Posted on 02/22/2008 6:19:41 PM PST by jhpigott
February 22, 2008, 23:17 Tensions rise as Serbs push into Kosovo http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/21256
Kosovo border police have reported Serb tanks are taking positions near the Kosovo-Serb border. On Friday, police in Kosovo's northern city of Mitrovica have been holding off thousands of Serb protesters who were trying to cross the bridge dividing the Serb and ethnic Albanian sides of the city.
Hundreds of ethnic Serbs have arrived in the province to show their support for the Serbian minority living there. Kosovo authorities have already introduced restrictions preventing Serbs from entering the region.
Police have been given the green light to use tough measures to keep any rioting under control but apart from isolated incidents, the rally passed off peacefully.
Authorities feared a repeat of the overnight violence that gripped the Serbian capital Belgrade, killing one and injuring around 130. The violence has also resulted in damage to a number of Western embassies.
In Belgrade President Boris Tadic has called on the Council for National Security to discuss the situation in the country.
He said there was no excuse for violence and nothing could justify Thursday's unrest.
Meanwhile, Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, says alliance officials in Kosovo should not overstep the bounds of their mandate.
“Some high-ranking NATO officials are giving orders that are obviously inconsistent with their authority, such as an order to block the border in northern Kosovo, where mostly ethnic Serbs live. This means that Kosovo Serbs are cut off from Serbia itself. If the Albanians decide to break away, that doesn't mean they can seize someone else's property and citizens.
The thing is that the Serbs in Kosovo, who were previously citizens of their country, suddenly do not know who they are - Kosovars or inhabitants of an independent territory. Besides, we're disturbed by reports, although it needs checking, that some NATO military chiefs are considering whether to stop representatives of the Serbian administration entering Kosovo. This is not in their mandate. For us, the main thing is that NATO shouldn't intervene in politics, but stick to a neutral position on Kosovo, as it always did,” Rogozin said.
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I’m not an expert on the Balkans, but from everything I’ve read - the Serbs are getting screwed. The PM of Kosovo is a former(?) leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which from what I understand is defined as a terrorist group by both the UN and the US.
So now US troops under NATO and UN Peacekeeper flags are in harm’s way as it looks like a civil war is going to break out.
The only question is: Are NATO and the UN going to get involved in this new civil war?
Great, time for bed and when I wake up it’s WW3 or 4, maybe 5, could be 6.
Man, this could get ugly.
I think Kosovo is the beachhead for an intense and overt muslim invasion of all of Europe and idiots like Bill Clinton took their side in the whole thing. It could be much, much more than a “civil war”.
Hmmmmmm.....
Wait I thought Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark blow up all those Serbian Tanks back in 1998, when we bombed them for 78 days!
go serbia!!!!!!!!!
milosevic was right.....
Why leave out the "Idiots" like George W. Bush who supported the Kosovo war and has kept troops there ever since and idiots like John McCain who was a main cheerleader for Clinton's Kosovo war?
I have a bad feeling George Bush is going to pull another Clinton and bomb the wrong people again.
Ooops- there goes another chunk of Clinton’s legacy...
Hear what our secretary of state said today?
‘Rice said it is time for Serbs to accept that Kosovo is no longer theirs. She also suggested that it also time to drop centuries of grievance and sentimentality in the Balkans.’
I dont think the Serbs are going to listen to that.
Matthew 24:6:
And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. ;-)
I guess I could have included all that, sure, but the fact is that it was in his role as Comander-in-Chief that Clinton committed us to that role.
Sh!t, meet fan.
You got that right hmmmmmm
They have not shot in anger yet. So far it is only sabre rattling.
LOL! Troop trucks....
Thanks!
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