<<25-30% is quite small for a guerrilla force in its home territory with 90% of the population represented by the ethnic group. I am no fan of either side. But the Rambouillet agreement IMO is just pushing off the inevitable further splintering of Kosovo under Yugoslavia into the future by pretending that Kosovo under the KLA will remain an "autonomous" province of Yugoslavia. Both the Serbs and Albanians within Kosovo deserve their autonomy.>>
Your assumption is that 30% of held ground is small for a guerilla force which is supported by that 90% ethnic majority. My argument has been, and continues to be, that they did in fact not enjoy such support. I have made that assertion in response to another post which made the absurd argument that the KLA is a popular muslim front. That 30% is tremendous considering their obvious failures and bungling only a year ago and the incredible odds they face in the midst of an occupied Kosovo. They had improved and were beginning to get the support of that 90% who were reacting to Serbian brutality. The bombing has nearly destroyed them. Maybe for the better...
As to both Serbs and Albanians within Kosovo deserving their autonomy, yes they do deserve to have a government which is responsive to the wishes of its constituency irregardless of ethnic make up. The fact that there is an insurgency movement is testemony to the fact that the Serbian dominated Kosovo is not responsive and indeed hostile. In such a hate filled, racist, nationalist region of the world, it is doubtful that anyone there could ever imagine a government "of laws, not of men." Or in the Balkan case, "of laws, not of ethnicities." |
