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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 of 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 they 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 for preschool 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
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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 moved to. the mustard out of there before also it also it was this it would look more skillfully telesur the riches of the overlay of the losses of what is on the list of possible anyway well it's not. all of the event of h. was much of it's his most famous a politician with with arianna sets in their homes here he said the way it was david that best exit was and 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 expect. they're not without controversy divided 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. and the. only other one i was for him all the better for me our bond theme is for
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the response you are only getting a meal or a good deal of your family. will be are you the patron were upon me then there. are what i'm going on talk of i mean you. were riding a come up off a meal pasta one of the. lacrosse on the couch and then i put all of it over there not machine your very best besmirched name but show nobody's matric. the evil were many here see event of beaches unsolved murder as a parable for the complex old lines running through kosovo and it struggles with its wartime legacy. we've come to find out why who might be responsible for his death and what a sect 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 south the albanian two headed eagle predominates to the north only served 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 moon 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 the role of the van rejoining serbia and it certainly is in the south of you know it we are very very bad not bad. and we try to give the facts also in the same. way that most know we
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get to see that we are against the place he advocated very strongly for the serbian community in kosovo but all the while all for a dialogue with the cos for binion's political leaders as well his 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 with the victims of sustained attacks his car was torched and there were threatening phone calls. to be medically i must call them yeah they're in the bottom to know all going to die yet you devote some money and all the thing i'm glad to do this is all the solace in the pretty much. mr glover also value added it of course was completely released and you guys do it on. all two going on. and you can hear
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mislay my neck. out there quicker than i thought of. yet. it was the horn the weather. the other thing i want to keep i thought on the phone when you open your phone call from below. undeterred valley beach was determined to find out who was behind the violence i don't somewhere else like was an argument as richard why bob. or store. died 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 week that it's like we're not in a garage on the 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 change made a rare foreign over the border to mentor votes to pay his respects evanovich is outspoken criticism of the serbian government's approach to kosovo had belgrade nobby 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 sort. but at a press conference local serbs made it clear where their priorities lay their eggs of almost the same physically the few bucks to get the. police was it was the. new church tried his best to calm the situation so. close.
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to. the use. of you when. you. the last saw teacher 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 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 first place. my
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understanding is that you have written scores not particularly strong. circumstantial i wore absolutely a shock. the found out via the trial record that everyone who are now on the fate of. divided 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 well 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 that there were more there is a gap in the speech that was traced to what the british book either like. most others believe the case against event if it did have merit there are dozens of old
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banks will say that they have seen him being part of the actual committed crimes so i'm not sure if he was. the truth may never be known but it does beg questions is it possible that i have to want to times to keep the event of age out of public life that failed that his 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 an albanian pointed to the stork 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 and hills story to the devival. women and children the ones 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 corso there is noone is used 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 a neighbor definitely not here a stewardess pts. 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 if it was inevitable that that's after the murder some politicians in serbia accused albanians of being
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responsible for the site yet the product would just be nice for the last person to go here but equal to this spot did not get that sort of brought that on the side that only me but i don't think it will be if the looks 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 use rule of law mission to push through war crime cases your next war spending here almost one million euros per day when they arrived there were huge expectations and hopes 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 are the cause of an liberation army which led the fight
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by ethnic albanians for independence from yugoslavia in two thousand and ten council of europe special rucka to dick morsi 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 eking exact and mom. will it leave my dog i know your lizard gun it down where you have it let. alone tissue of the past sudden keep a yellow. reka recently denied the charges here if you're the one you got cause up at five dollars 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 thoughtless. 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 and 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 about to indict senior members of the government. then suppose ruling party made in a force 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. is it really very cool and makes it go in the sense to change the war or course the government had no more stroll 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 to cloud 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 your daughter got the story. welcome as president the other spits charged. with say many alleged political crimes under
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a zoloft finding those responsible for the murder of all of the vine of h. 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. over the balustrade the statement that he doesn't feel threatened if you write 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 of upsets kosovo's criminal underworld war was the underworld prompted interacting on someone's behalf. according to the course of an 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 event of its called roger your church a criminal and was concerned that in late two thousand and seventeen serbian president nixon the view church had singled out roddy
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a church for praise stating that he was safeguarding. yes nation was done for professional it was not done by an angry and i think it was organized. called block. by the state of. in two thousand and seventeen ivanna beach to the mary mitchell votes against the local surplused candidate serb list is an offshoot of president his party and his run from belgrade back of your job or you better give our little beach at the second other naturally . joining the campaign says the list repeatedly branded event of which a traitor warm t.v. and complained he cared more about his cold than say. and accused him of working for kosovo albanians knew you would be we really wanted the police to realize castro not only went along with our place i respect others here or not.
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all novelists or gas certainly certainly make to look down on what you when you go out and i die. you sort of see him that. last is all evil you only just last about is that a piece of school now don't they only one of the keys they know not the aussies. that belgrade serbian politicians the queues the cause of and spreading fake news about their country's involvement in the killing. of someone told. to not put it on nearly did not see all of it or you can only charge the priest in a bottle so i just printed puzzle rearmost today was pretty cut they all did it dovetailed us north you old girl almost as obese or leave it or even know just told on a person. with more questions than answers the task
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of solving in front of which is murder ultimately lies in the hands of the largely influenced no. i'm a 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 in front of each was gunned down outside his office in the street brimming with c.c.t.v. cameras if there's no malice what was really nashik on national computer the national id and that one sam will be struck down by the neck i'm better than it will be in not we have a little yet you know still value more boyish than a nice one does volley than me but if we must get. impartial some university gratian happens in kosovo but it's interesting that serbia.
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i saw he was open told for a series of informations. however that we haven't received a lot off from 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. the unsolved murder of a fan of it hanging eva proceedings and relations with its old enemy at that level
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and for yes. president thought she was keen to show his security forces to brazil the biggest consumers union in those insisted it was always the villain who's the leader of the not some astute observers looking. over the border president view chits made a similar commitment at a military exercise. which are what are you but it's all ok when you meet all chris formalism liquid. sabella so you have no knowledge you would block the question of the social source what will swell sort of meet it it may be some time yet before all of a ivanovich is dreams for dialogue and reconciliation are ever realized. it
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