[PEN-L:6838] Re: Re: Gregor Gysi letter to Slobodan Milosevic

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

Jim,
     Well, as a further addendum to my earlier response
to Louis, another hard fact is that there has been
tension and at times violent conflict, between the
Serbian and Albanian ethnic populations in Kosovo-
Metohija for a long time and certainly off and on all of
this century.  Furthermore the population balance in
the area has gone back and forth over time as one
group or the other has had the upper hand locally.
     This begins to sound like the rampant nationalism
explanation.  But somehow it must be faced in this
case, whatever is done.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 2:29 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6827] Re: Gregor Gysi letter to Slobodan Milosevic


>At 01:31 PM 5/14/99 -0400, Louis wrote:
>>Barkley, you leave out enormous gaps in your account of the Balkan
>>problems. Milosevic's attack on Kosovan autonomy did not come out of the
>>blue. It was preceded by at least 7 years of mounting tensions in which
>>Kosovars had made life miserable for the average Serb, to the point of
>>driving many from the province.
>
>I think this is important, too.
>
>he quotes: >At a soccer match in Belgrade this October, fans of the
>Pristina team from
>>Kosovo started chanting ''E- Ho! E-Ho!,'' for Enver Hoxha. About the same
>>time, a post office was bombed and an electric power plant, sabotaged.
>>''Kosovo is finished as Serb territory, that's for certain,'' said Milutin
>>Garasanin, a distinguished archeologist at Belgrade University.
>
>to what extent are the current troubles in Serbia due to Enver Hoxha's
>efforts to attack Tito (or due to antagonisms between the old Yugoslavia
>and the old Albania)?
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
>Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!
>
>