The Kosovo Situation

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Hatred and stupidity always come together, and usually are swords with two blades.

The memory of two young boys which have been killed has forever been desecrated by two separate act of violence by Serbs in Kosovo which are being justified by Serbian media as "acts of preventive self-defense which have been committed out of grief and mourning for the two killed Gorazdevac boys".

If anything the people of Kosovo should use the two tragic deaths to realize that there are some among them which work against peace and stability, that their calling card is terror and violence, and their creed intelligence-deprived hatred for people. They also should have realized that those people don't care for anyone else but their selves and not for Kosovo. The deaths should have been used as a cause to sit down and talk about the things that drive them apart, and the things which could bring them closer together, and to agree that violence will get them nowhere but 6 feet under. Instead it has been used as a justification for more violence.

In one incident the Serbs living in Gracanica beat up 5 Albanians, and a similar incident heaped in some village in Kosovo. The result - another attack in the Bistrica River, on the Gorazdevac people -thankfully this time without any casualties.

The only voice of reason comes from Serbia's Prime Minister, Mr. Zivkovic who stated that " the return of Serbian troops to Kosovo would be an act of unnecessary muscle-flexing without any effect, because there are so many illegal weapons in Kosovo, that the Serbian police and military in Kosovo, in the numbers allowed by resolution 1221, would be sitting ducks, just waiting to be shoot, unnecessarily adding to the already too big death count". On the other hand politicians in Serbia are calling this statement an act of cowardly retreat and giving up on Kosovo Serbs, and are demanding Serbian military and police presence in Serb inhabited parts of Kosovo.

The full extent of the new wave of violence is yet to be seen, but from where I'm standing it looks like the worst is yet to come. We can only pray that it doesn't, and that reason prevails.