New country, new flag
Kosovar Albanian teacher Luljeta Rama introduces Kosovo's new national flag to her class, on the first school day after Kosovo declared its independence, on the Albanian side of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. The predominantly ethnic Albanian leadership of Kosovo, Serbia's medieval heartland, proclaimed independence from Serbia Sunday with Western backing. Serbia lost control over Kosovo, whose two-million population is 90 percent Albanian, since NATO bombing drove out Serb forces in 1999 to halt their killing and ethnic cleansing in a two-year war against separatist rebels.
(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (C) poses with schoolchildren as they hold the new Kosovo flag during his visit to Ismail Quemali primary school in Pristina February 19, 2008.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (KOSOVO)Fair use
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