The retrospective history of the Province of Kosovo (before February 2003)

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Kosova's long struggle for independence
By Doug Lorimer, scheduled to appear in Green Left Weekly, 14 April 1999. The current conflict between the western powers and the Serbian state has its roots in the decision in 1913 by these powers to hand over nearly half of Albania (the present-day region of Kosova) to Serbian control. Once again the Albanian people have become the victims of collusion between Serbian national chauvinists and the imperialist “Great Powers”.
Renewed conflict in Kosovo: Bankrupt Serbian nationalism is still virulent
By Christophe Chiclet, Le Monde diplomatique, November 1997. A brief history of the Kosovo region of Serbia from 1389 to the present, with the acute difficulty of its 90% Albanian community and growing signs of irredentism.
Putting Kosovo into perspective
By Sahuc Michel and the comrades of the FA in Montpellier, Le Monde liberataire, 20 January 1999. The taking over in 1989 of the autonomous province of Kosovo by Belgrade was the first act which called into question the constitutional balance which was bequeathed by Tito. It saw the beginning of the break up of the Ex-Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia and history
By Michael Karadjis, Green Left Weekly, [March 1999]. This article appends a letter by Jerome Fitzgerald, Green Left Weekly, 17 March 1999, that criticizes Michael Karadjis's reference to “illegal occupation” when Kosovo is Serb territory and has been for well over a thousand years.
Who Is the So-called KLA? And Which Role Does It Play For NATO?
By Walter Grobe, editorial staff of Neue Einheit, 2 April 1999. The public is being deliberately deceived by the media if they talk about a “KLA” which, as they put it, represents just interests of the Albanian population of Kosovo.
Background of the struggle in Kosovo
By Gary Wilson, Workers World, 8 April 1999. A general overview of Kosovo. The Kosovo Liberation Army in Albania, which has US and German support, seeks an ethnically purse, Albanian-only Kosovo. The KLA has revived the call for a “Greater Albania” and has patterned some of its uniforms and insignia on the fascist unit set up in World War II.
Kosova's long struggle for independence
By Doug Lorimer, Green Left Weekly, [10 April 1999]. The current conflict between the western powers and the Serbian state has its roots in the decision in 1913 by these powers to hand over nearly half of Albania (the present-day region of Kosova) to Serbian control. Once again the Albanian people have become the victims of collusion between Serbian national chauvinists and the imperialist “Great Powers”.
Driven from Kosovo: How NATO Installed Terrorists in 1999
Emperor's Clothes, December 2003 [originally September 1999]. Interview with Chedomir Prelinchevich, Chief Archivist of Kosovo and leader of Pristina's Jewish Community.
Massacres in Kosovo never happened, say Canadians who investigated mass graves
By Bruce Garvey, The Ottawa Citizen 29 August 2004. The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is “beginning to panic” over its case against former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic according to a Vancouver detective sent to unearth mass graves in Kosovo and a Canadian filmmaker who documented the exhumations.