Wheres the Serbian point-of-view?
Rating: 4 (out of 5) Summary: Balanced and informative Comments: This book analyzes the gradual rise in ethnic tensions in Kosovo, a region of the former Yugoslavia ruled by Serbia however populated primarily by Albanians, in the years between the death of Tito and the collapse of Yugoslavia. The focus is rather narrow. The author makes no attempts to tell the full story of the Serbian-Albanian conflict over Kosovo, which has roots in the Middle Ages, or to discuss the recent developments since the 1999 war. What she does do, and do quite well, is describe in detail the conflicts of the period she does discuss, and the way in which Serbs and Albanians saw the same events in narratives so entirely opposed that even discussing their differences, much less resolving them, was extraordinarily diificult. In addition to her own analysis, Mertus Comes with extensive sections where both Serbs and Albanians discuss these events in their own words. The period in question doesn’t lack for events
