KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP)--Kosovo Serbs on Tuesday demanded autonomy for their dwindling community, and called for a "decentralization" of the troubled province that would effectively keep them apart from Kosovo's dominant ethnic Albanians.
Anticipating that upcoming international talks on Kosovo's future may meet the ethnic Albanian demands for Kosovo's independence from Serbia, the Association of Serb Communities in Kosovo issued a proclamation saying that "whatever the ( ethnic) Albanians are given in relation to Belgrade, (Kosovo) Serbs must get the same from Pristina."
Pristina is the capital of Kosovo, the southern province that has been a U.N. and NATO protectorate since the 1998-1999 war between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
NATO bombing in 1999 forced Serbia to relinquish control over its southern province, the final status of which is to be decided this year under the auspices of the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France, Germany and Italy.
About 200,000 Serbs fled Kosovo in 1999, and the remaining 100,000 mostly live in scattered enclaves, under occasional attacks by ethnic Albanian militants.
The leader of the Association of Serb Communities in Kosovo, Marko Jaksic, said that "if (ethnic) Albanians do not wish that Belgrade rules over them, there is no reason for Pristina to rule over Serbs" in Kosovo.
He described the decentralization as allowing self-rule to the Serb enclaves in Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians make up about 90% of the population.
"Decentralization is the key factor for our survival and the possible return of Serb refugees" to their Kosovo homes, he said.
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Mr Ivan "what goes around comes around" you havent experienced yet. We lost 10 thousand you lost from bombs and Kla maybe 3-4 thousand. Consider 250 thousand killed from Nish region after the turks left plus about same number after WWII,plus around a million in WWI, we are nowhere near being even. Maybe in the future, who knows. But one thing is for certain only a threat of mutual anihilation will bring peace between albanians and serbs. So we should get nuclear arms and then you will see a 1000 year peace. Otherwise you and the albanians who claim there can be peace between us normally, are fooling themselves. Furthermore, I dont understand why so many of us albanaians are against war. War brought down Hitler, Milosevic, Turkish empire. As Machiavelli said who wants peace prepares for war. Serbs are preparing for war they have build bases all around Kosova we on the other hand are in the mercy of others. Learn from your mistakes, we tried the peace thing with the serbs for a century or more and all we got is more massacres.
Mr Ivan or you Mr Civjus I have no interest in convincing you of anything. My mother walked from Mitrovica all the way to the border with Albania escorted all the way by serb army using them as shields from Nato planes. If everyone of the people massacred in Kosova forgives your rapist kind, I never will. I am ashamed that there are albanians like some in this website who would even consider having negotiations with the serbs.
To all albanians here:
Read what the serbs posted here when I wrote about my 60 year old mother walking to Albania and you will understand the logic they employ in regards to Kosova's future and about albanians in general. Their logic is on of perverted sofist bs that everything is relative and we albanians are as guilty for the massacres they committed against us. That reminds me of an abusive psychopath who blames its vicitms for his wrath. And to answer the question of Mr Ivan, if serb military did engane in a kind of mass killing like that could you tell me what would happen to Serbia? The whole world knew your kind from Srebrenica they knew that could happen in Kosova as well and they took measures against that. And if those massacres had happened ,as you probably wish ,the Nato would have gone in with ground troops and a whole a lot of your gypsy kind would be eating dirt today. And Kosova would have had no serbs today, granted more victims, and there would be no sign of a serb ever living in Kosova.
to anonymous,
Here you are accusing Serbs of being killers, gypsies, etc. Did you know that your UCK have killed my entire family, they dragged my fathers dead body through the village braging with his cutten head. My little brother was beaten to death by your UCK heroes. My mother was raiped even before the NATO campaing by your UCK heroes. What do you think, is it possible for me to forgive what you did to my family. They are gone, but your mother lives, and I'm sorry for what happened to her, so how much right do you have to accuse the Serbs for being a genitically murdering nation?
Ivan and Cvijus never characterized you as an inderior nation, and you accuse them for being racists, but you characterise the entire Serbian nation of being racists. Who is now the racist?
You're all blinded by all the blood spilled and you don't want to change it.
Why don't you answer to Cvijus where were you when your mother walked to Albania?
I dont care what UCK did to you. And I was in western europe just like thousands of albanians running away from a hell you created for us. Payback is a bitch!
You don't care that your UCK was killing innocent people?
And you ran away to western Europe like a pussy? A big hero you are.
You don't deserve any respect. You're no better than these UCK killers or the Serbian policemen.
2:56 (Cvijus, right?),
Bring on names, facts, all you have... Otherwise stop bullshiting with made-up stories.
This is not a dissing contest and you are insulting the momories of our loved ones.
"Cvijus, right?"
Why do you think I'm Cvijus?
It was in Decani. I seeked refuge in the monastery.
I just see that you are insulting the memories of our loved ones. How dare you? The only one imagining stories is you and you insult all the lost lives in this pointless war. You're not worth of any repsect and human dissency.
Anon. Serb (Cvijus?),
I said bring on facts. You brought the word "Decane." Tell us the names of your father, brother, the place of attack, who attacked them, links to media reporting on the event (RTS and Tanjug must have love it), etc. I'm sorry but with "Decane" we have no way to verify your claims.
I'm suspecting that you are making them up. This is a common tactic of Serbs to equal their crimes with those of their victimes, which often were retributions (never to the same degree) for Serb massacres in the first place.
The goal was a despicable political act to prove everybody guilty (notice the evolution: Serbs no longer claim to be the victims of their neighbhors, but merely victims like everyone else in the crazy Balkans) and thus negotiate on an equal footing.
The most appalling example of this behaviour is the Srebrenica justification, namely that a Bosniak commander terrorized Serb villagers and thus Serbs had to act... By exectuing 8000 civilians. Now thats pathetism at an all new level.
Ivan,
As Heku said, you have to back up your independence claim on political, historical, demographic, and legal grounds. I'll give you Leposavic for free, but in other places you're pretty much a minority unless you want to go neighbhorhood by neighbhorhood, in which case you'r delaying but definitely stamping the death of self-segregated Serb communities in Kosova through non-integration. I'm listening...
To all,
Can you please drop from use the word Nazi? Do you think that words Albanian and Serb don't evoke enough hate?
Mr Serbs, all this has been my point exactly.You showed your colors.You even blame alabanians for Milosevic. We tortured serbs thats why he came to power? Isnt that a bit imbecilic.However, the main point I was trying to make is that war will come no matter if you like it or not or we like it or not. North Mitrovica has made sure of that. As for me I went to western europe in 1990 because as i said serbs had made it hell for albanians in Kosova. Whether I am a hero or not is my issue not yours.
Mr Ivan, do you even understand what the article says? You cant be that stupid and claim to be human my good man.
Mr Ivan, I agree with you someday some albanian will walk over the graves of those killed by your kind, will turn his back on the suffering of those who's family have been massacred and their bodies burned in serbian factories, will ignore thousands of mothers, daughters, sisters who got raped and will extend the hand of peace to serbia. I hope me and my children and grandchildren never witeness that. And that albanian who sincerely does that is a bigger enemy to me than serbs ever were.
Mr Ivan, I dont hate you or your kind. To me there is only equanimity when even talking about your kind. Whether you vanish tommorrow, are all killed by an atomic bomb or napalm bombs or just massacred by croats (cause albanians cant even think of the shit you slavs do to humans) its just as good to me. As far as I am concerned albanians should ,as long as there is humanity, be your enemies.
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