>New York TIMES /World Briefing | Europe >Kosovo: Demonstrators Protest U.N. Plan >By DAN BILEFSKY >Published: December 3, 2008
>Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's >capital, on Tuesday to protest the planned deployment of a European Union >judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new >country. The 2,000-strong mission would be deployed under a plan agreed to >last week by the United Nations Security Council and accepted by Kosovo's >prime minister, Hashim Thaci. Critics say the mission violates Kosovo's >sovereignty and fear that separate chains of command planned for Serbian and >Albanian police forces would entrench the country's partition along ethnic >lines. < If this split is a real threat, this fits with a trend that was highlighted a decade or so ago: at the same time capital is becoming more globalized, the nation-states are becoming more fragmented. (Maybe this trend has stopped, however.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
