The March 31 Kosovo debate organized by the Serbian Student Association failed dismally to provide an objective forum for discussion of the situation in the province.

The one-sidedness and bias of the panel was an extension of inane Serbian propaganda and did not bring about a better understanding of why Kosovars are fighting for their independence and why the Serbian government is brutally opposing it.

Someone with more knowledge of Balkan history would have been a better choice than Dr. Mansbach to represent the Kosovo side.

I understand that it is hard to be objective when NATO is bombing your homeland. But the Serbian students should have honestly stated the intent of their presentation rather than making a poor attempt to disguise it in some kind of a “discussion-of-both-sides” forum.

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Sevim Ahmedov

Graduate student

Political science