Until lately, Kosovo had a decade of padding to quarantine itself from the rawness, violence and fear that clasped to the coattails of liberation in 1999, infecting the “provisional government” months that followed, carrying their bacillus of internecine murder – of alleged collaborators and of LDK members -- a good two years into the new decade (even longer in Ramush-land). It’s just been ripped away. 1999 is back. In our faces.
Kosovo Press Review - November 4
Pristina | 04 November 2009 | Petrit CollakuHere are the top stories in Kosovo’s main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
KOHA DITORE
“The EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX, is not dealing only with the trial of former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army but within a few months you will see results for corruption,” Theo Jacobs, the EULEX chief prosecutor said in a round table in Pristina.
EXPRESS
“Attempts to corrupt the commissioners of elections, threats and conditions towards them are the main problems for the process of the election campaign,” said Ibrahim Makolli from the New Kosovo Alliance, AKR.
KOSOVA SOT
Kosovo parliament speaker Jakup Krasniqi said that the comments of the governing coalition, Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, and Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, are due to election ‘fever’.
ZERI
The Vetevendosje, Self-determination movement has called on all Kosovo people to boycott the Kosovo local election. Vetevendosje claims to be against the elections because it says the elections are about ethnic decentralisation.
