Investigation Proyect "El Cambio de Paradigmas historiográficos" (PGIDT99PXI40101B)

Director Carlos Barros

New Address

Instituto de Estudios Galegos "Padre Sarmiento" (CSIC)
San Roque 2
15704 Santiago de Compostela (España)

Semina "La Historia después del 89 Kosovo"

Moderates Tomas Várnagy (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

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The members of the list that wish it can make questions or take part on the subject of the seminary, that they will be answered or commented by el/la colleague after the actual seminary.

The subject of Kosovo is a conflict that does not have to be solved easily. The main problem of this zone is not by ethnic questions - as it has been repeated in diverse mainly political occasions but.

In order to include/understand the history of this Yugoslav province it is necessary to overcome us to a distant past in which religious and cultural factors take part related to the catholic and orthodox Christianity, the Ottoman empire, the Islam, the Slavic ethnic groups and Albanian.

Recent history but demonstrated that the conformation of a known country as Yugoslavia could not surpass a series of political questions, economic, cultural and religious. In spite of the attempt of Tito and the Yugoslav Communist Party to surpass the problem of the nationalisms it was not possible to obtain the wished unit.

The wars that untie from the secession of Slovenia in 1991, basically by their defense of the human rights of the Albanians kosovares, took to one exhacerbacion nationalistic, as much on the part of Serbs as of Croatians, whose results widely are known.

The Serbian government, through Slobodan Milosevic, mainly begins a series of repressive measures in the province (before independent) of Kosovo, inhabited by the Albanian ethnic group of Muslim religion. The Serbs consider that Kosovo is the cradle and core of its nationality.

The countries of NATO decide to take part in Yugoslavia for "protecting the Albanian human rights" of kosovares and during 74 days they bomb systematically to Yugoslavia. Illegal a foreign intervention in internal problems of a country obtains finally that the troops of Ejercito Yugoslav Nacional retire of Kosovo and NATO implants an international protectorate with but of 60,000 troops of occupation.