Kosovo

Abraham's questioning of God has led to one of the most age-old question facing humankind: when are the loss of innocents justified by the saving of others? To elaborate on the Biblical reference, Abraham repeatedly asks God how many people he’ll sacrifice in order to get rid of the bad ones. “If I find fifty good people in Sodom, I will save the city to keep them from being killed. Abraham answered “I am nothing more than the dust on the Earth. Please forgive me Lord, for daring to speak to…

Within the Krasniqi family many resources and sources of information were not implemented. If some of this knowledge or resources would have been implemented the outcome for this family would be drastically different. One resource that was not implemented by Child Protective services was familial placement. Kathy Krasniqi the mother or Tim and Lima Krasniqi actually had a brother in New York who had expressed an interest in adopting Tim and Lima (the dallas article). When the caseworker was…

involved in atrocities. For example, in 1999, Kosovo National Army killed hundreds of Serbians and engaged in a number of human right violations. Another example is Iraq where so called liberation of people operation has caused a great deal of suffering. Another cost of humanitarian intervention is the inevitable loss of human life. Use of military force results in unintended collateral damage. NATO has been accused of war crimes because of air strikes in Kosovo which killed more than 500…

Serbians celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo. The speech was seen to improve his authority in Serbia, while also intimidating the ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo. Following the speech, Kosovo Albanians began to respond with non-violent demonstrations and began to create “parallel structure”, organization of education, medical, and other government organizations. These were created as an attempt to further achieve independence for Kosovo. In September 1992, they declared…

Article 65 of Statute of International Court of Justice, « International law can only provide judicial review but not consultation when the case is compelling. » The legality of Kosovo Independence is still debatable today. Even though admitted the independence by International Court of Justice, the identity of authors of Kosovo Declaration is flawed bacause of abstention of government representatives and a lack of representation of people’s will. Throughout this case, we could see that…

The Internet is used everyday by numerous people around the world, but few know the origin of the Internet. The Internet today has evolved from the original design of the ARPANET in the late 1960’s by the Department of Defense, which was created to share information from server to server, to the World Wide Web created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee which also shares information from server to server but allows the user to only use one program instead of switching programs to gain information from…

In an opinion from a human rights advisory panel that is part of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, the peacekeeping operation known as Unmik, found that the UN had failed to fulfil its obligation to protect the Romas who were forced into the camps after a war broke out in 1998 between Serbia and ethnic Albanian separatists who sought an independent Kosovo. Another example of systematic discrimination is currently happening in the Czech Republic. In a report from 2015,…

Vladimir Putin is the current President of the nation of Russia. Association between Russia and the Western part of the world are intensifying. March 14th of 2014, Russia annexed Crimea as part of its own national territory. As background, Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union. Once Ukraine became an independent nation, the region of Crimea became part of Ukraine. The Soviet Union was disbanded. As indicated in history “Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority, has long been a…

When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and…

resources and political corruption. Ethical and religious tensions are probably the biggest obstacle for the Yugoslavian republics. Kosovo for example is predominantly populated with Sunni Muslim Albanians while the other six countries are made up of mostly the Slavic population who like many speak similar languages and are orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics. Unlike Kosovo, which has significant coal and mineral deposits, the region is unfortunately lacking natural resources. Unemployment…