Can I urge people to go to the official website of the Yugoslav government
to understand their thinking on national identity. It follows that the
Albanians do not have a right to self-determination in Kosovo, because
nationhood is linked to historical occupation of land and spiritual home.
The historical map of Kosovo they publish lists exclusively Christian
sites, mostly from the medieval period.
It follows that while many Serbs would deplore atrocities (and refugees are
apparently no longer reporting these) their sense of the right of nations
to self-determination is likely to be an idealist one.
A pity because the geography of Kosovo would have required even militant
Albanian nationalists to come to some economic compromise with neighbouring
regions, since the land link to Albania is economically unviable.
Please check this site out
http://www.gov.yu/kosovo_facts/enter5.html
Chris Burford
London
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