Kosovo Police

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Kosovo Police

Tension rises in Kosovo after the Kosovo police attempted to take control of two border crossings with Serbia, causing the European Union’s mission to Kosovo to call for immediate negotiations to solve the crisis.

Kosovo’s special police were sent to a border crossing into the northern region inhabited by the Serbian-minority, and local Serbians blocked the road to prevent such things from occurring again.

EU mission called for dialogue maintaining that the action of the Kosovo forces was carried on without consultation of the international community and that it was not even helpful.

European Union’s mission in the region said they disapproved of the action of the Kosovo police, and warned that an escalation of tension is very dangerous for this area. NATO peacekeepers deployed troops in the zone to ensure that the situation does not escalate.

Serbia imposed an embargo on Kosovo in 2008, when the region declared unilaterally independence in February and was recognized by more than 70 countries in the world.

Serbian Protest: Kosovo Is Serbia!

Last week, Kosovo authorities banned imports from Serbia, as a countermeasure to the embargo imposed by Belgrade.

The Kosovo case is the only thing that Serbia has not resolved yet so that her claim to membership of European Union be approved at Brussels.

Last week, the Serbian security service arrested Goran Hadzic, former leader of the Croatian Serb Republic of Krajina, instituted on Croatian territory and disbanded in 2005 by Zagreb’s army.

Hadzic was delivered to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, being the last one of a long list of suspects for crimes against humanity and for war crimes the tribunal wanted to apprehend. His apprehension proves the fact that Serbia did her part in the cooperation with the international body, and now can begin the process of admission to the European Union, vital to her economy after two decades of wars and exclusion.

Still, after this cooperation that started with the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the man who defied the entire international community and stood his ground for more than 70 days of fierce bombing of his country by NATO’s army, but who was also accused by the international community of many crimes against humanity, and by the people in his land by ruining it because of his hard-line nationalism, it continued with various generals and leaders of the Serbian entities created on the crumbling territory of former Yugoslavia.

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Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic were also among those whom Serbia had to hand over in time to the ICTY. Many Serbians still think they are heroes. They write messages in their support, and wear T-shirts with their names on them. Recently, Romanian Football Federation was fined for allowing a banner during a match between the national teams of the two neighboring countries on which Ratko Mladic was praised as a hero.

Now, that the suspects for crimes were handed over to the tribunal in the Hague, where Milosevic expired of a heart attack before receiving a sentence against him, Serbians expect their country not to be asked for more sacrifices.

But the Kosovo file still looms over their hopes to become European citizens. The lost of this province seems compelling, if they are to even begin to think seriously of EU. The international body cannot accept them with a conflict at their border. Besides, Kosovo may ask for membership in its own time.

The problem with Kosovo is that the province is the cradle of Serbian civilization. It is there that the most famous Serbian monasteries are, most of them in ruins, after being bombed by NATO or defiled by Muslim Kosovars. It is there that there medieval princes defended to the cost of their lives the statehood of Serbia and it is also there that they lost it to the Ottomans.

It is very much unlikely that a secession will be accepted by Serbian leadership, and it is probable that a political solution will be found to consider the sensitivity of the problem and the aspirations of both Kosovars and Serbians.

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