Kosova

Evet, aşağıdaki yazı İHT den (İnternational Herald Tribun). Hiç yorum yapmadan koydum buraya. Belki de yorum yapmadan koymak doğru değildi. Ama unutmayayım, saklayayım diye koydum. Daha bu blog ile ilgili planlarım bitmediği için henüz gözükmüyor ama Amerika her yerde, ama her yerde garip bir 'Bu dünyanın en büyük kabadayısı benim, var mı bana yan bakan?' oyununu oynuyor. Balkanların hali üzüntü verici. Yugoslavya da tam Batı usülü bir bölme oldu. Avrupa lılıar büyük politik birimleri sevmiyorlar. Herşey, herkes küçük, miniminnacık olsun, bir tek onlar büyük olsun istiyorlar...
Kosova da ama tuhaf bir durum var. Her yerde haçlı zihniyetiyle bu dünyayı ilkel müslümanlardan temizleyen sevgili kabadayımız Kosova da şimdi müslüman Arnavutların koruyucusu olarak çıkacak karşımıza... Rusya Sırpların arkasında olacak tabii Birleşmiş Milletlerin 'Security Council' denen beş ülkeden oluşan ( Rusya, Çin, Fransa, A.B.D., İngiltere) kadılarına sorulunca...
Yani sevgili küçükler siz boşu boşuna birşeylerin peşinde koşuyorsunuz... Biliyorum günümüzde herkes kendini aktör olarak görmek istiyor ama roller belli... Yani ne Arnavutlar, ne de Sırplar burda aktör... Onlar figüran. Irak ta sunni ve şii kavgası gibi,
Yugoslavya da da medeni Avrupa nın öncülüğünde birbirini katleden küçük kimlikler onlar... Avrupa ve Amerika işte böyle 'medeniyet' ve 'demokrasi' getiriyorlar... Sizi 'ham' yapmadan evvel, güzelce bölüyorlar. Aslında mantıklı, aynen güzel bir akşam yemeğinde olduğu gibi... Büyük balığı yemeden evvel kesmeniz ve ağzınıza lokma lokma götürmeniz gerekir... Medeniyet dedikleri de bu olsa gerek...

UN plan opens way for Kosovo independence, diplomats say
By Craig S. Smith
Friday, January 26, 2007

PARIS
The United Nations mediator Martti Ahtisaari presented his proposals for the final status of Kosovo on Friday, setting the tiny war-torn territory on its way toward independence — although not for some time.

The recommendations call for the former Yugoslav province to be given autonomy from Serbia. But they fall short of the immediate independence so hoped for by the territory's majority population of ethnic Albanians, according to Western diplomats involved in the process.

The proposals would ultimately lead to full independence, with interntional supervision, much like Bosnia, diplomats said.

The plan foresees a strong international presence for the time being, and "there are also a lot of measures to guarantee and promote the rights of the minority communities," Rémi Dourlot, Ahtisaari's spokesman, said in Vienna where the plan was presented. He was referring to the Serbs living in Kosovo.

NATO troops, which have kept peace in the country since fighting ended in 1999, will stay put for some while. And while the United Nations mission governing the territory will pack up and leave, it will be replaced by a similar international organization that will have enough teeth to intervene in the case of the Kosovo government breaching its obligations under UN agreements, diplomats said.

But if it is approved by the United Nations Security Council, the plan would allow Kosovo to declare independence. It could expect swift recognition from its U.S. and European supporters, even if Serbia rejected such a move.

That step, diplomats caution, is probably months away.

"I foresee this process taking some time and we might be in a wholly different situation," said one senior Western diplomat in Vienna who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to comment on the proposal until it is made public. "No one can predict the Security Council dynamic."

Ahtisaari handed his recommendations to representatives of the so-called Contact Group — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia — during a meeting at a secret location in the Austrian capital. It will be presented to the Serbian government in Belgrade and the Kosovo government in Pristina on Feb. 2. Even then, only their broad outlines are to be made public.

The recommendations are only one step in a gradual process. After the unveiling next week, Serbia and Kosovo will have the opportunity to ask questions and suggest changes to the text.

The plan will then be presented to the Security Council for approval — though Ahtisaari has not said when he hopes to do so.

Already, Russia, which supports Serbia's efforts to keep Kosovo as a province, is pushing for the Security Council vote to be delayed until Belgrade has formed a government after recent elections, diplomats in Vienna say.

The nationalist Radical Party came in first with 28 percent of the vote earlier this month in Serbia, but the democratic parties that came in second and third have the best chance to form a coalition, analysts say. But difficult and potentially long negotiations are ahead.

But all diplomats interviewed said they doubted that Serbia could prevail upon Russia to veto a resolution once the Security Council is presented with one.

Within hours of the Vienna meeting, details of the document were leaking out. According to one diplomat familiar with the proposal, it would give Kosovo the right to enter into some international agreements and join world organizations as a sovereign state.

NATO would train a civil defense force that could eventually become a Kosovo Army, though it is not clear what would become of the controversial Kosovo Protection Corps, formed from former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

But in other ways, Kosovo would remain subject to the international community. The European Union is already setting up a police force of more than 1,000 officers to monitor the territory's police, judges, prosecutors and even prison guards.

The most sensitive part of the plan concerns the estimated 114,000 Serbs in Kosovo, most of whom adamantly oppose independence from Serbia.

To reassure the minority that their rights will not be overrun, some Serbian areas would be given autonomy, and help would be given to build Serb hospitals and schools. Ahtisaari's plan provides for the creation of several municipalities where the concentration of Serbs is high.

The Albanians of Kosovo had mostly practiced nonviolent resistance to the Serbian security forces who took over the province in the early 1990s. But the Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, described the Kosovo Albanians as being bent on "genocide" against the Serbs, and a war began.

Attacks by the Kosovo Liberation Army multiplied during 1998. Milosevic would not withdraw from Kosovo. And so, in March 1999, NATO, for the first time, went to war, bombing Serbia until Milosevic eventually agreed, in June that year, to pull back his forces and allow NATO peacekeepers to enter the province, which became a United Nations protectorate.

The bombings of Serbia destroyed government buildings, factories and much of the country's infrastructure.

This defeat, the economic ruin and isolation that Milosevic had brought upon Serbia stirred up opposition at home, culminating in his election defeat in 2000, and then to his dispatch to The Hague in 2001 to face war crimes charges for the Balkan wars in which more than 200,000 people died. Milosevic died in prison while on trial.