Postcard from Peje

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Running Time: 15:30 mins.
In the summer of 2000, just over one year after Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo, a group of Albanian teenagers from the Kosovarian city of Peje came together to create a video postcard of their experiences during and after the war.
©2001 , Balkan Sunflowers / sight sea productions / WITNESS .

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This is not true

Albanians were brought from Asia to Serbia's province Kosovo and Metohija (this is the full name and they cutted out Metohija beacuse it means 'property of the
Serbian Orthodox Church) by Turks in 16th century to help them fight against Serbs. After the WWII about half of Albanians in Kosovo came from poor neighbooring country, Albania. Serbia arrange the schools, from premiere, high school to university in their language which is something that almost any ethic minority ever had in any country, including jobs and everything else like free appartments (everyone could have one in those socialistic time). They even tolerate not to pay elecricity and phone bills. Todays Kosovo is Serbian province where Albanians got the ethic majority by illigal entries from Albania, making troubles to local Serbs, killing them, raping, stealing and when they wanted to eventaully declare the independence, they arrange the rise with weapons, starting to fire at police and to kill them. After police and military intervention, NATO had bomb Serbia and establish puppet government both in Serbia and in so-called Kosovo. USA now has the largest military base (Bondsteel) in Europe and it's located in Kosovo. Now, poverty is high in Kosovo, NATO doesn't care, of course and NATO is using Kosovo as storage for drugs produced in Afghanistan under NATO supervision. After NATO came to Afghanistan, drug production is 44 times bigger then before.



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