Word: kosovo
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...Thursday's demonstration follows a week of orchestrated outrage that has singled out those countries that have recognized Kosovo's declaration of independence . In addition to stone - throwing incidents at several embassies in Belgrade, no fewer than ten McDonald's outlets were vandalized. A local Slovenian supermaket chain was targeted as were Albanian sweet shops and bakeries. (Slovenia currently holds the rotating EU presidency while Albania has consistently supported the secession struggle of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.) Serbian state television pulled American movies and sitcoms off the air and replaced them with Russian and Spanish dramas. (Spain and Russia...
...Serb-dominated north of Kosovo, meanwhile, Kosovo Serbs descended on two border posts, torching one and blowing up the other, before NATO troops from the territory's 16,000-strong peacekeeping force arrived to take control of the posts. There were no casualties...
...Many Serbs see Kosovo as their ancestral homeland . They believe they are being unfairly punished for the sins of one man, Slobodan Milosevic, the former strongman who died in 2006 while facing war crimes charges in the Hague. And they blame the U.S. in particular for backing Kosovo Albanians drive to independence. U.S. warplanes bombed Belgrade in 1999 at the height of the campaign to stop Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" campaign in Kosovo...
...Thursday's rally, Prime Minister Kostunica asked the crowd: "Is there anyone here who is not from Kosovo? Is there anyone here who's ready to give Kosovo away?" The crowd cheered. No one volunteered. "They want us to give away our Serbian identity, our origins, our Kosovo, our ancestors, and our history. They say we'd be better off without these things, as a nation without memory and history. They say we will live better if we just forget we're Serbs and agree to be humiliated...
...Without Kosovo, there is no Serbia," Tomislav Nikolic, a leader of the Serbian Radical Party said later. "Today we're all the same. Today...