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| Serbia: US 'Culprit' in Kosovo Violence |
| 2008-02-24 |
| Serbia's hard-line leaders on Saturday called the U.S. "the main culprit" in the violence that has broken out since Kosovo declared independence. Several thousand Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Russia, Vladimir Putin!" protested peacefully in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, the sixth day of demonstrations against Kosovo's break with Serbia. Russia backs Serbia's fierce resistance to Kosovo's secession. On Thursday night, protesters in the Serbian capital Belgrade set fire to the U.S. embassy, angered by Washington's recognition of Kosovo. The U.S. and the European Union responded by demanding Serbia protect foreign embassies. "The United States is the main culprit ... for all those violent acts," Serbia's Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardzic said in Belgrade. Other Serbian leaders have called for calm after the riots. But an aide to hard-line Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said any future violence also will be blamed on the U.S. "If the United States sticks to its present position that the fake state of Kosovo exists ... all responsibility in the future will be on the United States," Kostunica adviser Branislav Ristivojevic said in a statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 As an aside, the french far-right blogosphere is going apesh*t over that kosovo issue, with USA-bashing at a peak (using all the left-created memes about the USA, Viet Nam, soon-to-be quagmire in the balkans this time, everyone hates the USA for their duplicious imperialism, decadence, conspiracies, capitalism & free market ideology as the source of the dissolving of european Nations,... as is usual for the far-"right"), and putinolatry set on maximum level; when the russians said force was option, it was like a wet dream for many, with putin ready to give a severe lesson to the USA, the powerful russian army ready to roll over the US army, the coming of WWIII when one will be able to desert and go to the other side, etc, etc... Vlad as the savior of Europe, the slavs against the Atlanto-Zionist fueled decadence & multiculturalim/mass immigration/..., isn't that pretty ironical? The fantasies are flying wild. Btw, I've read and heard different opinions from the accepted-as-fact serbian mythology over kosovo, and while I don't see this independence as a good thing from what it may cause, I have now no doubt the serbs have zero legitimity over it, and that the "one people, on land" folks in the french right should accept the fact that kosovars can have their own country. But, the serbs are all the rage, and the idea that kosovo has been populated by muslim immigrants resonates deeply with what's happening in France. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-02-24 00:21 |