Violence erupts on Kosovo-Serbia border

[AvarAllahNoor]

Hi, wasn't talking about Canada though WTP had a good point.

I was responding to Keltoi's point about independence America being founded on independence. I was pointing out that in the 1860's the Southern US states announced independence which was opposed by the north.

It led to the Civil War.

OK?

I responded to a post in which you only highlighted Russia & China. (Negatives)

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement

I fail to detect the bit about French hating the English speaking Candians.:hmm:

 

[Whatsthepoint]

I fail to detect the bit about French hating the English speaking Candians.:hmm:

My post was not meant to be serious. And anyway, I did not say the French hate the English, I said they hate the union with the English.them.

 

[Keltoi]

Didn't the South at one time try to declare independence?

The russians are afraid (and they should be) that recognition would embolden sepratists in their own county. The chinese too with their oppression in Tibet and threats against Taiwan.

As I said, almost always.

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

Serb official blames U.S. for violence

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo - Several thousand Serbs chanting "Russia, Vladimir Putin!" and "Kosovo is Serbia!" protested peacefully Saturday in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica and a Serb enclave in the south in a sixth day of demonstrations against Kosovo's independence.

In a sign that Serbia is fast drifting away from the West and toward Russia, which is backing its fierce resistance of Kosovo's secession, hard-line Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica condemned anew the U.S. and other nations that have recognized Kosovo as an independent state.

"If the United States stick 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.

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

Serbian settlers plan partition of Kosovo

Kosovo, the world's newest state, is facing a partition of its territory only a week after it unilaterally declared independence from Serbia.


Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica demonstrate against Kosovo's independence
The mostly Serb-populated northern region around the divided town of Mitrovica, next to the Serbian border, has begun preparing a de facto secession from the newborn country that Serb officials consider "illegal".

On Friday, the bridge on the Ibar River that divides the Albanian and the Serb parts of Mitrovica was closed to traffic, guarded by UN police and Nato on one side, and Serb strongmen on the other.

At the same time, KFOR, the Nato-led peacekeeping force, sealed the border to Serbia, after angry mobs torched border crossings.

"This is a beginning of a secession of the northern part of Kosovo. I fear it will lead to attacks on the remaining Albanians living in northern Mitrovica to force them to flee across the river.