[sorabia] Forget the Rosy Kosovo Scenario - Ltr by Jim Jatras in WSJ

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Forget the Rosy Kosovo Scenario
September 12, 2007


Agim Çeku's ideas about the future status of Serbs and other non-Albanians
in an independent Kosovo can be regarded only as cruel mockery ("Beyond
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118842283302212661.html?mod=Letters>
Independence," Aug. 30). Two-thirds of Serbs and similar proportions of
Roma, Croats, Gorani -- not to mention all of Kosovo's small Jewish
community -- were violently removed from the province. This terror was
inflicted by members of the "Kosovo Liberation Army," whose former commander
was the very same Agim Çeku. As current head of the U.N.-sponsored Albanian
administration in Kosovo, Mr. Çeku also holds primary responsibility for the
fact that virtually none of those forced to flee have been able to return in
safety. The prospect of their doing so under a "continued but lighter
presence of NATO-led peacekeepers and EU-led police" is nonexistent.

Rather than facilitating further instability, crime and human-rights
violations in what inevitably would be a failed state, the international
community should reject Mr. Çeku's rosy scenario as the fiction that it is.
Instead, European and other responsible leaders should work for a genuine,
negotiated solution for Kosovo based on a realistic compromise between
Albanians' aspirations for self-rule and Serbia's sovereignty and
territorial integrity.

James George Jatras
Director
American Council for Kosovo
Washington

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118954605681524213.html



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