By NICHOLAS WOOD
Published: October 31, 2006
Voters have approved a new constitution reasserting Serbia’s claim to the mostly Albanian southern province of Kosovo, now in contentious United Nations-backed talks about possible independence, election officials said. They said that 54.19 percent of registered voters went to the polls over the weekend and that more than 96 percent of them backed the referendum. Under the new constitution, the federal government will have the right to remove locally elected officials and appoint replacements and Parliament’s control over judges will be increased.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/world/europe/31briefs-003.html
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Before there was Iraq II (its own little piece of history), there were the conflicts in the countries of the "ex-Yugoslavia." Now Kosovo is exploding again, and it seems as if all the media and the pundits can do is rehash the old stories while new bodies pile up. Here is a place where we will attempt to give you a sense of the bigger picture.
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