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counting the cost on al-jazeera. to director this move goalkeeper places the cost of his fighting to succeed from laboring serbia in two thousand and eight possible declared its independence and this year's celebration to extend birthplace of those serbia still kind of sovereignty and relations are still strained amid complex claims of time atrocities and ancient greeks and then a mysterious death toxic cocktail and of the show 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 to. 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 their own 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 on the go for also taught so it was this it would look more skilful it's also it which is a double a for lots of photos on and off the list of possible only with a well it's not. all of the event of each was much of it's his most famous a politician was with sally and such and their homes here he said the way it was david it did best as it was and was that glorious but his death sensual quaids through a city segregated on ethnic lines with an albanian muslim majority and a serbian orthodox christian minority this was a great article use and. never
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a. day off in years and everybody was shocked not expect. 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 possible 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 for the
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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 about we don't think we were riding a come up off a meal pasta one of the. looks wrong so on the question then i put all of it over there not much in your very best besmirched name but show nobody's matric to. the evil the we were 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 day and what a say it might have on this young nation's future.
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mitchell bits is river divides the city's two communities to the size of 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 on gesture. the serbs are building a wall on their side of the river to further demarcate territory. all of a valid beach had been one of the most significant political figures in northern coast 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 said. and it certainly has been the start of you know that we are very very bad not bad. and we try to give the sex also in the form if we separate that
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was not we going to see to that if we are against the place he advocated very strongly for the serbian community in kosovo but all the while open for a dialogue with the cos or beanie and 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 with the victims of sustained attacks his car was torched and there were threatening phone calls. was let me out there in the bottom to know all going to die yeah sure there was someone in the other thing i'm glad this is all this early in the day to do much. less that led to that also the news value added of course was completely released and you guys do it on
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a. major theme or two going on. and you can hear mislay my neck. out there quicker than i thought of off yeah. it was the horn the weather. the other thing i would have thought on the phone when you found out from below. undeterred valley beach was determined to find out who was behind the violence i don't somewhere dislike was an argument why bother with it or store jem'hadar you know what it was we share such a dirty. story this i'm gonna start or a national. shows over all we need to this that we're not in a garage on their genius. inevitably ivanovich is murder heightened tension between kosovo and serbia it's also gave politicians an opportunity. four days after his death serbian president
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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 angered belgrade nobby church sorts to mend fences. you don't. want to sort of you know some of those early mute visits he will go to so it's over the time you saw. it you know trinity sort. but at a press conference local serbs made it clear where their priorities lay this cancer almost to the sea but physically the few bucks to get the food at least this was it was it was the. church tried his best to calm the situation so. close.
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to. the use of. the ceiling in. egypt. it was the last such it was the. 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 on your credit card sat 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 the evidence was not particularly strong and circumstantial i was absolutely a shock to the found out. of the trial record. now and. divided which 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 the only t.v. 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 floor there is a gap in the speech that was traced to what the bully gets book either like. most others
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believe the case against event of each did have merit there are dozens of all banks who say that they have seen him being part of the actual committed crimes so i'm not sure that's what. the truth may never be known but it does beg questions is it possible that i have to want to times to keep event a bitch out of public life it's 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 an albanian 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 to show
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hundreds of a massacre it. serves people builds stories to divide them from women and children and the ones who are from fifteen and held. to them first taking money from them and then started beating and killing them and burning that we have one hundred forty eight weirdos in the religious. but serbs point tied to the deva two thousand of them perished in the war. and after it some two hundred thousand before to flee course of. they say religious communities have been told it had too. many serbs kosovo is 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 mcniff isn't medieval monasteries monastery suffered a four armed attacks by a mortar grenades and r.p.g. attack and then of course be had also problems with a graffiti with isis a sign in two thousand and sixteen for armed possible brain ians were arrested in front of the monastery they had kalashnikovs and two of them proved to be connected with isis organize a neighbor definitely not interest to distance. 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 the tough to the minute some politicians in serbia accused of being aeons of being
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responsible the side yet the product would just be nice to look at also possibly talking but equal to this court did not get that sort of brought that on the side lost on me but i don't think it. will brutal beast it will effect looks awful only it turned out only what was somewhat of one is for you what does the never to be cynical of. the situation has been compounded by the inability of ulick's the e.u.'s rule of law mission to push through war crime cases you lex were spending here almost one million euros per day when they arrived there were huge expectations and hope. now we're going to get european justice but 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 she was a commander in the kalay the cause 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 marty produced a damning report implicating the k.l.a. info in gruesome of a geisha ins involving the harvesting of body parts was a void seeking exact and mark. will it leave my dog i know your lizard gun it down where you have it lit. cosper on tissue of the past sudden keep it yellow. for reka recently denied the charges. if you're done 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 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 tree 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 the times 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 or course 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 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 understood when it was when you could have all said come out all the junk fort that it's here. at the store. 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. over the balustrade the statement that he doesn't feel threatened if you will at spite starts by his people. before he died the fun of each 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 well locals told us 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. by the state of. in two thousand and seventeen ivanna beach to mary mitchell votes against a local so the list candidate served list is an offshoot of president his party and his run from belgrade back of your job or you go to the vinyl beach at the second of the naturally skinny trophy to join the campaign soup list repeatedly branded event of which a traitor warm t.v. and complained he cared more about his call than say. and accused him of working for kosovo albanians you would if we really wanted the police to realize castro not
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only went along with our place i respect others here or. think that all novelists are grass fed on the trolley certainly make them look down on what you have and when you go out and i die. you sort of see him that is that. last is all anyone to me just last about is that a piece of school now don't they only one of the keys they know bit nauseous. that belgrade serbian politicians accuse the cos of and of 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 full sawdust premier puzzle rearmost today was pretty cut they all get bailed us north you old girl almost as old beast or leave it or even know just well soltani 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 movie. the mitra fits 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 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 rallies what was really nashik i made it enough to compute the national id you know one saml beast that would that by day like i'm better than i was it will be in monte devon added me adding i still value more boyish than a nice one does molly than me but if we must get. impartial see investigation
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happens in kosovo but this interview with serbia in belgrade. so we was all went on for a change of informations. however 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 kosovo celebrated its tenth anniversary. the unsolved murder advantage hanging eva proceedings and relations with its old enemy
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at the latest and for years. president thought. he was keen to show his security forces zebras in the movie business owners in those insisted it was. mostly the. there's the being. over the border president to church made a similar commitment to military exercises. which are called what are you there when you made this film i was a very queer. about those who have no knowledge you avoid the book only what i question the social work so well you will sort it it may be some time yet before all of a valley bitches dreams for dialogue and reconciliation are ever realized. struggling
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