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PETAR
V
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KOSOVOruOT
by
Petar
V
Gruj
iC
Hn$nilousturks
PITTSBURGH,
PENNSYLVANIA
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PREEACE
.::e
d
rvriti.g
the
book
some
years
ago,
when
the Kosovo
cnsrs
was not
yet
:L-.
but
one
had all
reasons
to expect it to become in
a
foreseeable furure.
-
.
c\pectation
turned out
true and
the writing
soon took the form of a race
.:',
een
the
accelerating
series
of
events
and the record
about them. I
was
not
-
::lat
my
concept
of
the approach
would
withstand
the current
going
oo,
:
i
can
now look
with
comfort
back
to
the
recent
history
in
this
respect,
.":h
made the Kosovo
issue one
of
the
central concerns
in
the last two
-,id.es, not only on Balkan
and Europe,
but even
of
the
global
extent. Being
:-rlrralist,
physicist,
my
approach
was
intended
to
reach
the
essence
of the
-:e
.
rvhich
has escaped
politicians
to my knowledge. Whether
this
may
be
.
l:idered
a
handicap
or an
advantage
it is
the readers
to
judge.
To
paraphrase
:,rlitician
-
politics
is
too serious affair to
be
left
to
politicians.
In
fact,
the
-'
, )st
appropriate
professional
status
for
an author on l(osovo
affair
would
be
::
inthropologist,
even a
biologist, like fuchard
Dawkins. (A
possible
title
of
-,c
book
might have
been
"Selfish
gene
-
case study
of Kosovo issue").
Besides the attempt to
infer
the crux
of
the
mater
at a
deeper
level, I have
-.ed
to
put
the entire affair
in
a
much
broader
context.
I
do
not consider that
-:rr-thing
in Europe
may be locahzed and
isolated
from
the
entire world
situ-
*:ion
and
global
politics.
The Kosovo issue
appears a
paradigmatic
case)
with
.
r
pn2t
y
implications,
that any attempt to fathom
the essential fearures of
the
-lispute
over
the region without
putting
it in a broader
context
would
be
loomed
to
failure.
The book
appears
neither historical, nor political, nor ideological, nor
an-
::-rropological)
nor
religious) nor.., but each
of
all
these aspects. It
is certainly
.lot
an
academic work,
since the latter imposes
an analytical approach,
which
I
le
ave
to scholars.
As
a naruralist I experience the
world
in
a
synthetic
way,
ii'hich
leaves
no room
to formal
pedantry
and elegance.
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I
am
indebted
to
a number
of
people
who
have
helped
the
book
to
be
written,
though
some
of
them
not
only
were
not
in
favour
of my
interpreta-
tions,
but
evei
took
the
opposite
view.
I owe
much
to Dejan
Kosanovii
for
his
srrppiying
me
with
relevfrt
[terature
and
valuable
discussions.
I have
made
.*iJrrriuJ*.
of
the
original
work
of
vladislav
Sotirovii, who kindly
provided
me
with
other
import"i-rt
ro*..r.
My
gratinrde
goes
to Simone
Lefebre,
who
kindty
provided
me with
many
usefirl
iefeences
and
Aleksandar
Loma
for
his
url.r"tl.
book
on
Serb
archaic
language
and
Kosovo
myth"
My
principal
sources
have
been,
however,
public
-edi",
both
Serbian
and
from
abroad.
They
nrrn
out
to
be
a
part
of the
affair
and
thus
equally
object
of study,
and
not
just
a source
of
information.
iast,
but
not
the
least,
my
deepest
gratitude
goes
to my
wife
Ljiljana
for
her invaluable help,
encouragements,
pitience
and
love,
without
which
this
book have
never
been
written.
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PROLOGUE
"
i
I
Kosovo
and
Metohia
became
a
part
of
Serbia
again,
after
Ottoman
:j
',\-as
pushed
from the
Balkan
by the allied
Serbian, Greek, Bulgarian
',1
)ntenegrin
forces
(First Balkan
war). In
fgf
B
Vojvodina,
which
was
a
-:
i
t;le
Austro-Flungarian
Empire,
joined
Serbia, which in her rlrrn
joined
'
'
'.''
the
new state
of
South
Slavs.
Kosovo and Metohia
(I(M) brought
''--
i
lcr)
|
.
"rze
able
Nbanian
population
(Shqiptars
in
the
followi.g),
whereas
in
dina
lived
an approximately
equal
number
of ethnic F{ungarians.
But
.:I'rr.S
the
latter
never caused
serious
troubles
in the new
state,
Shqiptars
.
-
'::te
from
the
start disturbing
element
within
Serbia
and
Yugoslavia.
For
.-,\t
two
decades,
since
disintegration
of
Yugoslavia, I(iM
has
become
a
:
'lot
on
the
globe.
What
makes
the region
of the
size of
Corsica and
pop-
-
:-,
rn
of
somethirg
over
million
so
special that
it forced
first
Serbia, and
then
"
:
:he
globe, to engage
in extinguishing
the fire
which threatens
to
endanger
'
,,
-'ntire
world
orderl
Kosovo region, the south-western
part
of
Serbia,
has
been considered
a
.-.:prrted
land"
for the
last
two
cenfi.rries.
The
traditional
western
image
of the
'-:c
has
been
that
two competing
populations,
Serb
and ethnic-
Albanian
:-:s
are
fighting
for the
dominance
over
the region.
The actual
argumenrarion
'
:
the
present day
deadlock is that
two sides
are
claiming
their righrs
ac-
.
:.1ing
two
distinct sources:
Serbs referring
to
their "historical
rights",
erhnic
-.-
ranians
relyirg
on their
actual
numerical
preponderance.
\\'e
show
that the
whole
issue
is
set up
upside
down and that
a
number
-::sconceptions,
which has been
developed
and
maintained
up
to
the
presenr,
:e
to
be
rectified
before
a
serious
discourse
on the
matter
can
be carried
out.
','','e
expose
historiCd,
political,
demographic,
ethical,
and religious
background
i
the
issue
and argue
that
the latter
is
predominantly
of
the
anthropological
".lrLlre,
rather
than of
political
one.
We
examine
a number
of
possible
solu-
:rons
of the "dispute",
from an
ideal
to
the
realistic
one)
putting
the
whole
.)sue
in
the
broader historical
and
acrual
worldwide
political perspective.
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INTRODUCTION
one
picture
srys
ruLyre
than
thousnmds
word.s.
-
-
l-'tulAlN.
Des
refugidr
k.rovars
ac,cueiilis
i
Lyon
par
tra
croix-Rauge,
re
1g
arrrir.
'/lLlTAlRE'
Materiel
franlais
dans
f'attente
dlun
d6part
vers
la
yougcslavie"
French
magazine
published
a
couple
of
photos
from
the
Lion
airporr
on
-':ril
lB,
1999,
at
the
time
when
NATO
bombers
were
pourirg
their
lethal
-
i--rCen
over
Serbia
(and
artlv
((^-o
Fisure
I.
Ethnic
Albanian
refugees
at
the
Lion
airport,
April
IB
,lggg.
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venting
humanitarian
catastrophe"
at
Kosovo'
One
picture
showed.the
French
.r;-"p""t
ready
to
be
transported
-to
Kosovo,
the
other
presented
an
ethnic-
eruli".a-ly
f.om
Koso.rt,
as
refugees
just
arrived
to
France.
The photo
de-
,.ru",
*.ll
oui
attention,
for
it
'ptiLt
viry
much
indeed;
it
exposes
vividly
;;
;.rl
crux
of
the
matter.
Let
us
analyzg.this
picnrre'
presenting the
unfor-
*r,"
ia-ily
of
Kosovars
(as
the
ethnic
Albanians
call
themselves).
----
rirra
of
all,
it
is
a
single
family,
consisting
of
three
generations.
on
the
left
we
see
grand.mothe.
t*Itft
,.*f;,'o'
the
rifht
father
and
mother
of
the
chil-
;;;
dt-g
around.
Evidently,'it
is.the
pJasant
family'
Tou.gh
the
children
"pp.ri.
*.fidressed
1p-UuUtyty
a
humanitarian
agency)'
the
adults
reveal
if,Ji.
-od.rt
wellbeing'
W.
.,otitl
first
three
daughters,'
*e
ltaellJlomewhat
[iaa..,
behind
the
bof
in
the
centre)
and
two
twin
girls
l:i:.t"
her'
Then
we
,..i*"
a""ghters
in
the
front
and
rwo
boys
beside
as
well.
The
cenual
figure
;;;;
,h."y;,-g
girl,
of
about
B,
* 9
'['o-t
the
V
sign
in
a Churchill-like
;Uil.
What
is
tlJttying
to
tell
usl
flgjamitytt
n"t*,1111*victorious
po-
3ition,,.
Who
is going
io
d"efeat
whom?
Who
initructed
her
to
pose
before
the
carneras
in
that
mannerf
These
are
the questions
which
come
to
mind
when
looking
at
this
scene
at
the
Lion
airport'
We
shall
come
back
to
this
photo
-r"j.lit
.t
later
on,
but
here
*t
t"td
just
to
bear
it in
mind'
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