Footsteps in Kosovo

Written looking at Kosovo briefly from history - the day before; the war years - yesterday; the author takes to her heart the Kosovo of today. Determined to attempt to analysis her attraction year-old Kristina returns To find her affinity, interest, intensifying.

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To Dream of Pigs: Travels in South and North Korea. The withdrawal of UNMIK and Kosovar police from north Mitrovica underscores just how serious the security situation is viewed by those in charge. From now on, KFOR soldiers will keep the peace -- resorting to military means if necessary. Washington and Brussels are all too aware that any concessions to Belgrade would only serve to enrage Albanians, but also provoke them to take matters into their own hands. There is no lack of youths who would love nothing more than to follow in the footsteps of the legendary former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

It's a nightmare for the international community, which naively supported the independence of Kosovo in the hope it would stabilize the Balkans. According to the EU's special envoy, Peter Feith, and Kosovo's Albanian leaders, Belgrade is -- yet again -- the main culprit behind the unrest. However, Serbia seems to be completely out of its depth.

Its political leaders -- regardless of party -- are unable to offer a real solution to the plight of their close to , compatriots who have stayed behind in Kosovo. The appeals to stick it out bear an embarrassing resemblance to an election campaign that seems already to have begun. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica dissolved the governing coalition on March 8 because of "irreconcilable differences of opinion," and a new election has been set for May We will pay back the international community for what they have done to us," Serbia's Minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, said Monday.

He said he had already held talks with the Kremlin on how they could work together to stop all future violence against Serbia. Kostunica has also accused the international community of setting out to punish Serbs again, choosing the fourth anniversary of Albanian attacks on Serbian monasteries and villages.

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The vice president of the extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic, has demanded that pro-European Serbian President Boris Tadic to call on "his friends in the West" to stop their vandalism, killing and bullying of Serbs in Kosovo. The actions, he said, could no longer be tolerated. Unofficially, the stars are sometimes said to represent the six regions, which according to Albanian ultra nationalist ideology, make up Greater Albania: The Albanian flag remains popular with Kosovo Albanians.

As Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations -governed entity within its sovereign territory , the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija Serbian: Even months after Kosovo's declaration of independence, the Serbian flag was still seen at official government buildings until officially replaced by the Kosovo Government. Until , Kosovo did not have a flag of its own. However, during different periods of history, different flags were flown in Kosovo.

If a nationalist flag were flown, such as Albanian, Serbian or Croatian, a person could go to prison for doing it. In , the Kosovar Albanian population was able to use the Albanian flag as its national flag. Before the death of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito and the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia, there were calls for the Albanian flag to be banned because residents in Kosovo did not want to live under a foreign flag.

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However, the flag used by the Kosovar Albanian population was the Albanian flag. Regulations stated only the UN flag and other authorised flags, like those of cities, could fly on public buildings. If the Albanian flag did have to go up, then the Serbian flag must go up too, according to UN regulations. A competition for a new flag, held in June , received entries. Red and black are the colours used on the Albanian flag; red, blue and white are the main colours used on the Serbian flag. Additionally, all entries had to be rectangular and have a 2: The Kosovo Symbols Commission eventually selected three designs, [4] which were then voted on by the Assembly of Kosovo with a two-thirds majority required for approval , when independence was declared after the status talks.

The assembly voted on 17 February to use a variant of the first proposal. The modified version has an additional star, makes the stars equal in size, switches the colours of the stars and map, makes the map bigger, and arranges the stars in a curve above the map. Ibrahim Rugova , the first president of Kosovo , introduced the "flag of Dardania" on October 29, The flag was blue, inscribed with a red disc with a golden ring.

Flag of Kosovo

Inside the red disc is the Albanian eagle. The eagle is holding a ribbon with the legend " Dardania " inscribed. Dardania is the name of an ancient region in the same general area as Kosovo, but is not officially recognised by any international power. The Flag of Dardania is shown as the Presidential Flag on the Kosovo presidency website, making it official. Prior to the declaration of independence, Kosovars displayed a flag featuring a map of Kosovo against a blue and yellow background, similar to the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.