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counting the cost on al-jazeera. to directrix this move goalkeeper places the cost of his fighting to succeed from neighboring serbia in two thousand and eight possible declared its independence and this year's celebration to extend the right of those serbia still kind of sovereignty and relations to strained amid complex claims time atrocities and ancient greeks and then a mysterious death toxic cocktail and of the shape we went to investigate.
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twenty years ago the small balkan state of kosovo was in the grip of a bitter war. on one side it's predominantly ethnic albanian population which wanted to break away from the serb dominated you can slow via on the other course of age so the minority which opposed familiar. the fighting and the came to an end after native intervened on the side of the separatists in two thousand and eight because of a declared independence and is nigh recognized by most countries to be on its look free school but that many signs the skulls of war have yet to hear. neighboring serbia still claim sovereignty and exercises control of a some enclaves including northern attributes of kosovo's most troubled city where
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earlier this year and just one month before cause of a celebrated its tenth birthday there was shocking news. that had been a militant. the mustard on the go for also just saw it well this is a little more skillful it's a loss over the riches of the overlay for lots of voters all of the bills that was blown away well it's not. all of the event of it was much of it's his most famous a politician with all that no sex in their homes here he was that the way it was david he did best as it was and that was the dorismond his death sensual quaids through the city segregated on ethnic lines with an albanian muslim majority and a serbian orthodox christian minority this was a very tragic abuse and. never
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a. day off in years and everybody was shocked not expected. they're not without controversy the advantage which was widely admired for advocating dialogue between the two communities there were thousands of people in the streets following the call from out of the city towards belgrade i think that shows the respect that the man was held in and he was not corrupt because for very many politicians here and call school that allegation comes very easily he was not corrupt he was dedicated. he was decent. by this. event a bitch left behind a wife and seven year old son. in the. only way before i was for him all the better for me our bond theme for the
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response you are only getting a meal or a good deal of your family. will be our year the patron were up on the other end there never want them going on talk of them we don't think we were riding a come up off a me or pasta on the. looks wrong so on the question that i put all of it over their machine your very best besmirched name what show enabling is my trip to. europe the evil of the world we are many here see event of beaches unsolved murder as a parable for the complex old lines running through kosovo and its struggles with its wartime legacy. we've come to find out why who might be responsible for his death and want to say it might have on this young nation's future.
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mitra vits is river divides the city's two communities to the size of the albanian two headed eagle predominates to the north only serb flags are to be seen. the new bridge between the two sides was meant as a symbol of reconciliation but as with much here it may be a full on gesture. the serbs are building a wall on their side of the river to further demarcate territory. all of a fan of each had been one of the most significant political figures in northern cost of for nearly two decades championing the cause of the minorities while stressing the importance of remaining poles of course of a role than rejoining serbia and it certainly is in the south of you know that we are very very bad not bad. and we try to give the facts also in the same. way that
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most know we get out of it or that we are against the. advocated very strongly for the serbian community in kosovo but all the while open for dialogue with the cross will be a new political leaders as well as murder is a tremendous loss. but evanovich is inclusive approach to cause of an albanian was not universally popular. in the months running up to his death when he was standing for office in north mature he and his family were the victims of sustained attacks his call was torched and there were threatening phone calls. we are lost but then we are there in the bottom to know all going to die yet you devote some money and all the good i'm glad to the civil disobedience in order to do much. mr glover also news value added it of course is completely released and you guys do it on. all two going on. and you can hear mislay
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my neck. out there quicker than i thought of off yeah. it was the horn with. the other thing i want to keep i thought on the phone then you got from below. undeterred the valley bitch was determined to find out who was behind the violence i don't somewhere else like was an argument as richard why above average or store. you know what it was we share such of it that it is that i didn't hear this i'm gonna start or a nationally. gone as a result shows up all we get is that we're not in a garage on their genius. inevitably the fun of each is murder heightened tension between kosovo and serbia it's also gave politicians an opportunity. four days after his death serbian
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president alexander the church made a rare for a over the border to mentor of itself to pay his respects evanovich is outspoken criticism of the serbian government's approach to kosovo had belgrade not be church sorts to mend fences. you don't. want to sort of you know some of those early mute residual doubt this whatsoever that i mean it's so true. that you know trinity. but at a press conference local serbs made it clear where their priorities lay their eggs of almost the sea but physically this is the future looks to you the. least was it was it was it was a. new church tried his best to calm the situation so. close. to. the use of. the
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ceiling in. egypt. it was sought it was. there an. event of bitches death also reignited debate over another and joran kosovan problem the difficulty of dealing with repeated other gay sions from both sides about all time atrocities. indeed ivanovitch himself was tainted by such claims in two thousand and sixteen he was convicted of inciting a paramilitary group which killed albanians or you very hard it's such a test years in prison. but even among those with no axe to grind the case raised. i was surprised that he was in the reserves in the
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first place. my understanding is that you have a dence was not particularly strong. circumstantial i was absolutely a shock. the found out via the trial record that everyone who are now in the faith of. divine a bitch served eighteen months in prison before the conviction was cost and a retrial order. at the time of his death he was expecting to be fully exonerated but his supporters were outraged believing the case had been politically motivated. they are books will not yet in the us no need to be or the soul of it is of the g.o.p. it for some in the maze he had no control russell got it just about the field for you isn't given the speed it was traced to work the british book either like. most others believe the case against event of each did have merit there are dozens of
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holding schools say that they have seen them being part of the actual committed crimes so i'm not sure that's what. the truth may never be known but it does bear questions is it possible that i have to want to times to keep the event of age out of public life that failed that is murder was the next step. was it also an attempt to further inflame hatred. almost everything in this troubled country is still framed in memories of the war. because of the albanians pointed to the storks statistics of the thirteen thousand who perished eleven thousand were ethnic albanians. outside the parliaments of both capitals belgrade and pristina permanent displays keep alive the memory of the sixteen hundred still missing. at the village of true
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shimoda hundreds were massacred. serbs colored people bills story to the devival. women and children there was who were from fifteen and elder. to them first taking money from them. started beating and killing and burning that we have one hundred forty eight widows in the religion. but serbs point out that over two thousand of them perished in the war and after it some two hundred thousand before to flee cos of. they say religious communities have been told it had too. many serbs kosovo was known as serb use jerusalem the most important holy sites of the serbian orthodox
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church can be find within its borders in the form of magnificent medieval monasteries monastery suffered for armed attacks by a mortar grenades and r.p.g. attack and then of course be had also problems with graffiti with isis signed in two thousand and sixteen for armed possible pain ians were arrested in front of the monastery they had kalashnikovs and two of them proved to be connected with isis organizing neva definitely not interest to tests. against this background of claim and counterclaim the killing of a leading figure from one side or another takes on huge symbolic significance which may have been the reason behind event of each his day it was inevitable that that's after the murder some politicians in serbia accused of paintings of being
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responsible the site yet the product would just be nice for the last person to go here but equal to this spot did not you know that sort of brought that on the side that only me but i don't think it. will be if the books of hopefully it turned out any more with some other one is for the never to be cynical of. the situation has been compounded by the inability of unix to a user rule of law mission to push through war crime cases you know lex was spending here almost one million euros per day when they arrived there were huge expectations and hopes that now we're going to get european justice for justice is not something that you imports. a case in point is yet another set of unresolved allegations about wartime atrocities this time involving cars have been president. george the war president thought he was a commander in the can they the cost of an liberation army which led the fight by
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ethnic albanians for independence from yugoslavia in two thousand and ten council of europe special russia to dick moti produced a damning report implicating the k.l.a. and phone in gruesome of a geisha ins involving the harvesting of body parts was a void deck exact in mark. leave my dog i know your lizard gun it down where you have it let. alone tissue of the pets sudden keep it young a peaceful. rigorously denied the charges. if you're done you got cause out if i vas up that big market took up there in that email they bust at the thought of it to me there's truth in thought it was thought . various attempts to bring cases against former k.l.a. commanders to find
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a doctor witnesses have been murdered or killed in three credit accidents will simply disappear yet the allegations have never gone away. in two thousand and seventeen there was expectation that a special court in the hague was obliged to indict senior members of the government . then suppose ruling party made in of course of attempts to repeal the law underpinning the court's jurisdiction. it's no surprise that there's growing cynicism about who exactly is dictating events. isn't really very cool and makes it go in the sense to change the war record because the government had no much for all because this was not a few self lol. initiated by government or presented to the parliament by government it was. in the setting of its own of m.p.'s the actual president of
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course always being mentioned in the market report and all his opposition is due to his personal interests. somewhat from politics they are putting pressure on prosecutors and judges not to bring these cases justice not to deal with skills. meanwhile the victims of war crimes in kosovo. on both sides on the left in legal limbo people like fatah rooty a former schoolteacher and political activist who was shot seventeen years ago at his small village in central coast of oregon of a daughter your children under still but it was certainly a pretty full circle model back and forth that it's here. welcome as president the author spitz charged. with say many alleged political crimes under
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a zoloft finding those responsible for the murder of all of the fun of each will never be an easy time. but in his last interview the valid which did point a finger of suspicion in one rather unexpected direction. all over the balustrade the statement that he doesn't feel threatened it's he feels right spite starts by his people. before he died advantaged told the press. people here are not afraid of albanians they're afraid of serbs the local strongmen and the criminals we had over fifty cases of torched call's throwing of hand grenades and unexplained killings the perpetrators have links to the security structures. there is organized crime throughout the territory of course or and for many years the north has been a kind of lawless area and of course just leads to
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a situation where crime flourishes and where money is made and quite big money. so could all of ivana bitch have upset kosovo's criminal underworld war was the underworld from today interacting on someone's behalf. according to the course of and press one name in particular has attracted attention from the authorities that of milan rather your church. acquitted in two thousand and sixteen of organized crime charges rather your church now conducts operations from grace his exclusive restaurant in the serbian north of the time while locals told was he is seen as a mafia style ball. in his last interview ivana pitch called roger your church a criminal and was concerned that in late two thousand and seventeen serbian president nixon the church had singled out right to your church for praise stating
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that he was safeguarding course of. the assassination was done so professional it was not done by an angry and i think it was organized. by the state of sir. in two thousand and seventeen ivanna beach to the management of it's against the locals list candidate served list is an offshoot of president his party and his run from belgrade. drop it or leave it at the vinyl beach at the second other naturally. joining the campaign says a list repeatedly branded event of each a traitor warm t.v. and complained he cared more about his cause than say. and accused him of working for kosovo albanians you would be we really wanted the police to realise castro not .
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thanks them for not only for gas certainly certainly made to look down on hugo what do you mean when you go out and i die. you sort of see him that. last is only that he was only just last abut is that a piece of school not a down day only one of the keys dates that he no longer losses by. the belgrade serbian politicians accuse the cause of and spreading fake news about their country's involvement in the killing. of someone told. to not only did not see all of it or you don't know each other very sternly of the sawdust premier puzzle be honest today was critique of the old today. that bailed us northfield goldwater most as all beasts or leave it out even though just will fall on the bus . with more questions than answers the task of
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solving in front of which is murder ultimately lies in the hands of the largely serb influenced more than mere trip it's a police an institution he frequently criticized. we have many questions about the not just the killing but also the police response to police officers where put into custody because of their behavior here at the scene of the of the crime there are strange things ivana bates was gunned down outside his office in a street brimming with c.c.t.v. cameras if there's no malice what was really nashik i made it enough to compute the national id you know one saml beast what that would that my day like i'm better than i was it will be mommy doesn't really adding i still value more boyish than a nice one does molly than me really we must get new parts of the universe to gauge and help us in kosovo but it's interest rate it has evolved with serbia and
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belgrade. so we was all went on for a change of informations. however we haven't received a lot of on the other side. to date there have been no arrests despite rumors there are no officially named suspects and crucial evidence appears to have been compromised doubts remain as to whether this murder will ever be solved. but what is clear is that it's given the already talk sick mix of relations between kosovo and serbia another stir. in february two thousand and eighteen because of a celebrated its tenth anniversary of the unsolved murder of a fan of h.
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hanging eva proceedings and relations with its old enemy at the latest and for yes . president thought she was keen to show his security forces see president of the biggest consumers union those insisted it was always the ability to sleep at the last summer's food service leaned. over the border president to church made a similar commitment to military exercises. which are called what are you but it's all ok when you're me chris from i was over there quick. sabella so you know i was your boy the block over the question of the social work seriously what a swell sort of meet that it may be some time yet before all of a ivanovitch is dreams for dialogue and reconciliation are ever realized. i am. a cake and eat eat
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