http://torontosun.com/News/World/2008/02/24/4872248-sun.html
TORONTO SUN (CANADA) February 24, 2008 Serbians rail at U.S. over Kosovo Breakaway illegal, Canada told By KEVIN CONNOR, SUN MEDIA Canada must not recognize the partition of Kosovo from Serbia, a demonstration of hundreds of GTA Serbs heard last night outside the U.S. consulate. Their anger over countries like the U.S. recognizing Kosovo as an independent state was expressed with chants of "Kosovo is Serbia" and signs saying "Kosovo is part of Serbia -- not Bush property." "What should be the utmost concern to Canadians is that the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo's Albanians is illegal under law," Suzana Vukosavljevic of Hamilton told the crowd, estimated at 2,000, on University Ave. "After World War II, the United Nations was created specifically to ensure that a small number of powerful countries (like the U.S. and Britain, which has also recognized Kosovo) would not be shaping the world according to their own strategic and political interests." Serbs will never give up their fight to regain their country's territorial integrity, Bojan Ratkovic, a political science student at Brock University, said. "The separatists are criminals. Kosovo is Serbia, just like Quebec is Canada. We want Kosovo back in Serbia," Ratkovic said. Kosovo is spiritual land to Serbians, Bora Celik said. "Albanians in Kosovo have a country. They can go to Albania," Celik said. In 1999, thousands of Serbs protested outside the U.S. consulate, throwing eggs and breaking windows, angered by a NATO attack on their homeland. Last night, as many as 50 police officers and mounted police were on hand at the rally, which didn't get violent. "We are on stand by. "It can only take a couple of hotheads for things to get out of control," Toronto Police Insp. Dave Saunders said. After the speeches police lifted young children over the barricade around the consulate so they could light a candle in honour of the Serb churches that have been destroyed in Kosovo. Petitions were circulated through the crowds demanding that Canada not recognize Kosovo's independence.
