Posts Tagged as ‘nationalism’

June 28, 2009

Nation building and the others

I’m on my way to Cyprus where I’m giving a paper at the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration conference (IASFM: www.iasfm.org) . My paper is about RAE in Kosovo, but I’m not going to look into the appaling living conditions of the communities, as there are several detailed reports on this, rather I [...]

April 10, 2008

Flag / Bandiera

Questo video sembra un manuale di storia per le scuole kosovare, tre minuti di musica racchiudono tutte le parole e le immagini chiave del nazionalismo kosovaro, con i soldati dell’UCK, le citta’ storiche, le bandiere, la religiione, il machismo. Ancora una volta il messaggio non e’ a mero consumo interno. Il ritornello con i [...]

April 4, 2008

Former Leader in Kosovo Acquitted of War Crimes

By MARLISE SIMONS (New York Times, April 4, 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/europe/04kosovo.html
PARIS — The United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Thursday acquitted a former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes in a decision that could inflame anti-Kosovo sentiment in Serbia just weeks after Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.The commander, [...]