which primarily permited, and then covered up the process of systematic discrimina-
hostile Albanian environment for more than a decade by KFOR-troops, are the only Eurostrong international military forces, oten by tanks, cannons or armoured vehicles, and
The facts and analysis, mostly of Western and Balkan origin, presented in this book,
interest for the extremely difficult position of Kosovo Serbs since June 1999. Obviously,
the additional efforts to prevent the ongoing denial of basic human and community rights,
Serb community ― even ater the unilateral proclamations of independence by the
Albanian-dominated Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Priština in February 2008 ― in this troublesome province of Serbia.
Dušan T. Bataković
history of Kosovo (Kosovo-Metohija) and its contemporary aspects. Former ambassador of FR Yugoslavia and Serbia to Greece, Canada and France, he was also the advisor
for Kosovo to the president of Serbia, member of the Belgrade negotiation-team in the
UN-sponsored status talks on Kosovo (2006-2007) and the head of the Serbian delegation at the International Court of Justice at the Hague in the case regarding the legality
of the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo. Currently Director of the Institute for
Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences at Arts in Belgrade, he has
The Kosovo
Chronicles
Kosovo. La spirale de la haine
Kosovo and Metohija. Living
n the Enclave (ed., 2007); Kosovo. Un conflit sans fin?
Serbia’s Kosovo Drama.
A Historical Perspective
ISBN 2-911527-12-7
Cover photo:
Church of St. Andrew in Podujevo, March 2004.
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logical sites etc., which were and still are an significant patrimony of European and world
culture, as confirmed by UNESCO, which enlisted four Serbian medieval monasteries
in the UN-administered Kosovo on the list of World Heritage Sites: Dečani Monastery
Visoki Dečani), Patriarchate of Peć (Pećka patrijaršija), Gračanica Monastery (Gračanica
Bogorodica Ljeviška
Dušan T. Bataković
of Kosovo Serbs within Kosovo and Metohija province in the first post-war decade
Dušan T. Bataković
A TURBULENT DECADE
THE SERBS IN POST-1999 KOSOVO
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