If you think this means I don’t want to live in Kosovo, you’d be wrong. But after the Kosovo-Serbia agreements were ratified and with an amnesty bill now headed toward approval that would legalize a long list of unresolved problems and let known offenders off the hook, we as citizens are apparently meant to start looking out for our own safety and start considering how we’d defend ourselves at a basic level.
The case for asylum in an English-speaking country, sarcastically argued: under Article 3 of the proposed bill, a long list of offenses committed before June 20, 2013 would go unpunished if the amnesty passed, everything from bodily harm and assault to abuse of official duty, unlawful hunting, theft and contempt of court, dozens of articles deep. I won’t reproduce the entire list here, but it read less like a narrow legal fix and more like a general pardon.
So, I’m still waiting on that invitation, dear Ambassador. Any country that can offer a normal life would do, anywhere in the world.
I remember two things clearly from before the war: that I didn’t complain nearly this much back then and that when I did, it was only ever about “the Serbs.” It isn’t the Serbs anymore. I genuinely don’t know who’s left to blame for the impossible, chaotic life quietly being built here now.
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