PrintNovember 14, 2009
Bill Clinton in Kosovo
Inevitably, some extraordinary security measures were taken in Kosovo's capital in connection with William Jefferson Clinton's recent visit. The former president of the United States undertook a long journey to the middle of the Balkans in order to take a look at his own figure standing twelve feet above the rest of humanity.There could be little doubt that those extraordinary measures added additional tension in the life of the current and former residents of the area. Let's clear up a possible confusion: many of the current Albanian residents of Pristina live in the houses of the former Serbian owners who were forced to leave, very often at gunpoint. My thoughts went back two weeks before the former president's visit to Kosovo, when I had to spend some rather uncomfortable hours in the company of a small group of former residents of Pristina. On a cold morning that had the Serbian city of Prokuplje in its wet and foggy embrace, a friend of mine and I joined a small group of...(Read Full Article)
