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From: Brian Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Howard R. Davis III wrote:
>
>> In the 1998 World Cup (Soccer) held in France, two countries from the
>> former Yugoslavia played (and did well). Yugoslavia and Croatia. I
>> believe that Yugoslavia may have gotten into the final 8 and I know that
>> Croatia came in third. No one mentioned Serbia as being a country.
>
>An article in New American magazine (3/15/99) calls Kosovo a
>"Serbian province" -- not a "Yugoslavian province." The
>article goes on: "Serbs regard the province to be the
>spiritual home of Serbian nationalism" -- not "Yugoslavian
>nationalism."
Kosovo HAD been an autonomous region within the old Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia. During the breakup of SFRY, Kosovo became a
dependent province of Serbia, itself a component of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia. The northern region of Voivodina suffered a similar
transition. The FRY *has* become a Serbian-dominated state, but that
doesn't negate the FACTS that 1) Serbia is a province of FRY, not a
sovereign nation as you claimed; 2) FRY also comprises Montenegro,
Voivodina [mostly Hungarian] and Kosovo [mostly Albanian]; and 3)
Kosovo was taken from the Serbs around 700 years ago - that Serbs
may consider it the spiritual home of their nationalism, conflicts
with the reality of Kosovo being an Albanian region. Medieval Xians
saw Jerusalem as their spiritual home too, but a few hundred years of
bloody crusades didn't alter the reality of Muslim dominance.
>More: "Many within the ethnic Albanian majority favor independence
>from Serbia..." (New American, 3/15/99)
>
>Scanning through the New American article, I find no mention
>of Yugoslavia, *per se*; the nomenclature is always "Serbia
>this; Serbia that."
You may find magazine articles referring to "Washington this" and
"Washington that", which doesn't mean that the United States of
America doesn't exist, just that journalists can be sloppy.
BTW the reason that NATO/UN/etc are interested in events in Kosovo
and the rest of the former SFRY is: nearby nations including Italy,
Greece, Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, as
well as Russia, ALL have significant historical/cultural links to
the area of the former SFRY and are likely to become entangled in
any widening conflict there. The World War of this century started
there, at the junction of East and West and MidEast, where Orthodoxy
and Catholicism and Islam grind together. IMHO it's in the interest
of us all that future World Wars are NOT provoked by events there;
and if that means squashing Belgrade-based fascists, tough.
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