giving me thumbs down and living in denial about the effects of depleted uranium in Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia, not to mention Iraq... Albanians can be escaping all their lives, but the missery of leukemia, "bad" babies and a number of delayed effects, will be worse as time comes. Cancer had reached 200% and the numbers are growing. Search for any link and you will get the idea.

You see, we may all start living tomorrow in progressive peace and love, have interethnic marriages, face a common enemy coming from outer space or anything, but depleted uranium will remain, remain and remain... until the Sun burns Earth, and perhaps even after that, as a friendly reminder of a monster who was summoned by our Albanian neighbours in their desire to show us or anyone who depends on the soil and water, who they are and what they are made of, from the deepest of their soul...

Bastards.

Answer 6

I had to look at my old history notes for this, so I'll try to sum it up:
Basically, the problem has to deal with refugees coming from Kosovo. Milosevic, a leader who started the term, "ethnic cleasing" or commonly know as genocide, wanted to ethnically cleanse Kosovo because the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) was trying to fight for independence from Yugoslavia. Many people fled because of this, and the problem is somewhat clearing up. It's not as bad as 10 years ago.

Answer 7

Not both. They are religious, concerning the Muslims and Christians of Serbia and Montenegro; or (Kosovo).

Answer 8

5). Henry Kissinger-----One of many Pentagon Advisors, Kissinger sits on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle. Kissinger had a part in the Watergate crimes,
Southeast Asia mass murders, Chile dictatorship, and more recently served as Serbian Dictator Slobodan Milosevic's Advisor.

Now, why was this not on CNN?