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former Yugoslavia or ICTY. Nevertheless, before they had to face this tribunal, some of
those individuals had a chance to participate in the 1999 Rambouillet peace talks.
Another aspect of this paper will be the involvement of the international
community. This is going to be discussed in chapters that are describing the conference,
also in these chapters the audience will discover more about media war and the influence
of some western politicians to the situation on Balkan.
At the end of this paper the audience will have a chance to read author‘s analysis
about the future of the Balkan Peninsula as well as the future of the world based on
events that took place in this region.
It is important to mention that the writer of this paper was born in Serbia (at that
time one of Yugoslav republics) and lived there until 2005, which gave him an
opportunity to see what happened in the war in Kosovo from a different perspective than
an average person in the rest of the world. However, thanks to his emigration to the USA
four years ago, the author completed his viewpoint of this conflict. Nevertheless, it is
possible that this paper will offer some views that differ from what people could hear on
CNN or BBC. The reason for this is that western media is very often willing to take sides
in wars, and in this case it was mostly Albanian side. Yet, if the author put some effort to
write something that is not favorable for Albanians in Kosovo, it would not be because of
some kind of bias, but rather due to facts that are supporting different viewpoints, which
will be documented adequately. Despite the fact that war in Kosovo happened just 10-11
years ago there is a huge number of sources that are helpful for anyone interested in this
topic. Some of those sources are bias, but some are quite objective and valuable.