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"en.20040401.3.4-143"2
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Five years ago, the power of the Serb state over Kosovo, which is mainly populated by Albanians, was broken. The predominant memory that the people of Kosovo have of the Serbs is that of soldiers, police, tax collectors, prison wardens, unfriendly officials and unwanted rulers. They do not regard the remaining 5% of Serbs as people who will adopt the Albanian language or adapt in other ways.
In fact, this minority is suspected of wanting its old privileged position back. Its position is similar to that of the Turks in Greece and Bulgaria, the Hungarians in Slovakia and Romania and the Russians in the Baltic states, except that the memories in Kosovo are more recent and more bitter. The area which was designated the bilingual autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohia within Serbia after the Second World War, has, in practice, fallen apart into a Serb north – a few scattered Serbian villages under military surveillance – and an otherwise purely Albanian country. The few contacts between Serbs and Albanians result in violent conflict.
It should now be about the equality of people and good neighbourly relations. I expect that the Albanians intolerant attitude towards the Serbs, Turks and Roma – which is deplorable – will pass away as soon as they are certain that they can take over the running of the country and will never again be dominated by others."@en1
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