Many would have come across this news already, though what was heard on the news may only have focused on the 'US embassy being aflame in Belgrado'.
The inevitable bad day had come. They managed to rip the Kosovo limb from its natural Serbian body.
Putting this here for continuity and archival purposes.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080224/15/15xtl.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Monday February 25, 04:15 AM
<b>Serbia back on Kosovo offensive, with Russian help</b>
BELGRADE (Reuters) - <b>Serbia was back on the offensive over Kosovo's independence on Sunday, blaming the United States for crisis in the Balkans while its ally Russia accused the Americans of destroying "world order."</b>
Three days after young rioters in Belgrade embarrassed the country by attacking Western embassies and looting shops, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said it is Washington that is threatening peace and stability.
(News' wording makes it sound like Serbia and Russia are unreasonable and hysterical. Facts are entirely different.)
In a strongly worded statement from Moscow, Russia also accused Washington of trampling on international law.
<b>"The United States must annul the decision to recognize a false state on the territory of Serbia," Kostunica said. "It must reaffirm U.N. Security Council resolution 1244, which guarantees Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity."</b>
"Continuation of the policy of force will deepen the crisis that undermines the foundations of world order and threatens peace and stability in the Balkans," he said.
Serbia has expressed official regret for riots last Thursday during which the U.S. embassy was attacked and set on fire. The mission sent dependents and support staff to Croatia for safety.
This week, Serbia is getting high-level support from Moscow. Kostunica is due to host Russian President Vladimir Putin's likely successor, Dmitry Medvedev, on Monday.
<b>The Russian foreign ministry</b>, in a statement, again demanded a "compromise" on Kosovo, which diplomats believe is headed for partition, although Serbia has never formally proposed it.
<b>"Do support for the Kosovo Albanian side alone, contempt for law for the sake of so-called 'political expediency', and indifference to the fate of a hundred thousand Serbs who... are effectively being driven into a ghetto not amount to flagrant cynicism?" it said.</b>
(Yikes. Scary future for these Serbs there. They're now in the hands of islamic nazis who are supported by the US <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> The nazis will torment them, while the US will get the media to ignore such events or otherwise turn news reports around to make the islamics the victims. As they have so often done.)
<b>"Is it not cynical that the Serb people is being openly humiliated while Belgrade is being promised a Euro-Atlantic future if it agrees to the carve-up of Serbia?"</b>
(Grand-scale experiment US is performing on unfortunate Serbia and Serbians.)
The foreign ministry statement recalled that Russia had a peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo from 1999 to 2004, under the aegis of the NATO-led KFOR force which has 17,000 troops there.
"It was withdrawn due to our fundamental disagreement with bias favoring one side in Kosovo matters..." the ministry said.
Instead of supporting Kosovo Albanian independence and other actions "destroying world order," there must be a "a decision based on law and compromise between Belgrade and Pristina," the ministry statement said.
<b>It did not say what compromise Russia has in mind. But on the ground in Kosovo, ethnic Serbs in the north are making steady efforts to resist the authority of the new state and its Western backers, with the support of Serbia and Russia.</b>
Russia has not yet openly proposed a return of Russian troops to Kosovo. But is U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin has warned that it will not stand by and allow Kosovo Serbs to be forced to accept the rule of the new republic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->At least Russia is loyal. Hopefully Serbia may yet get their Kosovo back, ideally with no losses on any side.
http://au.news.yahoo.com//080227/15/15z6s.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thursday February 28, 02:18 AM
<b>Kosovo Serbs call for return of Russian troops</b>
PRISTINA (Reuters) - <b>Serbs in Kosovo called on Wednesday for the return of Russian peacekeepers to the country after the ethnic Albanian majority's declaration of independence from Serbia this month.</b>
The call was made by the Serb National Council, a grouping of Kosovo Serb leaders in the Serb stronghold of northern Mitrovica.
<b>"The Serb National Council calls on Russia to return its KFOR contingent, to stabilize the situation in areas where Serbs are in the majority," Council leader Milan Ivanovic said.</b>
Russia withdrew its troops from the NATO-led Kosovo Force, KFOR, in mid-2003, four years after being deployed with 45,000 others after an 11-week NATO air war to save Kosovo Albanians from ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces fighting guerrillas.
(Oh, no, the "ethnic cleansing" refrain again. Repeat a lie a million times and it turns into the 'truth' for western media. After all, must manufacture consent for creation of independent Kosovo. And nothing like shocking claims of 'ethnic cleansing' to sway the gullible public.
What, they haven't mentioned 'mass graves'. It's a miracle. Or maybe it's just that they don't want to be caught with too many obvious lies in one article...)
The international force is now down to 16,000 soldiers.
<b>Kosovo's 120,000 remaining Serbs, almost half of whom live in a thin slice of land in the north adjacent to Serbia, have rejected the February 17 secession, which was backed by the West but condemned by Serbia and Russia.</b>
(US will decide what will happen to <i>other</i> countries, how dare Serbia - or even historical ally, nearby Russia - say anything at all about Kosovo; it so obviously doesn't even concern them.
arcasm
Maybe Kosovo's Albanians want to move to the US now, since the US has been so generous with others' land it will be even more generous with its own. No?)
In a statement on Sunday, the Russian foreign ministry demanded a compromise solution on Kosovo -- something the West has assessed as impossible after almost two years of inconclusive negotiations.
The ministry recalled that Russia had previously had a peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo -- possibly pointing to plans to propose a return of Russian troops to the territory, in ethnic Serb areas that resist Albanian rule.
In a new sign of the deepening ethnic divide, dozens of Serb officers in the Kosovo police service failed to report for duty on Wednesday in the eastern Gnjilane region.
"The majority of Kosovo Serb police officers in the Gnjilane region have not shown up for work this morning," said regional police spokesman Ismet Hashani. He did not give a reason.
Senior police sources have told Reuters that Serb officers in the Kosovo police no longer receive orders from Pristina headquarters, but coordinate activities with the U.N. police and mayors in Serb areas.
A minister in Belgrade said the developments were all part of Serbia's plan to isolate Kosovo and strengthen Belgrade's grip on Serb areas, which some analysts fear could try to split from the new republic.
"We are planning to have our local police in Serb towns in Kosovo," Infrastructure Minister Velimir Ilic said on Belgrade's independent Radio B92. "It is part of the action plan."
(Additional reporting by Fatos Bytyci; writing by Matt Robinson; editing by Andrew Roche)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->NATO really has the Fatal Touch. Wherever they go they create division and permanent problems. Why can't they keep their divisive tactics to themselves.
Hopefully, with any luck, the islamoterrorist Albanian KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army or whatever) may move their target-practise onto NATO rather than Serbians.
Western christianity really hates Orthodox christianity - the way they didn't let the Greeks retrieve their Turkish-occupied land (now Turkey) after the war; the way they have been ruthlessly meddling in Orthodox countries.
Hopefully Serbia will learn from India and TSP split. If they ever decide that the split is final, they have to make a 100% population transfer. Never ever let a single other religion (catholicism, protestantism, islamism) infest what land remains to Serbians again. Never let a (foreign) tyrant of other religion - specifically catholicism, protestantism, islam - take power. Never let US/other western missionaries, such as the Baptists, in. Never let communists write their histories; in fact, send communists into islamic Albania instead - make it part of the population transfer. Never let western countries own/infiltrate media houses in Serbian lands. The rest of their future will take care of itself then: no more strife or conflict, and that will mean development.
The inevitable bad day had come. They managed to rip the Kosovo limb from its natural Serbian body.
Putting this here for continuity and archival purposes.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080224/15/15xtl.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Monday February 25, 04:15 AM
<b>Serbia back on Kosovo offensive, with Russian help</b>
BELGRADE (Reuters) - <b>Serbia was back on the offensive over Kosovo's independence on Sunday, blaming the United States for crisis in the Balkans while its ally Russia accused the Americans of destroying "world order."</b>
Three days after young rioters in Belgrade embarrassed the country by attacking Western embassies and looting shops, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said it is Washington that is threatening peace and stability.
(News' wording makes it sound like Serbia and Russia are unreasonable and hysterical. Facts are entirely different.)
In a strongly worded statement from Moscow, Russia also accused Washington of trampling on international law.
<b>"The United States must annul the decision to recognize a false state on the territory of Serbia," Kostunica said. "It must reaffirm U.N. Security Council resolution 1244, which guarantees Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity."</b>
"Continuation of the policy of force will deepen the crisis that undermines the foundations of world order and threatens peace and stability in the Balkans," he said.
Serbia has expressed official regret for riots last Thursday during which the U.S. embassy was attacked and set on fire. The mission sent dependents and support staff to Croatia for safety.
This week, Serbia is getting high-level support from Moscow. Kostunica is due to host Russian President Vladimir Putin's likely successor, Dmitry Medvedev, on Monday.
<b>The Russian foreign ministry</b>, in a statement, again demanded a "compromise" on Kosovo, which diplomats believe is headed for partition, although Serbia has never formally proposed it.
<b>"Do support for the Kosovo Albanian side alone, contempt for law for the sake of so-called 'political expediency', and indifference to the fate of a hundred thousand Serbs who... are effectively being driven into a ghetto not amount to flagrant cynicism?" it said.</b>
(Yikes. Scary future for these Serbs there. They're now in the hands of islamic nazis who are supported by the US <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> The nazis will torment them, while the US will get the media to ignore such events or otherwise turn news reports around to make the islamics the victims. As they have so often done.)<b>"Is it not cynical that the Serb people is being openly humiliated while Belgrade is being promised a Euro-Atlantic future if it agrees to the carve-up of Serbia?"</b>
(Grand-scale experiment US is performing on unfortunate Serbia and Serbians.)
The foreign ministry statement recalled that Russia had a peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo from 1999 to 2004, under the aegis of the NATO-led KFOR force which has 17,000 troops there.
"It was withdrawn due to our fundamental disagreement with bias favoring one side in Kosovo matters..." the ministry said.
Instead of supporting Kosovo Albanian independence and other actions "destroying world order," there must be a "a decision based on law and compromise between Belgrade and Pristina," the ministry statement said.
<b>It did not say what compromise Russia has in mind. But on the ground in Kosovo, ethnic Serbs in the north are making steady efforts to resist the authority of the new state and its Western backers, with the support of Serbia and Russia.</b>
Russia has not yet openly proposed a return of Russian troops to Kosovo. But is U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin has warned that it will not stand by and allow Kosovo Serbs to be forced to accept the rule of the new republic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->At least Russia is loyal. Hopefully Serbia may yet get their Kosovo back, ideally with no losses on any side.
http://au.news.yahoo.com//080227/15/15z6s.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thursday February 28, 02:18 AM
<b>Kosovo Serbs call for return of Russian troops</b>
PRISTINA (Reuters) - <b>Serbs in Kosovo called on Wednesday for the return of Russian peacekeepers to the country after the ethnic Albanian majority's declaration of independence from Serbia this month.</b>
The call was made by the Serb National Council, a grouping of Kosovo Serb leaders in the Serb stronghold of northern Mitrovica.
<b>"The Serb National Council calls on Russia to return its KFOR contingent, to stabilize the situation in areas where Serbs are in the majority," Council leader Milan Ivanovic said.</b>
Russia withdrew its troops from the NATO-led Kosovo Force, KFOR, in mid-2003, four years after being deployed with 45,000 others after an 11-week NATO air war to save Kosovo Albanians from ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces fighting guerrillas.
(Oh, no, the "ethnic cleansing" refrain again. Repeat a lie a million times and it turns into the 'truth' for western media. After all, must manufacture consent for creation of independent Kosovo. And nothing like shocking claims of 'ethnic cleansing' to sway the gullible public.
What, they haven't mentioned 'mass graves'. It's a miracle. Or maybe it's just that they don't want to be caught with too many obvious lies in one article...)
The international force is now down to 16,000 soldiers.
<b>Kosovo's 120,000 remaining Serbs, almost half of whom live in a thin slice of land in the north adjacent to Serbia, have rejected the February 17 secession, which was backed by the West but condemned by Serbia and Russia.</b>
(US will decide what will happen to <i>other</i> countries, how dare Serbia - or even historical ally, nearby Russia - say anything at all about Kosovo; it so obviously doesn't even concern them.
arcasmMaybe Kosovo's Albanians want to move to the US now, since the US has been so generous with others' land it will be even more generous with its own. No?)
In a statement on Sunday, the Russian foreign ministry demanded a compromise solution on Kosovo -- something the West has assessed as impossible after almost two years of inconclusive negotiations.
The ministry recalled that Russia had previously had a peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo -- possibly pointing to plans to propose a return of Russian troops to the territory, in ethnic Serb areas that resist Albanian rule.
In a new sign of the deepening ethnic divide, dozens of Serb officers in the Kosovo police service failed to report for duty on Wednesday in the eastern Gnjilane region.
"The majority of Kosovo Serb police officers in the Gnjilane region have not shown up for work this morning," said regional police spokesman Ismet Hashani. He did not give a reason.
Senior police sources have told Reuters that Serb officers in the Kosovo police no longer receive orders from Pristina headquarters, but coordinate activities with the U.N. police and mayors in Serb areas.
A minister in Belgrade said the developments were all part of Serbia's plan to isolate Kosovo and strengthen Belgrade's grip on Serb areas, which some analysts fear could try to split from the new republic.
"We are planning to have our local police in Serb towns in Kosovo," Infrastructure Minister Velimir Ilic said on Belgrade's independent Radio B92. "It is part of the action plan."
(Additional reporting by Fatos Bytyci; writing by Matt Robinson; editing by Andrew Roche)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->NATO really has the Fatal Touch. Wherever they go they create division and permanent problems. Why can't they keep their divisive tactics to themselves.
Hopefully, with any luck, the islamoterrorist Albanian KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army or whatever) may move their target-practise onto NATO rather than Serbians.
Western christianity really hates Orthodox christianity - the way they didn't let the Greeks retrieve their Turkish-occupied land (now Turkey) after the war; the way they have been ruthlessly meddling in Orthodox countries.
Hopefully Serbia will learn from India and TSP split. If they ever decide that the split is final, they have to make a 100% population transfer. Never ever let a single other religion (catholicism, protestantism, islamism) infest what land remains to Serbians again. Never let a (foreign) tyrant of other religion - specifically catholicism, protestantism, islam - take power. Never let US/other western missionaries, such as the Baptists, in. Never let communists write their histories; in fact, send communists into islamic Albania instead - make it part of the population transfer. Never let western countries own/infiltrate media houses in Serbian lands. The rest of their future will take care of itself then: no more strife or conflict, and that will mean development.