I am telling Serbs to partition northern Kosovo, let it all stabalize and move in Serb ground troops for protection and when the U.S. cannot afford to keep Camp Bondsteel and withdraw in a few years by then Serbia will have regained strength and will conduct military exersizes with Russian troops in Serbia and then take back what is theirs by force.

The Russian troops would join them and I say good luck NATO, I dare you to try and attack then.

Sava, Beloit, U.S./Wisconsin

Thank you God for being a Serb.
We will survive guys whatever you throw on as. We've been bombed before,mass killed, flocked into extermination camps not so long ago, lived in ghettos and isolation. "Better death than a slave" is what Serbs chanted faced with Hitler. Today there is more Serb refugees than any other nation in region, but we are only side responsible for ethnic cleansing. We are presented as mindless bloodthirsty murderous half humans so all other ethnicities have right on self determination except as. Only in Serbia there are minorities living on their areas as before the war, unharmed, even Albanians (sorry Kosovars), and yet we are only oppressor in Balkans. We've always been the problem for any world power wishing to control the Balkans because of our idea that we can be free. For honorable cross and golden freedom. We will never surrender. Enough is enough.

dalmat, zadar, uk/croatia

Has Europe not learned from all its bitter experiences how great a matter can be kindled by a little fire? Remember, a fire knows no boarders!

Keith Cantrell, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr. James A,

Sine New Orleans Parrish has not been treated in "an objective, fair and constructive manner", and since its majority population has abandoned and dispossessed through gentrification program, "secession is utterly necessary".

Stanley Laham, Davie, Florida

JamesA look back at your history before you make an ignorant comment about Kosovo. Why is the US even involved in a civil war? Where was the genocide? NATO attacked a soverign country who is a Charter Member of the UN!!!!

Why didnt the US do anything about Rawanda? 250,000 people lost their lives in a 6 week period. We did nothing.

We Americans would be as angry as the Serbs are if 15% of the US was amputated and , lets say, given back to Mexico.

We wouldnt stand for it, why should they? International Law is EXACTLY THAT, it is the law and must be obeyed no matter what the circumstances are. Helsinki treaties, UN SC 1244...the UN in its whole... are they worthless? These acts basically toss them all aside.

JohnZ, Chicago, IL

This will not end. It is absurd to cut off a piece of a country just because one ethnic group demands independence. You cannot construct artificial borders.
NATO moved into Kosovo to stop Serbian agressions. The Serbian people suffered 78 days of bombs for what their leader did. Serbs signed the peace treaty based on UN Resolution which states, categorically, that Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia.
Now, 10 years later, Kosovo declares "independence" ILLEGALLY. The world has no right to "recognize" Kosovo as a country. What happened happened ten years ago. The people of Serbia should not be punished now. Kosovo can exist with a lot of autonomy, the Albanian sections can enjoy self-government and go on being part of Serbia the way it's always been. Social engineering does NOT work.

Parklyn, Bethesda, MD

Events in March 2004 were not riots, that was (as UN officials latter confirmed) an orginized pogrom of the Serbian people in Kosovo with many thousends of Serbs made to flee their homes, and many (Serbian) homes and churches were burnt. The only resistance to the pogrom happened in Mitrovica as this is the only major city in Kosovo where a significant number of serbs still lives. In all other cities 99% of Serbs had to leave. For example, several thousend of Serbs lived in Pristina before 1999, and now there is less than 100. That best describes UN and NATO "achievements" in Kosovo and the Serb sentiment towards them.

D, Christchurch, NZ

america makes the rules and then brakes the rules can some one explain what is right and what is wrong i do not understand america ?

nick, syd, oz

Had the Serbian government met its obligations to lead Kosovo in an objective, fair and constructive manner, secession would not have been called-for. As it is, it was utterly necessary.

JamesA, Manhattan, NY, USA

I wish i was over there in serbia so i can help my brothers serbs to protect whats ours,I was in the army 1999 in Presevo and back then we was protecting what was ours,we cant give that away.

kralj-ibi, sydney, Australia

Well, if the rational for awarding the Kosovo Albanians with the 15% of territory of Serbia was as a pay back for their suffering ... and acknowledgment that those two nations can not live in the same state (Serbia)...What is the rational for hoping that those two nation can live in the same state (Kosovo)? What, you change the label and troubles go away? It seems we have the same "brilliant masterminds" who planned this being the same one doing it to Afghanistan, Irak , Palestine...
Serbs do not get despondent - they get even!
In 5, 10 or 20 years. Serbs will still be harvesting their fields long after the name USA and Britain fades from the historical records.
Sincere condolences, however, to the family of the Ukrainian "peace-keeper" ...
The UN authorities placed him in the wrong place, at the wrong time , set him up to no-good and disposed of him...buy putting him into the harms way on task that has nothing to do with "peace"nor "keeping"

Dobrinko Doslo, Kitchener, CANADA

The Serbs must fight this all the way. What is happening in Kosovo is illegal!!!!!

k, london, UK