Summary
PRISTINA, Kosovo -- The province of Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, sending tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians streaming through the streets to celebrate what they hoped was the end of a long and bloody struggle for national self-determination.
Kosovo's bid to be recognized as Europe's newest country -- after a civil war that killed 10,000 people a decade ago and then years of limbo as a U.N. protectorate -- was the latest episode in the dismemberment of the former Yugoslavia, 17 years after its dissolution began.See the full content of this document
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Kosovo Hails Independence
It brings to a climax a showdown between the West, which argues that Serbia's brutal subjugation of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority cost it any right to rule the territory, and the Serbian government and its allies in the Kremlin. They counter that Kosovo's independence is a reckless breach of international law that will spur other secessionist movements across the world.
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