All over for Kostunica (bar the wailing) | B92 Blog http://blog.b92.net/blog/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Hugh Griffiths sr http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rss@b92.net rss@b92.net Blog A-JE! RSS generator v0.3 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:35:56 +0000 http://blog.b92.net/user_stuff/avatars/mali/671/4671.jpg Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/ 50 50 Re: Oh he will... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181939
Not to mention food.

All the best ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:12 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Oh he will... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181489
mikimedic
D....

Don't you think it is just logical once you have no arguments to run away? Which our dear Huey seems to have just done. And I'd looove to hear any comment to my yes/no question above. But am sure I will not hear it.

Well.... Sting said it long time ago....

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
A gentleman will walk but never run.

I do wonder if he will ever dare to post a new blog again.

But still, this caliber of 'people' are faceless, aren't they?

Greetings to all from Islamabad.

...Miki, he will. He is not completely unqualified for what he does. He still possesses (or it might be better to say he lacks) certain characteristics that make him qualified...

Take care, Miki

Btw, how's in Islamabad? Peaceful I hope?
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:53:22 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Bata Huey... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181456
Don't you think it is just logical once you have no arguments to run away? Which our dear Huey seems to have just done. And I'd looove to hear any comment to my yes/no question above. But am sure I will not hear it.

Well.... Sting said it long time ago....

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
A gentleman will walk but never run.

I do wonder if he will ever dare to post a new blog again.

But still, this caliber of 'people' are faceless, aren't they?

Greetings to all from Islamabad.

]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:34:31 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: The REAL SERBIA http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181450
As for perception, just tell me the views of New Yorkers after 9/11 towards you know whom?
Guantanamo? need to name more? ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:24:47 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181445 my interest is in international humanitarian law

Don't start it. You wanna talk to me about Geneva 1945 Conventions and treatment of civilians and POWs? Ok... how about Guantanamo, as a start? Abu Graib? go on, man....
you worked for 'something' you say. Exactly. 'Some thing' you are....

]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:18:35 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181436 ah yes, the trap! Beware of engaging in discussion with people whom we can charitably describe as being subject to too much propaganda for too long. Some tough lovin' needed here, clearly.

...and, yes, here we are, my favorite. if no substance to provide in response, accuse the other party of being brainwashed...
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:11:16 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181429 if you consider the fact that Albanians had to know Serbian, but Serbs didn't necessarily need to know Albanian

It is certainly an interesting new concept in the human rights lawt. It is not sufficient, it seems, if the majority grants full scope of rights to minorities (like full use of their own language), but perhaps majority must now learn minorities' languages as well, in order not to offend minorities?

So every Serb in Vojvodina should now learn Hungarian and Slovakian?
OOORRRR every American in California, as of tomorrow my dear AIda MUST START LEARNING SPANISH???

Yes, I love it!!!

you must be a brilliant master of the human rights law. Are u coming to HR council in Geneva in March? Perhaps you deliver your statement there.

]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:07:13 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Bata Huey... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k181109
First, I would like to hear your take on Aid the Palestine’s argument that the Kosovo Albanians struggle for the Independence is decades if not centuries long. Which comes as a stark contrast to your position that it is all thanks to Sloba? Why do you deny the continuity of the struggle to Kosovo Albanians? Could it be that you, as the loyal subject of Her Majesty, feel a little bit uneasy to discuss the Maoist roots of the latest Kosova Independists? Or you, again as the loyal subject of Her Majesty, feel that it could be unappropriate to mention that one of the previous generations of Kosova Independists capitulated full two years after their allies in Berlin?

Second, I would like to ask you to comment on the allegations that you are a closet homophobe (although some might argue that the accusations are inaccurate because, after you latest outburst, the term ‘closet’ could hardly be adequate).

And, last but most definitely not the least, I would like to discus eventual inconsistencies in the rules of capitalization in English language. I would really (but REALLY) enjoy the advice of such an expert.

Cheers,
D ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:58:45 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: therapy? http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180937
By the same token, do:

Serbs in BiH have the right to secede?
Ossetians from Georgia?
Abkhaz from Georgia
Chechens from Russia?
Basqs from Spain?
Turks from Cyprus?
Kurds from Turkey?

Don't give me bullshit. Plain Yes or No? Can you do it?
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:54 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Interesting take http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180922 Milosevic's policies in Kosovo led to the rise of the KLA

Interesting, very interesting.... Hugh, give me an honest answer. Whose polices in Kosovo lead to the rise of Milosevic? (1950-1990). ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:13:02 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Hugh http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180683
I don't stereotype. I form my own opinion about each INDIVIDUAL I meet. Regardless of where they come from or their religion. I was raised a little different than most I guess. My great grand Mother was Arapahoe and my great grand father was half Scottish and half Apache! Guess you could say my family is a Heinz 57 blood type. So I was taught from a very early age what tollerance and exceptence mean. But I was also taught to stand up for what I believe to be right and just and what I feel is right. and to that I stand firm. I was also taught that respect only comes when you give it and that a Man is only as good as his word. To always stand on the side of justice and LAW and I see niether justice nor law in the manner that the Kosovo Independence was declared. Real Talks never really took place.

I mean no disrespect to you but I am very direct and very forward. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:57:04 GMT Dale http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180637
Hugh Griffiths
ah yes, the trap! Beware of engaging in discussion with people whom we can charitably describe as being subject to too much propaganda for too long. Some tough lovin' needed here, clearly.


So what are you referring to precisely ? Your arguments are rather weak. I would have expected that you, like Albanians and their legal experts paid by drug money (and yes we can debate about that too) , would claim that 1244 does not guarantee integrity of Serbia but country which disappeared once Montenegro separated and then we could have discussed about UN Charter and procedures for secession. But your answer (while rhetorically nice) is rather empty in essence.

As for your comment about Jerusalem. I had an opportunity to visit it (without visa) and I can assure that Palestinians do not appreciate the fact that the Dome of Rock is controlled by Israel. Why don't you go to Gaza and try to explain to them that it is not bad that they need visa to visit Jerusalem :) Also I would be very interested in seeing your attempts to explain that point to one of my Egyptian and/or Iranian students....

But seriously now anything can be debated but...if you were at all familiar with SFRJ constitution you would know that all secessions were ILLEGAL since any type of secession required (under SFRJ constitution) consensus between all the nations. I also know that consensus was very popular in communist countries and rarely (almost never needed/required in the west) but. .. that was THE LAW which every single nation/nationality in SFRJ agreed to. Once you start making precedents it never stops. And once you start claiming that something is applicable only to a particular situation and cannot be use anywhere else you will run into mess... I could give you an example from Qur'an with that particular problem :) But I am not sure if you would be interested...I will just point to surah 9.5 and hadiths corresponding to that :) (related to particular event/time vs. general and the mess that came out of that)

]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:02:36 GMT Sofroniye http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180624
Hugh Griffiths
I am deadly serious.

I worked in Kosovo in 1999 and 2000 for something called the war crime trauma unit. So as much as I appreciate my friends in Belgrade, the Kosovars are real individuals to me, too, not simply objects demonised by media outlets intent on portraying them as drug dealers etc.

And as far as international law goes, my interest is in international humanitarian law. And before Kostunica gets taken seriously while whining about "illegality" and "violence" he'll have to arrest those hundreds of persons responsible for far more serious, non-debatable violations of rights, and not just those caught on video acquired by courageous human rights activists.



So what are your qualifications ? B.A. in Psychology, Pol. Sci, ? We all have different interests but I see you are willing to "argue" about the international law so I was just wondering what is your expertise in that field?


]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:42:23 GMT Sofroniye http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Don't say... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180403
AidaPalestine
No, don't use that in forming opinion about other people.... you almost fooled me, you know.
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:55:28 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Really? http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180376 http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:20:49 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Really? http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180365
Aid the Palestine
Actually yes. Testosterone?
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:12:08 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: So the answer is no... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180362 http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:11:22 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: So the answer is no... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180357 http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:07:56 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ So the answer is no... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180346
Aid the Palestine
No, sweetie, is the answer to all your questions. Any more?...at least in your case. What makes you think that in my case it might be different? Your feeling of moral superiority? Huh sweetie? ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:02:06 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Crno-bijeli svijet, la, la, la, la, la http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180333 http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:55:22 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Crno-bijeli svijet, la, la, la, la, la... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180323
AidaPalestine
A big fat minus on my behalf, D. I should have known better.
But I'm always so happy to see when a man's feeling of intellectual superiority makes his testosterone shoot up the sky. Cheers to yours right now, you must be proud!

Hugh, I actually think you're wrong about this guy,,,, definitely not a Jew hater... rather an Arab loather..Interesting logics, if I’m not a Jew hater I have to be an Arab loather? I wonder if the reverse logics apply? I mean, are you a Jew hater if you are not an Arab loather? What do you say, Aid the Palestine, are you an Arab loather?
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:50:02 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: See Bata Huey, http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180270 But I'm always so happy to see when a man's feeling of intellectual superiority makes his testosterone shoot up the sky. Cheers to yours right now, you must be proud!

Hugh, I actually think you're wrong about this guy,,,, definitely not a Jew hater... rather an Arab loather.. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:24:53 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ See Bata Huey, http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180103 http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:44:51 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Whoa Huey... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180041
I sincerely hope your kids will not have anything to do with Nürnberg Laws, unless you intend to send them off to a war zone to become war criminals... but maybe you intend to do exactly that. (and I honestly have no clue what they have to do with Kosovo independence or anything I commented on).

Now, seriously, Huey, what caused this outburst? Annoying feeling of intellectual inferiority? Well Huey, don’t take that so hard. Your intellectual inferiority is amply compensated with your malice. Of the “humanitarian” kind, off course…

And D, may I ask what caused this interesting outburst? Please don't tell me it's your superb feeling of intellectual superiority?

Aid the Palestine

This one I won't even comment on... neither the grammar nor the connotation of the phrase.


Capitalise Hugh....for crying out loud! ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:42:47 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Whoa Huey... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k180040
I sincerely hope your kids will not have anything to do with Nürnberg Laws, unless you intend to send them off to a war zone to become war criminals... but maybe you intend to do exactly that. (and I honestly have no clue what they have to do with Kosovo independence or anything I commented on).

Now, seriously, Huey, what caused this outburst? Annoying feeling of intellectual inferiority? Well Huey, don’t take that so hard. Your intellectual inferiority is amply compensated with your malice. Of the “humanitarian” kind, off course…

And D, may I ask what caused this interesting outburst? Please don't tell me it's your superb feeling of intellectual superiority?

Aid the Palestine

This one I won't even comment on... neither the grammar nor the connotation of the phrase.


Capitalise Hugh....for crying out loud! ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:42:44 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Whoa Huey... http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179942 Homosexual jew haterIs this info courtesy of MI6? Then I guess that the fact that my kids would enjoy the benefits of Nürnberg Laws makes me a very interesting case of Jew hating closet homosexual? This providing that Aid the Palestine confirms the existence of these laws.

Now, seriously, Huey, what caused this outburst? Annoying feeling of intellectual inferiority? Well Huey, don’t take that so hard. Your intellectual inferiority is amply compensated with your malice. Of the “humanitarian” kind, off course…

Btw, tell me, shouldn’t we use capital J in ‘Jews’?
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:04:46 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh, my friend… http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179874
By the way, it is okay to be gay, so, don't hate yourself so much.

But do us all a favour and leave your anti-semitism on the way out. Homosexual jew haters don't have much of a future, as Ernst Roehm discovered to his cost. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:49:31 GMT Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Hugh, my friend… http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179728
Aid the Palestine
Check your facts please. Serbia obviously hasn't offered Albanians the right to self-determination, because they would have used that one a long time ago.

What do you think, how long ago is this long time ago? 1980s? 1940s? 1915s? 1878s? Before Mislosevic times? I would really like to hear your "humanitarian" law expert opinion...

Btw. how's my English? I'm not quite sure if I used quotation marks right. And you seem to be an expert... ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:45:01 GMT Domazet http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: The REAL SERBIA http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179619
I think you make a good point when you say that you have been met by "openness and friendship" living in Serbia. Although I struggle to avoid stereotypes ,I have to say that people in Belgrade (and throughout the Balkans for that matter) are extremely open, friendly and hospitable in a way you don't find in many EU countries.

At the same time, today in Serbia, there is a casual, widespread rascism towards Albanians and I would caution you against assuming that Kosovars are the kind of drug-dealing, Islamist untermensch which some Serbian diplomats, a great many politicians and much of the media like to suggest.

They don't trust the likes of Nikolic and Kostunica, and if you read some decent history books you'll soon discover why.

Finally, I am not 100% sure which mosque in the centre of Belgrade you are referring to, but you might want to check whether much attention was paid to it back on 18 March 2004.


]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:25:51 GMT Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179467
AidaPalestine

I am not Palestinian (and let's not start on Palestine, it's a totally different shoe than Kosovo... a discussion you definitely DON'T want to start with me).

As a matter of fact, some 7 years of my life I've been living amongst the Arabs - in Q8, UAE and Iraq, and I feel quite sympathetic towards the Palestinians, as 3 of my Palestinian mates could tell you. If, for nothing else, then because the international law (humanitarian or otherwise, Hugh), doesn't work there either. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:50:40 GMT badreligion http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: You will miss Kostunica if he goes http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179403 For all his failures Kostunica is one of the few politicians who tries to keep to his own direction somewhere in the middle. That doesn't make him popualr in polarizing country. But I doubt that Serbia will be better off without him.

I am really surprised that you think he is in the middle. He is practically a radical!
I haven't noticed any sign of an independent course in his political actions. His only trouble with opening-up to this miserable nation is the sweet taste of leadership. He may lack temper for the local taste but he is not lacking viciousness at all. Seriously, isn't his fascinating stubborn self-sufficiency without a decent vision, the key to every good dictator?

If I abstract from all those concerns for a moment, one thing is sure: if he disappeared today, there is only one reason why I would remember him well - Zoran Djindjic.
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:08:32 GMT Natasha Milicevic http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ The REAL SERBIA http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k179275
I am new in this forum or blog but let me introduce myself. I am an american living and working is Serbia. I have come to love and respect this country and its citizens (especially my wife ;-) ). Since coming here I have been met with notthing but openness and friendship. Before coming to Serbia I lived in Germany and was never met there in this manner. My children (3 of them) are German / American and my oldest son has been here and can not wait to return.

Even though the US and other countries bombed the hell out of this country I have never experienced any form of discrimation or hate towards me.

As to the statements that have been writen here I can only say that I agree that if the initial talks had been done properly and BOTH sides met agreement that the move for independence would have been legal. However, this was not the case. The Albanians in Kosovo were PROMISED something that gave them no reason to talk with Serbian Officials. This is one reason that I can only say that "I am almost embarrished to say I am american"! But I am very proud to say I am TEXAN!!

I do not see what is to be gained out of recalling the Ambassadors or blocking political relations. Nor can I understand it when hooligans attack private companies and destroy Serbian property and endanger their own people and their children. This brings nothing but a bad image and does not show what I have learned as true Serbian Culture. The same hooligans that damage property and endanger lives also wear Nike and Addidas, Levi jeans and other note worthy clothing!!! I wish they could MAKE UP THEIR MINDS!!! But Kids will be Kids.

I do not support the move to Independence in this manner nor can I. I believe that it does violate international law.

Some say that Serbia can not live together in peace with Albanians, Moslims in general. Then please tell me why there is a Mosque in the center of Belgrade that nobody pays attention to. I have come to know Serbia in a different way. This country is full of acceptance but it can not except the fact that land that has been a part of Serbia for centries has been taken from them and this under the eyes of the UN and EU. This move only adds to the instability of the region and not the stability. Adding to the stability would have come from PRODUCTIVE talks with all sides.



]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:05:23 GMT Dale http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k178988
www.diakonia.se/ihl

It's about Palestine, but it's IHL... a really good site, enjoy! ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:25:18 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k178922
I worked in Kosovo in 1999 and 2000 for something called the war crime trauma unit. So as much as I appreciate my friends in Belgrade, the Kosovars are real individuals to me, too, not simply objects demonised by media outlets intent on portraying them as drug dealers etc.

And as far as international law goes, my interest is in international humanitarian law. And before Kostunica gets taken seriously while whining about "illegality" and "violence" he'll have to arrest those hundreds of persons responsible for far more serious, non-debatable violations of rights, and not just those caught on video acquired by courageous human rights activists.

]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:24:52 GMT Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/ Re: Hugh Griffiths http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#k178901 http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/#komentari Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:56:36 GMT AidaPalestine http://blog.b92.net/text/2259/All%20over%20for%20Kostunica%20%28bar%20the%20wailing%29/