Kosovo is the seventh and last fragment of the old Communist Yugoslavia to become a sovereign state.(The Week)(Brief article)

Kosovo is the seventh and last fragment of the old Communist Yugoslavia to become a sovereign state. The Yugoslav breakup unleashed nationalist passions, genocide, and armed intervention from outside: in the case of Kosovo, nothing less than occupation by NATO. Nine in ten of the 2 million Kosovars are Muslim Albanians. They pushed for independence--often violently--even before Slobodan Milosevic committed his outrages against them, and could not have been persuaded to accept anything less. But the Kosovar minority are Orthodox Serbs. They greatly resent being dispossessed of what they see as their ancestral ...