Whether you kill innocent protestors as was done on February 10, 2007 where Romanian UN blue barets shot and killed two peaceful protesters, Arben Xheladini and Mon Balai, and injured more than 80 others. Or if you are largely to blame for the rapid growth and propping up of the international trafficking of women and children, as ample evidence shows is the case with NATO troops stationed in Kosovo, not much more will be done other than the creation of yet another report by one of the main ‘watchdogs of human rights’. How can any justice be brought to a region that is flooded with internationals that get to decide how the show will be run with no accountability mechanisms in place? Flying in thousands of ‘experts’ who are going to get paid big money and who, for the most part, will have never been to Kosovo before, do not know the history, sensitivities and nuances, on an mission that is shady to begin with, is not a sensible solution. Kosovo is the poorest region in South East Europe. There are two economies operating-one that is floated by the internationals and their high salaries, and the second that the majority operate within, who are unemployed and struggling to meet the basics. After all the billions of dollars that have been ‘given’ to Kosovo, the basics have not been met for those that living there. Whether it be in the Serb enclaves, Roma settlements, or even in relatively prosperous Pristina there is no clean drinking water in the country, and there are still daily electrical outages.

Despite the tidy recommendations of HRW, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure neither transparency nor accountability are held towards the EULEX mission, begging the question of how and when the justice system will be working to bring needed reconciliation for the people in Kosovo .

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Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

Please note: Photo credit should read Jong-Rock Park.

As of 11:30 pm last night all of the activists had been released from the police station, without any charges.
The police spokesperson has changed his story 3 times on why the police raided the space without a warning with such force, this morning on local Romania television 'Realitita' that protesters had attacked 2 police and the guard of the factory. The police refuse to release the footage of their raid to media which, according to the activists would show the brutality of the police who beat and tear gased the activists before rounding them all up and bringing them to the police station.

Photo Credit: Aaron Lakoff

Photo Credit: Aaron Lakoff