What's going on in Kosovo????;

What's going on in Kosovo?????;
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Kosovo is perhaps the most volatile place on the planet today.
and yet,
Very few Greeks know this
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A fire is smoldering in our neighborhood that could break out at any moment, and most Greeks have no idea
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Kosovo has been a sacred place for Serbs since time immemorial.
It was there that their ancestors fought the Ottomans and were massacred.
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Monasteries, churches, and convents were founded there, and Lazar, the ruler of Serbia—who was slaughtered by the Ottomans in the late 14th century—was canonized.
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Later, the clashes with the Ottomans continued
and
when the sultan launched a major campaign,
The Serbs were retreating and pulling back further north to escape
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so,
There were times when the Kosovo region was completely depopulated
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We're talking about a fertile region with a river and rich soil and subsoil
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It was mainly Albanian farmers who benefited from this exodus,
who came down from their mountainous regions and settled in these lands
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Later, the Serbs returned…
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We are already in the era of the Ottoman Empire, when
Serbs and Albanians lived together in Kosovo without any major problems
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Let's not forget that nation-states do not yet exist.
These are concepts and inspirations from later years, when the empires will collapse
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Nation-states first emerged in the Balkans during the Balkan Wars
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So when the Balkan Wars broke out, local kingdoms were established
(Serbs, Croats, Slovenes)
who later united to form a single kingdom, that of Yugoslavia
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So Kosovo was then incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbia,
which later became part of the unified Yugoslavia
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At that time, Kosovo was inhabited roughly equally by Albanians and Serbs,
However, with the Serbs' low birth rate and the Albanians' high birth rate, the landscape was gradually changing
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In 1941, Mussolini’s fascist Italy invaded the region and announced the creation of «Greater Albania» and its union with Kosovo
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At that time, the Albanians of Kosovo welcomed the Italian Blackshirts and the Germans as liberators
and
they set up their own Albanian government,
made Albanian the official language,
were celebrating Albanian national holidays with Albanian flags,
while
and education in schools became Albanian
(language, books, teachers, etc.)
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But the Germans couldn't possibly stay there forever.
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So, after liberation, Tito took over,
who went on to establish the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Kosovo became a province of Serbia.
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Shortly thereafter, for internal reasons, Tito granted autonomy to Kosovo
and made it an autonomous region with equal participation in the federal governance of the state
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Over the years, however, the population growth among Albanians and the decline in the Serbian population have given rise to nationalism
and
After Tito's death, things got out of hand
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Local uprisings broke out among Albanians demanding the secession of their region from Serbia
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In fact, on countless occasions, the Albanians in Kosovo have committed acts of violence
with
desecrations of sacred sites, acts of violence, and threats against Serbs, including rapes
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It's not like the Serbs were any better
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That's more or less how we ended up with rampant nationalism on both sides.
in the late 1980s,
Slobodan Milošević overthrows the local leadership in Kosovo and replaces them with his own people
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In late 1991, Yugoslavia broke up, and that is when the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) began its activities in Kosovo.
which was an Albanian guerrilla movement, backed by………..
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In the mid-1990s, the UČK carried out dozens of massacres of Serbs in Kosovo, which further fueled Serbian nationalism
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In 1998, Milošević launched a major offensive against the UCK, and it turned into a bloodbath… combatants and civilians from both sides were killed indiscriminately.
We're talking about a lot of blood and unimaginable horror…..
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The West was horrified by the massacres of Serbs and launched the infamous NATO bombings in Serbia in 1999.
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Sure
and the Utsekades were slaughtering
and the Albanians had been slaughtering people for years
and the Croats massacred Serbs the previous year in Krajina
and the Turks massacred Cypriots
and
and
and
But we didn't have any NATO bombings or anything like that anywhere
Anyway, let's move on
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and after many other things, with the backing of the Americans and the support of the Europeans,
On February 17, 2008, the Kosovo Assembly unilaterally declared the region's independence from Serbia
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To date, approximately 100 countries have recognized Kosovo's independence.
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Greece is NOT among them,
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We are talking about an artificial state that is characterized as
the
«The El Dorado of the Balkans»
It is the hub of all illegal activity.
Corruption,
smuggling,
drug trafficking,
crime,
weapons,
women,
It even sounds like there's organ trafficking going on
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the government of Kosovo,
in 2013,
in Brussels,
He promised that for the Serbs living in Kosovo,
will implement the «Association of Serbian Municipalities» (ZSO).
where
It will be a self-governing association of municipalities with a Serbian majority in Kosovo.
However, to this day, it refuses to implement
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All he did was ban Serbian currency,
Serbian license plates,
the Serbian signs
etc.
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indeed,
In 2024, police raids were carried out on the orders of the Ministry of the Interior in Pristina,
at the offices of four Serbian banks that people used to conduct their transactions
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You see, Kosovo uses the euro as its currency, while Serbia uses the Serbian dinar
and Serbia provides pensions, salaries, etc., to Serbs in Kosovo
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now
Ever since Kyriakos Mitsotakis became prime minister, Greece has been on the verge of recognition
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yesterday,
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić accused Dora Bakoyannis,
which is
European Parliament rapporteur on Kosovo's accession to the Council of Europe,
that he changed his stance,
after a phone call(!!!)
and
waived the condition,
The government of Kosovo must FIRST implement the Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO).
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He said:
«I know very well who gave the order for you to abandon your principles and behave this way. Shame on you.»
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These are very serious issues that the Greeks
they have no idea
under normal conditions
Since yesterday, ONLY THIS TOPIC has been dominating the news, talk shows, and TV segments,
but not today
Today we live in the utter darkness of a television dictatorship that feeds the people nothing but propaganda and nonsense
e.g.
Yesterday, all the TV channels were showing Karamanlis's son,
Alexander,
Stratos Dionisiou singing…………..

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias