kosovo cafe

• Un 'Invasion' Rankles

The UN mission in Kosovo began in 1999, after NATO swept in with a 78-day bombing campaign that halted Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's bloody expulsion of ethnic Albanians, who make up 90 per cent of Kosovo's population. Eight years later, Kosovo remains a UN protectorate, but internationals do more than enforce the peace. They train the police force, write school curricula and collect taxes. They even design traffic patterns for one-way city streets. Kosovo is a UN state created in the wake of a military campaign that saved tens of thousands of lives, but corrupt reconstruction efforts have turned the survivors' gratitude into resentment. Take France. During summer 1999, when it became clear that France's Bernard Kouchner would head the fledgling UN mission in Kosovo, the French...

..."Revolution," Albin Kurti told me at a cafe in Pristina last year, emptying his cappuccino in ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• Lecaliaj v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2009 FC 123 (2009)

...[3] While the Applicant was studying in Kosovo in 1983-1984, the Serbian police appeared periodic...He went with a friend to a café in Palv about a week after his arrival in Monteneg...

• Federal Court