Kosovo as ethnic ghetto?

Slovakian lawyer and political scientist Daniel Šmihula disagrees with the Kosovo-Albanians who say they would not have enough minority rights in a Serbian association of states. Rather, Šmihula warns, independence would lead to the creation of an ethnic ghetto: "Aren't we just realizing, ex post facto, Milosevic's vision of an ethnically clean Kosovo – but this time an Albanian Kosovo instead of a Serbian one?... In 1999, Slovakia supported the military deployment against Yugoslavia as a humanitarian intervention, in order to prevent ethnic cleansing. It was not intended to promote Kosovan separatism and a separation of Kosovo from Serbia. So Slovakia is not thrilled with the idea of Kosovan independence, just as it looks skeptically at all unilateral moves."

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