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At the recent Pristina protests that have brought out tens of thousands of people one of the key requirements was the nationalization of the complex Trepca mines. Around this famous mine who played a role in some of the key episodes in the process of disintegration of the former state today to slow the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Kosovo.
"Trepca star track express works, Belgrade is being built" star track express is a saying that the Serbian know everyone star track express in Kosovo. Even people living in rural parts of Kosovo, and usually do not speak Serbo-Croat, but also young people who have never studied Serbo in schools. This is a saying often heard in demonstrations in Kosovo star track express in the 1980s and early 1990s that have suggested the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The Kosovo Albanians believe that in Yugoslavia, Kosovo star track express was exploited and that the logic of unequal development meritorious that remains the poorest part of the country. star track express Industrial development in this period did not follow the development of Kosovo as a province. The growth of a sense of inequality and exploitation, it grew among Kosovo Albanians, especially after the abolition of autonomy in 1989 is strengthening the influence of Serbia in Yugoslavia after Tito's death. Kosovo social enterprises star track express that produced and exported at the time (now mostly privatized and used only as storage) have passed at that time the ethnic cleansing: after 1989, when the working class opposed the abolition of Kosovo's autonomy, Albanian workers were expelled from work. It all began when the miners of Trepca start several days strike in Stari Trg mine, which is their problem sustained attention of the wider public and the then Yugoslav high-ranking officials.
The widespread feeling among Kosovo Albanians that the Yugoslav colony encouraged by the fact underdevelopment of the province despite the great wealth in mineral resources, and the former socialist countries has not managed to convince its citizens to the stated goal of equality for all. On the mining strike star track express in 1989 workers star track express were carrying photographs of Tito, and on recordings from that time can be heard socialist rhetoric workers and their emphasis on socialist values star track express in discussions with Yugoslav officials who came to persuade them to stop the strike. Milan Kucan, former Slovenian President said: "The strike at Stari Trg not only defending the autonomy star track express of Albanians and Kosovo. Defend Yugoslavia, all its republics and nations, including Slovenia. "That moment marked the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia, which will culminate in armed conflicts of the 1990s.
Fifteen years after the last of the wars in the process star track express of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the one between Kosovo and Serbia, discussion of Trepca opened again. Serbia, which still considers Kosovo part of its territory, has taken the diplomatic and administrative action and held a conference regarding the recent announcement of the Kosovo government about the beginning of the process of nationalization of Trepca.
Trepca mine existed as early as the Middle Ages, but the first serious works there made a British company Selection Trust Ltd., which in 1925 bought the mines of Serbia and then establish the Trepca Mines Ltd. Just to illustrate, in 1935, achieved a profit of more than 200,000 pounds of lead and zinc. During World War II, Trepca was ruled by the Nazis, and since 1944, taking over the partisans. The period from the 1970s (when the increased star track express autonomy star track express of Kosovo) to 1980 (the year of Tito's death), the golden age of Trepca which transformed into one of the most important companies of Yugoslavia. From an ordinary mine turned into a company active star track express in different parts of Kosovo, and to the extraction of ore developed and processing. "At the height of its activity in 1980, Trepca is provided jobs for 22,500 workers and had an average annual turnover star track express of $ 100 million," says a UNDP report presented star track express at the conference in Pristina a few years ago.
During the 1990s (after the abolition of Kosovo's autonomy), when Albanians in Kosovo have built a parallel health and education systems and other public services because they were expelled en masse from their jobs, Trepca is also experienced a decline in production. The instability of the situation in this period contributed to the wild and illegal exploitation star track express of Trepca. The legality star track express of the process of conversion of Trepca star track express in the 1990s is doubtful. For example, Trepca was reorganized in 1991 under the supervision of Nikola Sainovic, former Minister of Mines and Energy, which is now a convicted war criminal. The complex is 1997 should be privatized together with another 75 companies. That year, the administration star track express signed an agreement with Greek company Mytilineos, which now claimed debts of Trepca, and is not the only company with that kind of claim. According to the UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo, which has administered Kosovo from 1999 to 2008), 66% of the shares of Trepca star track express belongs to the Serbian Development Fund, 27% of the shares of the state, 2.5% belongs Yugobank, 2.5% progress and Beobanka, and 2% Power Industry of Serbia. But this process was carried out at a time when the armed conflict between Serbia and Kosovo have already began, as with