March 24, 1999 — The U.S.-led NATO troops begin the 78-day aerial campaign against Serbia and the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to stop the genocide in Kosova (Kosovo). I remember the evening of 15 years ago when Western jets …
Author: getoar
A free man from Prishtina, Dardania, and a lawyer in Texas. He writes anything about his neck of the woods and a few things about languages, history, politics, and world trivia. He helps curate Plisi.org.
Did Bismarck support “greater Albania”?
(Excerpt from Jusuf Buxhovi’s Kosova history series)
Lexoje shqip • Read in Albanian
Overdue by a year, the Albanian League assigned Abdyl Frashëri and Mehmet Ali Vrioni to travel to European capitals to present the Albanian issue as key to …
Macedonian man: Serbian media scapegoating Albanians, inciting violence
Dallas, Texas — A Slavic Macedonian man who lost his brother in a recent lake-side shooting near his country’s capital, Scupi, has denied the possibility of a crime motivated by ethnic hatred, Albanian-language media report.
Mr. Cvetan Stevkovski (also Stefkovski) …
Schoolteacher donates lifetime salary
For 21 years, Shaban Sfishta returned every paycheck to the Kosovar government in an unmatched effort to help his country through times of war and reconstruction. He says he survived through faith and subsistence farming.
A former chemistry teacher from …
Myths about northern Kosovo
Dallas, Texas — The Serbian government on one side and insensible European idealists on the other — including naive Albanians who simply don’t get it — have propagated fundamental misconceptions about northern Kosovo. The list, though not comprehensive, is a …
Serbia’s economic nonsense
Kosovo’s reciprocating to an export ban by Serbia may lead to incorrigible economic losses for the latter. Even if access to the Kosovar market resumes, Serbian products may no longer be able to regain prominence, having been replaced by domestic …
Nightmare of a Kosovo Serb
Those who brought dread and horror to the Albanians in Kosovo throughout the 1990s have now turned against Kosovar Serbs north of the Iber River. But Prishtina will not allow another tragedy within its sovereign territory
Prishtina, Kosovo — In …
Solving a Constitutional Crisis: A Popular Vote for the President
Washington, D.C. — As the Kosovo leadership insists on constitutional solutions to the present political crisis, consideration ought to be given to the extra-constitutional practices that in fact have led to the current watershed. While the Constitution stipulates parliamentary elections …