The big secret is that Kosovo is overwhelmingly inhabited by people neither Serb nor Christian and it has been that way for centuries. One needed to be deaf dumb and blind to fail to notice that under Miloschevic the non Serb population was being systematically driven from the province by state terror. Could anyone living through the time of Miloshivic actually have missed this? The re writing of that history by a vocal contingent here on FR has been very effective. After all Clinton was directing foreign policy at the time. I despise that guy as much as anyone. AND the victim population was Muslim, not my favorites either. But facts is facts, and I pray the Russians are not doing to the Georgians what their little brothers tried to accomplish in Bosnia, Kraijina and Kosovo over a decade ago.
Rather than the big secret, don't you mean the big lie?
The general run of articles on kosovo demographics is that Albanians only got over 50% sometime between 1912 and 1950, through a high birthrate and illegal immigration.
Allowing such demographic-driven secessions is a very dangerous thing in world politics.
Dude, please brush up on your history of the region before you come out with stuff like this. Up until the 60s (1960s, that is), the population was roughly evenly split - half Serb, half Albanian. Then the Albanians got their "autonomy" (1968, expanded in 1974) and the Serbian population began steadily declining. By 1989 every 10th person in Kosovo-Metohia was of Serbian descent, as opposed to every other. That was the only ethnic cleansing occurring in Kos-Met.