Balkan Witness: News, Background, and Progressive Perspectives on the Yugoslav Wars

BALKAN WITNESS

BALKAN WITNESS
News, Background, and
Progressive Perspectives on the Yugoslav Wars

Kosovo Declares Its Independence from Serbia
February 17, 2008
Slide show

Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo near a refugee center.

Ethnic Albanians celebrate Kosovo’s declaration of independence.

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Articles

Historical Background    Documents     Commentary

Reports from the Area of Conflict Non-violent Solutions

Post-War Serbia    Post-War Kosovo

Croatia    Macedonia   Bosnia

Kosovo Albanians in Serbian Prisons
The Racak Massacre (January 15, 1999)
War-crimes Deniers

The debate about the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre, Bosnia

The Milosevic War-Crimes Trial

Letters from Kosovo and Bosnia, by Peter Lippman

The crisis in Kosovo found many progressives concerned about the plight of the ethnic Albanians yet distrustful of NATO intervention. A major difficulty for most Americans is our lack of familiarity with the history of the former Yugoslavia. Most people were largely unaware of events there until the beginning of NATO military action.

This site presents a number of first-hand reports, histories, commentaries, and links to other information sources. We sincerely hope that this first-hand perspective will give us the information we need to understand events in Kosovo in their historical context.

We hope that these observations will provide a glimpse behind the headlines into the heart of the Kosovo conflict.

Our present focus is on countering the disinformation being spread in support of enduring Serbian denial of war crimes. This denial is propagated not only within Serbia but outside as well. See War-crimes Deniers.

Updated June 19, 2008

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