Mitrovica and Southern Serbia today

[Seth Ackerman]

	Chris Burford wrote:

> The military clashes in Southern Serbia and Mitrovica form a qualitatively
> 
> different contradiction to those about the self-determination of the 
> population of Kosovo as a whole.
> 
> It is essential that self-determination should be a right for 
> geographically economically coherent areas. It is reasonable that old 
> boundaries keep their status as units for taking such democratic decisions
> 
> and that there is not a fractal division into smaller and smaller units.
> 
> The Albanian attacks in Albanian areas in Southern Serbia are reactionary 
> because they can at best only lead to a redefinition of the border,
> shaving 
> parts of southern Serbia off to join an Albanian republic of Kosovo. The 
> price is much worse division, let alone suffering, between the working 
> people of the different communities.
> 
> Similarly in Mitrovica the attempt to eliminate minorities within 
> subordinate areas can only imply at best the shaving off of a norther
> slice 
> of Kosovo to Serbia. 
> 
> 
Chris, doesn't this just beg the question? Why is the province of Kosovo a
more "coherent" democratic unit than the republic of Serbia? Or the
federation of Yugoslavia?

Seth