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LETTER TO MY FATHER

Koha Ditore

1. I will be on "Mother Theresa" street after the declaration of Kosovo's independence. I will remember some moments. First I will remember you, Flaka, and me, on the same street, which at that time was called 'Marsal Tito". Celebrating New Years in the sixties. We were kids, and the VJ soldiers shot fireworks from the "Ramiz Sadiku" building and they fell in front of us. Second memory. I returned from elementary school with my friends, and in the street opposite the former Hotel "Bozur", I saw a red-white 'Kosovatrans' bus. People who led demonstrations went...

SERB POLITICIANS ON INDENPENDENCE
OF KOSOVO:

Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of Serbia: Decision of the government of Serbia to in advance and for ever annul proclamation of the false state in the territory of Serbia is the basis of the post-17th February state and national program of Serbia relating to the province of Kosovo and Metohija. With our amply manifested, unified state and national policy we must provide for a normal life of all citizens in the province of Kosovo and Metohija who respect the state of Serbia, Therefore all of them must stay in their houses, in their Kosovo and Metohija, in...

UNCHANGED MATRIX

More and more are the media transmitters of wishful thinking, high hopes and assignments, and less and less mediators between the reality and the public. When it comes to Kosovo, the stereotypes about nations and ethnic communities (Albanians, Slovenians, Muslims, etc.) that dominated the media in early 1990s were promptly revived. This indicates that the media space - eight years after Milosevic's ouster - has not changed the value matrix on which the Greater Serbia policy rests. Deriving from the national frustration over a defeated policy, this value matrix now turns into cynicism...

BELGRADE RIOTS FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Background, dimensions, implications

23. February 2008.

On the margins of a huge demonstration masterminded by Prime Minister V. Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and orchestrated together with [ICTY indictee] V. Šešelj's Serbian Radical Party (SRS) and President B. Tadic as a grand manifestation of popular outrage at the Western countries' support for Kosovo's independence, unprecedented violence spread in downtown Belgrade on Feb. 21 and resulted in loss of one life , 212 injured , US and Croatian...

RUSSIAN STATE TV ON 21st FEBRUARY 2008 DEVELOPMENTS IN BELGRADE:

22. February 2008.

"Today citizens of Belgrade probably remembered other rallies. They recalled how an enraged crowd, spearheaded by the very same football fans, chief protagonists of today's rally, ousted old Milosevic.
They remembered how the country unhinged by liberal promises staged a tearful good-bye to the Western stooge, Zoran Djindjic - the man who dismantled the legendary Serb army and special services, the man who handed over to the Hague...

REVIVAL OF HATE SPEECH

Frustration due to proclamation of independence of Kosovo engendered a strong revival of hate speech in public discourse, notably in the print media. Channeled anger towards international community actors, those considered by Serbia to be the most responsible for loss of Kosovo, heralded the return of the old stereotypes about internal and external foes to the media scene. However, the anger is focused on the US, while the EU is called the "US maid." President of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, at the 18th February...

RUSSIA AS PERCEIVED BY THE SERB ELITE

30 January 2008, HCHRS

Mihajlo Markovic, academician: Election of Tomislav Nikolic could end the existing vassal-like and servile relations towards the leading powers of the world globalization which had broken up our country, introduced sanctions against us, bombarded us, continue to blackmail us, and strive to take Kosovo from us and thus continue to carve us up. (...) I think that the choice of Nikolic would enable us to ensure the mutually good co-operation with the Western Europe, plus necessary forms of co-operation with...