Sunday, May 21, 2006

Petersen's grass

In this map from the "Coordination Centre of Serbia & Montenegro and Republic of Serbia" (redundant, isn't it?) are shown the priorities of Serbia when the return of Serbs is concerned. In red are areas labeled "concluded (utverdeni) return priority." In indigo are "areas of majority non-albanian communities." And in yellow are "majority Serb areas." The goal is clearly to link the yellow areas together into one. Vetevendosje! says that the aim is not to return Serbs to their homes, but rather build up new communities so that this kind of linkage can be implemented. It is in the interest of Serbia to postpone the return as much as possible in order to justify something like this during the negotiations.

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This is old too but I couldn't find pictures of the event until now. You might remember the fear that 800 hectares of land around the Decani Monastery were being granted extraterritoriality by UNMIK. People were not allowed to work the lands or the factories around it but cut grass. Vetevendosje! and local citizens from Deçan took some of that dry grass and unloaded it in front of the UNMIK HQ in Pristina. Here is Petersen's grass. More recently they started a false evacuation alarm in the same building and then handed out notices where supposedly UNMIK was asking its staff to evacuate Kosova as soon as possible. This incident ended with about 20 arrests, I think, some of them in charges as well.

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