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[PEN-L:6283] Re: Re: Another Note---severed heads in the garden



"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote

> Again, I would reserve the word "partition" for the
> idea of dividing up Kosovo-Metohija somehow, not a
> separation of some sort of the whole province from Serbia.
> This would keep our discussion clear.  The example to think
> of is Bosnia-Herzegovina which has been effectively partitioned
> and I suspect that the fact that a half-baked peace has been
> maintained there is one of the reasons that people keep
> talking up partition, even though it is much less obvious
> how to do it in Kosmet than it was in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
> where it was weird enough.

Bosnia-H is basically an old-style colonial goverment. The central bank and
the economic/finance departments are by law not allowed to be Bosnians or
citizens of neighboring countries. I suspect that's what will happen in
Kosovo and Yugoslavia if NATO gets its way.

Sam Pawlett




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