Following the Kosovo crisis

About the Author: Henrietta H. Fore is Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Director of Foreign Assistance for the U.S. Department of State. When future historians look back on our era, they will be as dismayed as the rest of us by the ethnic conflict and violence that tore apart the former Yugoslavia after the collapse of communism. After all, the future was supposed to be about peace, not war. But history was not yet done as war came to the Balkans, and... Read Full Story

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Over 1,300 Kosovo Serbs in addition to those for whom we know they have been killed and whose remains were handed over to their families by the U.N.M.I.K during the past 8 years, are still listed as missing. In some cases the entire families were kidnapped by the K.L.A at some point during the 1998-1999 war, and after U.N and NATO took over the administration and security of the southern Serbian province. These people were taken away in an unknown direction and, for all we know, disappeared... Read Full Story

Author: DR.ABDUL RUFF Colachal                                                                           Analyst, Researcher & Commentator                                                                           Delhi On 17 February 2008, the Serbian Southern province of Kosovo in South-eastern Europe declared independence from Republic of Serbia and proclaimed itself new Republic of Kosovo. New Republic of Kosovo was later recognized by few sovereign states, mainly the USA. Kosovo now... Read Full Story

Occupied Kosovo is the unfinished business of the “destruction” of Yugoslavia, and the defeat of the Ottomans in Europe. As Turkey retreated East of the Bosphorus, it left behind many islands of Muslims totally surrounded by their former enemies. Hounded by enemies on all sides, it is amazing that these Muslims survived at all. Bosnia-Hersogovina, Macedonia, and Croatia are independent, but Kosovo remains occupied by Serbia. After the destruction, and then cutting down of Bosnia, a fatigued... Read Full Story