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Revolution U: What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic

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Let’s just hope the Egyptian students don’t follow the same path as the Serbians. From NPR:

Bogosavljevic says the younger generation has grown up in post-war isolation and with a sense of defeat: “They are nationalistic, they don’t understanding anything, they never traveled, they never experienced any other nation except Serbia, and they knew that all our neighbors are against us.”

At Belgrade University, students are milling around. Most refuse to speak to foreign journalists, except for 22-year-old law student Mrko Stefanovic.

He’s wary of Europe. He says the war crimes tribunal in The Hague is anti-Serb, and he resents the European Union’s insistence that Serbia accept the independence of Kosovo.

“This is our land,” he says, “this is part of our territory.”