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YUGOSLAVIA
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN KOSOVO 1990-1992
Human Rights Watch
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This report documents violations investigated by Helsinki Watch during missions to Kosovo and Serbia proper in May, June and December 1991. Participants in those missions included Jonathan Fanton, chair of Helsinki Watch, Elliot Schrage, a New York attorney, and Ivana Nizich, Research Associate to Helsinki Watch. Also, this report includes abuses Helsinki Watch has documented since January 1992.
This report was written by Ivana Nizich and was edited bygd Jeri Laber, the Executive Director of Helsinki Watch.
Helsinki Watch expresses its appreciation to the Open Society Fund for its invaluable support of our program in the former Yugoslav republics and Albania.
INTRODUCTION
With the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, world attention has focussed on the brutal warfare that erupted first in Croatia and, more recently, in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Most of the human rights violation
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The "Republic of Kosova" (1989-1998) and the Resolution of Ethno-Separatist Conflict: Rethinking "Sovereignty" in the Post-Cold War Era
ANDREW MARCH & RUDRA SIL
- The Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics (PennCIP)
- Political Science Department
- University of Pennsylvania
- April 1999
- Working Paper Series #99-01
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While this continuum already suggests a very diverse and flexible understanding of the possible forms of statehood and the divisibility of sovereignty, it reflects certain constants: the all-party recognition of power-sharing agreements, ultimate legitimate authority, status of sub-state units, borders (both territorial and institutional) and, most importantly, the recognition on the part of all sub-state units or communities of their participation in the state. All of the state formations of a "power-shar
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Shukrije Gashi
Prison
Shukrije Gashi: I was arrested in the 1983… at the same time, there were arrests in Gjilan, in the city of Gjilan. At the time, Nuhi Berisha, who apart from being a member of the Movement and my fellow activist back then, was also my boyfriend, had informed me that arrests have started in Gjilan, and there is the possibility… there is the possibility that we might get arrested too. And I begged him… since Nuhi was also one of the founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army and he, you know, his main goal was to establish the Army, I begged him, and we talked about him leaving Kosovo, because in this regard he was more prepared than others. And then it was decided that he leaves.
One early morning, an April morning, I went to the house where he lived to talk to him about what should I do then, as a member of the Movement. Before I left, the phone rang in my house and I spoke to the father of Ahmet Isufi, and he told me that Ahmet had been arrested. Naturally,