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