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According to Radoslav Petkovic, director of the Institute for Textbooks, the state agency that has a publishing monopoly over all books used in Serbia's schools, the omission was an attempt to strip the country's recent history of any ideology. "All that historians currently have are journalistic accounts and the memoirs of certain participants," says Petkovic. "But these are not primary sources. Before having access to the relevant documents and archives, they would not be able to produce an unbiased view of history." Dijana Plut of the Institute of Psychology, a member of the team that analyzes textbook content...
When the Balkan wars started in 1991, Mitrovica, or Kosovska Mitrovica as it is known in Serbia, was just another ethnically mixed city in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. But, as the Serb strongman stepped up his campaign against ethnic Albanians and the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, old neighborly ties began to fray. One night the body of Lindita's father was found in a back street on another side of town. A restaurant owner, he had been accused of giving food to the rebels. The Rexhepi family believe he was murdered by Serbs...
...came the Kosovo war. When Serb forces withdrew in late June 1999 under NATO bombardment and peacekeeping forces arrived to establish a U.N. administration, Serbs who had been expelled from other parts of Kosovo made a last stand in the city. Mitrovica, which lies only two dozen kilometers from Serbia, is highly prized because of its massive Trepca coal mine. Clashes between Albanians and Serbs have left dozens killed and many more wounded. Former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke once called Mitrovica "the most dangerous place in Europe." In many ways, it still...
...main hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marijan Ilincic, a 51-year-old bridge watcher and former judo instructor, denies this. He called his group a "civic organization" formed after the war when Yugoslav troops withdrew. "We decided we could either run to Serbia or stay and defend ourselves," he says. "We decided to stay. We know the Albanians. They are prone to terrorism. We have to protect ourselves." Down the corridor, in an office that boasts one of the biggest security details in the city, hospital director Milan Ivanovic, a lung specialist who is also one of the city's most...
...just under three years, the U.N. administration in Kosovo has tried to establish its authority in the north of Mitrovica - and failed. A new attempt is now under way, spearheaded by Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's Vice Premier and the minister responsible for Kosovo. The province is still legally part of Serbia and Belgrade continues to pay the salaries of northern Mitrovica's civil servants, though elsewhere in Kosovo the U.N. is in charge. Covic hopes to persuade Ivanovic and others to play along with the U.N. in exchange for assurances about Serbs' long-term security. "They have to face reality...