[PEN-L:6164] Re: Re: partition?

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Ken,
      You may have unintentionally goofed and know
better, but I said that the most important Serbian
religious sites are in the SOUTH, not the north.
This is why a partition of Kosovo-Metohija (rather
than simply an independence or autonomy of
Kosovo-Metohija as a whole) would be very
difficult to pull off, as well as for other reasons that
I have indicated in some other posts.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 5:27 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6127] Re: partition?


>I was the person who argued for partition not Max, indeed my post followed
a
>long critique of Max's position. Barkley told me to go look at a map and
that
>the important religious sites were in the north not the south. I didn't
>specify a percentage division or where the borders should be drawn. The
north
>seems most plausible so that the main border would be with Serbia but I
left
>those matters up to the parties and any
>third party mediator. The advantages of such a solution are: it obviates
the
>difficulty of settling people, many of whom hate each other with a passion,
>right next door to one another; it offers something to both parties; it
would
>be a settlement made by the main parties in Kosovo and avoids an imposed
>solution meeting NATO's aims but not those of the Albanians or the Serbs. I
>can't see that any other plausible solution would to any extent satisfy the
>aims of both Serbs and ethnic Albanians. The Albanians will not settle for
>anything less than independence at this stage rather than autonomy. I doubt
>that NATO will allow the status quo ante in which Serb control of Kosovo
>continues. As in the Rambouillet agreements NATO would fashion Kosovo
>according to its own lights. Disarmed Serbs and the KLA would just have to
>sit back and take it. I would not be surprised if this were the ultimate
>outcome, a NATO protectorate
>run by the IMF, World Bank, bright-eyed planners of democracy, police, and
law
>courts none of whom
>have any roots or understanding  of the area.
>    Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
>Jim Devine wrote:
>
>> In the current issue of LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER, Doug Henwood interviews
>> Robert Hayden, the director for Russian and East European Studies at the
U
>> of Pittsburgh. Hayden says as one point:
>>
>> "The political solution, I've been arguing, has been the partition of
>> Kosovo, in which the Serbs would keep the northern 20%, which has most of
>> their important religious and symbolic sites, and the [ethnic] Albanians
>> would get the rest as a protectorate, and probably joining the rest of
>> Albania after about five years. There would have to be some provision for
>> redrawing the borders of Macedonia."
>>
>> In addition to pointing to the interesting phenomenon of this this
>> anti-imperialist author advocating something very similar to what Max
>> favors, I ask: but aren't the Serbian "sites" in the south, not the north
>> of Kosova/o? Isn't that what you said, Barkley?
>>
>> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>> http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
>> Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!
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