Like in every nation, there are good people, and there are bad people. In Serbia, good people suffer because of errors that the bad people made. I hope you come to Serbia one day and see that we don’t kill people on the streets. hahah
It’s nice to read a positive opinion from an American. Greeting from a beautiful little town caled Novi Sad.

Pozdrav!

Oh dear oh dear …. wake up and smell the coffee, Kosovo is 90% ethnic Kosovar, less than 10% Serb. Welcome to the 21st Century, it’s time to kiss goodbye to Kosovo Polje and stop living in the 14th century if you want Serbia to prosper and grow and join the community of modern Europe. You don’t say who you supported in the recent election, you don’t say if you want to remain allied to Russia or join the EU? Big questions Petar, think carefully, Serbs are good at self-delusion (in my experience, my folk in Beograd are ponekad tvrda glava!), good at blind, negative self-destruction, and very very poor at simple public relations with the rest of the world.

Please don’t commit nationalistic hari-kiri, it is not in Serbia’s self-interest to portray itself to the outside as backward-looking, anti-EU, and pro-Russian and let Croatia, Slovenia, Crna Gora itd hog the limelight as progressive countries. I love Beograd and Novi Sad (loads of porodica tamo), I spent many holidays there and throughout SFR with my family before you were born from the ’50s to the ’80s pre rata, now I own some land in Ulcinj (behind God’s back for you no doubt!), my father was a Serb refugee from Hitler and then Tito, and I feel nothing but shame for what atrocities were wrought by the JNA and its allies against fellow SFR citizens in the ’90s, a time when Serbia’s name was dragged though the mud by its leaders.

My name does not go down well in Dubrovnik, I don’t feel comfortable any longer in the village in Bosna where my grandfather was pop u crkvi and and my father was born (before Jugoslavia existed) and which was extensively ethnically cleansed of all Muslims by Serbs 15 years ago. I was in Bosnia last year, in Hrvatska last month. And yes I know what NATO did bombing Beograd and N Sad was also a crime, but I am not proud to be Serb any more, and I won’t be proud again until Serbia re-joins civilisation and recognises Kosovo’s right to self-determination.

Where incidentally do you stand on for example Chechnya or Tibet? ‘Kosovo is Serbia’ is as empty a political slogan as ‘Tibet is China’ IMHO.

Chris/Kico (a Serb in London)

Here are some pictures from the protest in Toronto.

http://greyscaleca.blogspot.com/