PUZZLE: Morto i Serbi

Let’s start with pure, good and humane intentions. Morto doesn’t mean anything in English so it must be some other language. Perhaps nobody knows that other language. Let’s do a little brain gymnastics and look at:


Spanish: muerte = death,
Italian: morte = to die
French murier = to die
Latin = mortus = dead
So we conclude that in all probability the first word of the puzzle may easily mean death, to die, dead, or something similarly unappetizing.


Second word Serbi (sounds like Serbia, Serbian, Serbs) so, on a hunch let’s stick to that one.


Put them together and you get “Death to Serbs”. If you take into account that this was written on burned Serbian Church in the town of Prizren (today’s Kosovo province in Southern Serbia – under the UN control and NATO force patrolled.


Almost a year ago (March 14 through 17th) to be found at BBC’s link: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3928153.stm

Many other sources covered these events.

Let’s take a closer look. The present state of Kosovo is still undetermined. The Albanian majority wants independence. Usually there is nothing wrong with independence. If we suppose that their version of independence may involve some degree of death to some other people, we rightfully ask why not give the independence to every state prison and have a majority vote decide what the rules should be. I have a nasty feeling the guards would be outvoted, if not outright lynched. Similar with Kosovo. The present state of affairs does not warrant any degree of independence. If you suppose that NATO air strikes against a sovereign country of Yugoslavia were executed on behest of the Albanians being oppressed, you may rightfully conclude that NATO became an “accomplice after the fact” in this criminal endeavor. As the NATO forces took over the administration of Kosovo along with the EU, they pretty much offered no safety to either party, and the degree of hate is frightening, while in no uncertain terms there isn’t even a remote semblance of civility or future reconciliation. The alleged oppression of Kosovo’s Albanians under the rule of Milosevic (the thug, the butcher) pale in comparison to what is being done now while Kosovo is “protected” by a well armed international presence. Not only were Clinton’s intentions of diverting attention from Monica towards Europe successful, the fruit of that military engagement is a very bitter one.

Iliya Pavlovich