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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (22972)	4/22/1999 8:13:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I don't know if you know that my mother's father was Croatian, from Dalmatia (I don't have spots - - well, actually I have a lot of moles, but not like a Dalmatian dog). Once upon a time I'd say I was a quarter Yugoslavian. Now I can say I am a quarter Croatian. I can't tell you why Croatians, who are Catholic, and Serbians, who are Orthodox, could't live together in peace. I don't think they were fighting about whether the Pope was infallible when he spoke ex cathedra, and when Easter should be celebrated, and whether priests should marry, or not. But I can tell you that if Serbians can't live in peace with Croatians, they really can't live in peace with Albanians, who are Muslim. The populatian of Kosovo is 90% "ethnic Albanian." Culturally, the people are Albanian, but were separarated when the Ottoman empire fell, and was carved up by the Western powers. When the old Yugoslavia was coming out from under Communist rule, Kosovo province was given semi-autonomy, like Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia. Milosovic wanted to ban the Kosovar language from being taught in schools, he wanted to get rid of their semi-autonomous government, he wanted Kosovo to be a part of Yugoslavia. I don't think that Kosovo wanted to secede, initially, but Milosovic took a hard line.