The ethnic, religious and political cauldron of the balkans has only really been entirely peaceful for four decades out of the past few centuries. from marshal tito s yugoslavia, where today. and that was when president tito kept a firm hand on yugoslavia and enver hoxha turned albania into a ferocious isolationist society. since they disappeared, the vicious infighting has returned. trouble boiled up the other week in kosovo, where the elected prime minister doesn t even want his small statelet to exist. 30 nato peacekeepers were injured. the trouble occurred in north kosovo, which is mostly ethnically serbian. an election boycott by the serbs meant that several ethnic albanian mayors were voted in on very small turnouts, and the serbs staged violent demonstrations
But they re not receiving any weapons or any real fundamental support in this fight. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. the ethnic, religious and political cauldron of the balkans has only really been entirely peaceful for four decades out of the past few centuries. from marshal tito s - yugoslavia, where today. and that was when president tito kept a firm hand on yugoslavia and enver hoxha turned albania into a ferocious isolationist society. since they disappeared, the vicious infighting has returned. trouble boiled up the other week in kosovo, where the elected prime minister doesn t even want his small statelet to exist. 30 nato peacekeepers were injured. the trouble occurred in north kosovo, which is mostly ethnically serbian. an election boycott by the serbs meant that several ethnic albanian mayors
Of the past few centuries. from marshall tito s - yugoslavia, where today. and that was when president tito kept a firm hand on yugoslavia and enver hoxha turned albania into a ferocious isolationist society. since they disappeared, the vicious infighting has returned. trouble boiled up the other week in kosovo, where the elected prime minister doesn t even want his small statelet to exist. 30 nato peacekeepers were injured. the trouble occurred in north kosovo, which is mostly ethnically serbian. an election boycott by the serbs meant that several ethnic albanian mayors were voted in on very small turnouts, and the serbs staged violent demonstrations against the result. guy delaunay is the bbc s balkans correspondent and he spoke to me