Rebuilding Kosovo

July 2002
The war in Kosovo may have ended four years ago but the UN is still struggling to reconcile former enemies and mediate in property disputes.

Hassan is one of the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians whose houses were damaged during the war. Rather than rebuild his home, he moved his family into the unoccupied flat of a local Serbian woman. Since then, he has refused all requests to move out. "I have to live there because my house burnt during the war," he explains. However, the flat's real owner doesn't see it that way and complains to the UN. But with many land registry records destroyed during the war, even finding out who originally owned each property is difficult. And with the UN busy mediating in property disputes, there is no system in place to deal with the illegal constructions that have gone up since the end of the war. However, there is one area where Serbs and Albanians successfully co-operate. "It's a cruel fact that the area that is most successful for inter-ethnic co-operation between Albanians and Serbs is in organised crime," states UN police officer Derek Chappell. Until they can co-operate similarly successfully in other areas, Kosovo's future will continue to look uncertain.

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[kosovoseals]

Oh my god, people like you should go back to school, but hey, ignorance is curable, but not stupidity.

In which planet do you live ?!

[dardankuqi8]

FUCK SERBIA

[3SRBIJACCCC]

80% of Afghan drugs are being smugglered to USA and Western Europe by Kosovo's Albanians. That is why Slobodan Milosevic was not allowed to bring order and law to Kosovo,as the oldest Serbian part in Christian,hystorical and cultural way.

[549brigada]

LET US LEAVE THE VIOLENCE TO TYRANTSWHO HAVE EMBARRASSED THEM SELVES FOR ALL TIME,AND LET US INSTEAD SHOW THE POWER OF LAW AND JUSTICE,LET US SHOW THEM HOW MUCH WE LOVE AND RESPECT FREEDOM AND THE FREE SERBIA WITH OUR KOSOVO-METOHIJA.

AS LONG AS THE SERBIAN PEOPLE EXISTS,KOSOVO-METOIJA IS SERBIA

[arrowx24]

gimme a break...rebuilding the dream?gimme a break,they are gypsies who decided to make their own country,,,nothing in kosovo belongs to the albanian citizens,,alla built by serbians...if this area belonged to albanian from the begining they would live in caves or in tents.albanians are the worst people,they are cappable of NOTHING,they only good at stealing other peoples lifes...

so if by "building the dream" you mean building a country of thieves and total anarchy,I agree...

[Cale64]

Are all Serbian homes burned by the UCK

[TR215]

New campain in the region. SLAVS BACK TO THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS.

[TR215]

@Srbin9444

BUt you pay..we will not defeat you with guns, but we will out breed you in the region. We will out breed you, fyromians and boy lovers of athens. Once again, the indigenous illyrians will rise.

Low fertility will be your extinction, you judgement for massacring innocent ppl.

[TR215]

@Srbin9444

butchering 13,000 women children and men is not propaganda you bastard. butchering 100K ppl in bosnia is not propaganda you bastard..butchering ppl IS NOT PROPAGANDA.

[tornadopz]

@Srbin9444 THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA! ITS TRUE AND REALITY WHAT HAPPENED,MAYBE YOU DONT LIKE IT BUT YOU MUST AGREE WITH REALITY, DIRTY SERBIAN GIPSY'S ..FAR A WAY FROM HERE GO WHERE U BELONG TO RUSSIAN KARPATE