Letters

The Spectator | January 8, 2000| | Copyright

Balkan barbarism

From Mr Marcus Tanner

Sir: I understand that the aim of your magazine is to provoke, but when John Laughland ('Christmas desecrations', 18/25 December) likened his return from Kosovo to Serbia to a return to civilisation, I nearly fell off my chair. If Serbia is civilised I'll take the barbarism of the Kosovars any day.

I lived in Belgrade as correspondent for the Independent for six years and am in a position to recall the attributes of that civilisation extremely well, more clearly perhaps than Laughland and all the other dime-adozen Balkan 'experts' who have sprung out ...

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