33. Kosovo: Conflict, Corruption, and a Brand New Army
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Kosovo based journalist Valeria Plesch tells us about Kosovo's recent decision to start its own army and the trouble this could cause in a country still tense from the war in the 90s. We also talk about the crippling youth unemployment in Kosovo and the stagnating government made up of former guerrillas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:02.0 | a popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky details of modern warfare with me |
| 0:10.0 | Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:11.0 | For this episode we're speaking to Valerie Plessh. |
| 0:14.5 | She's a journalist based in Kosovo. |
| 0:16.6 | She's been based there for years and has been consistently covering some of the very underreported |
| 0:21.5 | situations in the country there. Today she's going to be speaking |
| 0:24.6 | about the recent decision in December that the Kosovo parliament passed for the country to have |
| 0:30.2 | its own military. Now of course this has caused a lot of tension with Serbia |
| 0:34.4 | they don't get on as it is and the war is still very fresh in everybody's minds |
| 0:38.9 | from the 90s. Valerie will be speaking about these issues that the military might cause |
| 0:43.8 | talking about corruption and all sorts of other things in Kosovo. |
| 0:47.0 | To support Popular Front even if it's just a dollar every little helps consider |
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| 0:56.5 | Towards the end of 2018 Kossavo voted right to have this military and maybe you can tell us why they |
| 1:05.0 | suddenly did that and why it's kind of a controversial situation for them to do |
| 1:10.0 | that in the area. Well to be honest I was surprised when they finally voted to |
| 1:15.8 | create the army that transformed the current Kosovo security force into an army |
| 1:20.8 | like on December 14th I had been tracking this for a few years now and |
| 1:26.1 | because there's always been talks here on Kosovo since independence that the |
| 1:31.5 | KSF is going to be transformed into an army. |
| 1:34.8 | Kosovo will soon have its national army. |
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