Ethnic Albanian demands for independence and continued reprisals against Serbs are undermining the morale and sense of purpose among international organisations operating in Kosovo. The mob Albanian terror continues in Kosovo. Serbs shot in mob attack Ethnic hatred flares on the streets of Kosovo, where peacekeepers are powerless to protect minorities, reports the Guardian. Is this the response. Kosovo is a legal vacuum, with uncertain laws, missing judges and ill-equipped courts.
Crimes go unpunished, cases are delayed, and the entire legal framework has become politicised.
Justice delayed in Kosovo Nearly half a year after NATO troops entered Kosovo, the international community is still struggling to establish the rudiments of a judicial system. The UN needs helps in Kosovo The United Nations administration in Kosovo, what there is of it, cannot pay teachers, doctors, lawyers more than a minimal stipend, and then only every other month. The police force remains embryonic, garbage is not collected in Pristina, and people still have not received new identity papers to replace the ones forcibly taken away when they were expelled. That is the price of half a day's bombing,'' a UN official told Steven Erlanger of The New York Times. For opponents of WTO, this is a kind of Woodstock They are pouring into Seattle this weekend in vans and on buses, by air and on foot - the college students and the church groups, the environmental campaigners, the Teamsters, Ralph Nader, Chinese dissidents and a man who became a hero in France for defacing a McDonald's.