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...just been created, and what kind of life its citizens will have. Kosovo holds three European records: it has the highest unemployment, the worst infant-mortality rate and the lowest living standards on the Continent. The latest Human Rights Watch report chronicles widespread oppression and discrimination of non-Albanian ethnic minorities - Serbs, Turks and Roma - along with organized crime, rampant corruption and a dysfunctional justice system...
...Kosovo is no joke because instability in the Balkans tends to spread. It triggered World War I, not to mention a few smaller conflicts in the 1990s. The Kosovo war was a big deal in 1999, when President Bill Clinton instigated a NATO bombing campaign to defend Kosovo's Albanian Muslims and defuse a refugee crisis. Tom DeLay, then the House majority whip, accused Clinton of embroiling the U.S. in a "quagmire," of "involving the U.S. military in a civil war in a sovereign nation." But that wouldn't happen to America for another four years. No, the Kosovo intervention...
...situation is simple for one so complicated. Kosovo, the wayward Serbian province that is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, will settle for nothing short of independence. Serbia refuses to entertain any possibility of that happening. Unsurprisingly, then, the two failed to reach any kind of understanding by Dec. 10, the deadline set by the United Nations for negotiations on Kosovo’s eventual status. With that deadline passed, Kosovo is widely expected to secede and become the world’s youngest country. But it is ignoring the consequences of a sudden divorce. As it stands, an independent Kosovo could...
During the 1999 war, NATO compelled Serbian security forces to pull out of Kosovo, which was then placed under United Nations rule. Kosovo's provisional government, dominated by the province's mostly ethnic Albanian population, is expected to proclaim independence within the next few weeks. Most European Union members and the United States have announced that they will back Kosovo as an independent state, despite fierce opposition by Serbia and Russia...
...which has been under U.N. administration since clashes between Serbian forces and secessionist rebels sparked an international crisis in 1999--took another step toward independence this month when the U.N. failed to negotiate a settlement between the two sides before a Dec. 10 deadline. Differences between Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority and Belgrade, which opposes full independence for the province, proved too great to bridge. So too did the gulf between the West and Serbia's traditional ally Russia over the region's future...