The Paradoxes of Resolution 1244
Laws by their nature try to put order and control over different societal relations: between a person and a state, between states etc. They in themselves involve an interest from which some people benefit more and some less, dependant on there being whatever factor, one standard, a testimony that describes the developing level of a particular civilization.
Macedonian Macedonians National Minority in its own country?
Homo Balkanicus has undergone five centuries of Ottoman slavery that has embedded a servant mentality as an almost genetic characteristic in its Slavic population, which migrated to the Balkan Peninsula from behind the Carpathian Mountains around the sixth century. This is a unique theory to explain the wide range of dictatorial regimes in the region ruled by Stalin, Ceausescu, Zhivkov, Hoxha and, slightly less brutally, by Tito.
Peace piecemeal
The news from Bosnia makes sustainable peace seem impossibly remote, more remote than it actually is. The images are, indeed, bleak. In summer 2000 we saw pictures of busloads of Muslim Bosniac women seeking justice for the massacre of their husbands and sons that took place at Srebenica five years ago and we saw the hostile reception they received from the current Serb residents of Srebenica when the women returned for their ceremony of remembrance. What we tend to overlook is that there is another Bosnia where peace is being built, village by village, despite the many acts ofnot-so-ancient hatred. Those village islands of peace can be replicated.