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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Kosovo: Threat of enduring nationalism

Threat of enduring nationalism Kosovo’s rival histories
Negotiations on the status of Kosovo will start later this year. If the rights of all who live in or want to return to Kosovo are to be guaranteed, there has to be cooperation between the communities, not supremacy alternating between Serbs and Albanians.
By Jean-Arnault Dérens
A FEW kilometres outside Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, are two sacred sites. A tower commemorates the battle of Kosovo Polje on 28 June 1389, where a Turkish invading force defeated a coalition of the Christian peoples of the Balkans led by the Serbian prince, Lazar Hrebeljanovic.

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