Why do serbs hate albanians

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BBC has a thorough rundown of the histories of Albania and Serbia. Learn More: KQED Frontline: Kosovo via PBS "The following chronology traces the roots of the war in Kosovo from Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power in the late s and through the diplomatic gambles and military threats that failed to head off the conflict. It charts the escalation of the air war with Serbia and the steps that finally led to NATO's victory in early June The Kosovo Memory Book: "Approximately victims' family members attended a presentation held in the Belgrade City Hall on October 6th where the Humanitarian Law Center HLC presented the results of the list of the killed, dead, and missing Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks, and other non-Albanians in Kosovo in the period from until To put the recent violence at the soccer match in perspective, here's a brief timeline of key events in Serbia-Albania relations, beginning in - Along with Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro, Serbia joins the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, ruled under Josip Broz Tito.

When the Kosovo Liberation Army started its guerrilla warfare in , the West began to pay attention to the province. But it dealt with the province's political leaders, people who were increasingly marginalised in their own community. But the Americans negotiated a deal which allowed Milosevic to escape this threat, by introducing "observers" on the ground.

Predictably, the observers did little to prevent Milosevic's murderous actions. Ethnic Albanians also live in neighbouring Macedonia, where they amount to at least a quarter of the population.

The fear is that an independent Kosovo would rekindle demands for the independence of the Albanians in Macedonia, and spark off a bigger war. Not necessarily. The Albanians are themselves divided into two major tribes and the Kosovo Albanians, despite their common language and Muslim religion, are different from their brethren in Albania proper. They experienced a different history, and a milder form of communism. They are also better educated, and tend to look down on their brethren from Albania.

President Milosevic started expelling the Kosovo Albanians a year ago. The air strikes have prompted Milosevic into speeding up a policy which he already decided upon.

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Serbian and Albanian children in Kosovo learn different versions of history, both of which are biased and incorrect, says research conducted by the Belgrade University Centre for Peace Studies.

Balkan Transitional Justice Memorialisation. Published by BIRN.