Raving Bitch

Here are a number of great responses that I found on the BBC Website.

As a British citizen, I am deeply ashamed at the role that Britain has played in supporting and endorsing Albanian ethnic cleansing and effective annexation of Serbian sovereign territory. The Albanian flag is being flown all over Kosovo : this is an ugly victory for demographic warfare. At home, in the UK, the same government is already acquiescing in the preparation of of a similar disaster in our own country. Our politicians simply lack guts.

SEQ, London

Hypocrisy par excellence!

What kind of madness has overtaken the EU & USA? Is support for Kosovo's independence based on genuine facts or just a way to snub Serbia & Russia? I suspect it's the latter. How many years later is the boomerang going to hit the EU & Kosovars?

By the same token when will:

Northern Ireland, Basques, Krajina, Srpska, Bosnian Serbs, Kurds, Tibet, Taiwan, Tamils in Sri Lanka,.. be independent?

Mark my words! This utter stupidity will come back & haunt everyone!

[MaxMaxmilianMaximusI], Indian Caesar in, Singapore

This is a sad little joke....
By all accounts, if say, 400,000 of us Brits decided to move to Normandy in Northern France, maybe we could then declare Normandy independent from France and form our own little British state-let.
Don't think the French or EU would be too supportive somehow.
All very unfair to the Serbs.

Eoin McGreeghan, Derry, NI

Kosovo "country"is just another great "product" of Western hypocrisy.Historically Kosovo has been the cultural heart of Serbia and it should belong to Serbia.

[AisteM], Paris, France

Its not right that Albanians can settle in another country and then after a few hundred years claim it as their own. Its like the Poles coming here to the UK and settling in Kent. In 2200 they then vote to breakaway.

Within 10 years Kosovo will form part of Albania and soon after the Albanian minority in FYR of Macedonia will demand unification. All this forms the Greater Albania idea that even includes demanding territory from Greece: There are over 500k Albanians in Greece. Unacceptable!!

Mario, Cheshunt

All this will do is destabilise Europe. What legal justification will be given to stop the Basque region declaring independence or any other region for that matter. How long before the Bosnian Serbs declare independence or the Flemish Belgiums. There are an awful lot of regions that could declare independence, Kosovo will be the trigger.

Stephen Hollinshead, St.Ives

What EU & US are thinking is beyond me. Creating an artificial muslim country in the center of Europe?? Remember the problems that Spain and Russia had with basque and chechen regions. Kosovo was once a haven for Albanian terrorists, but who can say it wouldn't be again.
Declaring Kosovo independent will also create a dangerous precedent. Russia already declared that it will mean that Abkhazia and South Ossetia can become independent. What is next Northern Ireland, Kurdistan?

Darryl G, San Diego, United States

Thank God for intelligent people everywhere who realize how wrong and illegal this whole thing is. Thank you for publishing your comments and I hope you don't mind that I have reproduced them here.

Labels: EU, Kosovo, Kosovo Independence, US