Kosovo: Can You Imagine?

[mahnmut]

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Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is a documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Boris Malagurski, about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century.

Most of the Kosovo Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the Albanians who make up the majority of Kosovo. Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days to halt a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo. In the years following the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed. Their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed.

Kosovo for the Serbs is what Jerusalem is for the Jewish people. It is the cradle of their statehood, culture and religion. Most of the important Serbian Christian Orthodox monasteries are in Kosovo. Today, Serbs still have a deep spiritual and traditional connection to Kosovo, a land which is being cleansed of everything Serbian.

Most of the Kosovo Serbs are internally displaced, some of them live in small container camps, in ghettos, all this in the heart of Europe in the 21st century. We follow the stories of several Serbs who have fell victim to a nationalist and irredentist ideology that has a goal of creating a pure Albanian state of Kosova (Kosovo in Albanian). Serbs in Kosovo have no basic human rights. You will be shocked to learn which atrocities they have to face each day.

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of you while I was watching this. "I wonder what would Pani say about this?"

:-)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

What happened? :-O

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Those fuck'n Balkan subversive elements!

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Of course he just presents one side of the issue. Like most other journalists.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Fair point, but that still doesn't make the facts he's showing any less real.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

He could have at least mentioned the Serbian atrocities in Kosovo.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

It's a lapse that has been rectified by many others at great length. I'm guessing the author wanted to show that there's another side to the issue, as opposed to riding the same bandwagon everyone else seems to be riding.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

He is just like any other journalist, Pilger or Moore or anybody else. They pick up a narrative and then develop it, as per their pre-conceived premises.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

That's what journalism has become, yes. And yet, the personality of the author of a documentary constitutes only a fraction of the important things about said documentary that ought to be discussed. Ultimately, what he's reporting is fact. The interpretation is where divergence begins.