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Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (595)	3/29/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: P.T.Burnem	Respond to of 17770

How come Eskimos comprise close to 0% of Congo's population? I give up. The following are excerpts from the Yugo Army Area Handbook (http://www.tradecompass.com/library/books/armyhb/CHAPT02.03YU.html) that will hopefully shed some light on the Kosovo demographic trends: -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Serbian-Albanian struggle for Kosovo, the heartland of Serbia's medieval kingdom, dominated Serbia's political life and cafe conversation in the 1980s. Between 1948 and 1990, the Serbian share of Kosovo's population dropped from 23.6 percent to less than 10 percent, while the ethnic Albanian share increased in proportion because of a high birth rate and immigration from Albania. [where's evidence of "ethnic cleansing"?] The demographic change was also the result of political and economic conditions; the postwar Serbian exodus from Kosovo accelerated in 1966 after ethnic Albanian communist leaders gained control of the province, and Kosovo remained the most poverty-stricken region of Yugoslavia in spite of huge government investments (see Kosovo, ch. 4; Regional Disparities, ch. 3). After reasserting political control over Kosovo in 1989, the Serbian government announced an ambitious program to resettle Serbs in Kosovo, but the plan attracted scant interest among Serbian emigres from the region. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1990 Yugoslavia's ethnic Albanians had the highest birth rate in Europe, and more than half of Kosovo's Albanians were under twenty years old in the late 1970s. The birth rate strained the region's already desperate economy and depressed the Albanians' standard of living in every area. The ethnic Albanians also had Yugoslavia's lowest literacy rate: 68.5 percent of individuals over age ten were able to read in 1979. In 1981 only 178,000 of 1.5 million Albanians in Kosovo were employed; one in four of those employed held nominal bureaucratic positions. Meanwhile, the student population of 470,000 was a constant source of political unrest and potentially higher unemployment upon graduation. ------------------------------------------------------------------