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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (8316)	5/13/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 17770

Others might see it as Yugoslavian forces surrendering a province of their country to a terrorist organization with external backing. Somehow the British were saying the same thing about French support for our unruly forefathers during the American Revolution. But our forefathers seemed to have a different perspective. They clearly believed that the British monarchy was guilty of taxation without representation and exploiting the labor of their colonies. Some people would claim that the minute Milosevic stripped Kosovo of autonomy and representation in the national gov't, they relinquished any legal claim to authority over the ethnic-albanian populace in that region. And some people would claim that during the break-up of Yugoslavia during the early '90s, Milosevic's unilateral arming of the Bosnian-Serb population, and the fear mongering he spread about what the Muslims and Croats had in store for the Bosnian Serbs, were his attempt to seize a geographical claim on ALL Serbian populated regions throughout Bosnia. Lest you forget, it was the Bosnian Serbs who spent months laying seige to Sarajevo, while the inferiorily armed Bosnian Muslims were forced to suffer from ethnic cleansing in their villages until they received sufficient arms from Croats, Mid-Eastern nations, and Albanians to successfully defend themselves (with a little help from NATO airstrikes to boot). Some people claim that this action alone justifies bringing up Milosevic on charges for war crimes. As for the WWF solution, I'm all for that. Except I would place governmental leaders on an isolated island in a fight to the death, winner take all. I bet they would find the path to peace faster than you or could say "ethnic cleansing". Btw, in Hangchou, Chinese students surrounded a Japanese dormitory after an apparent argument over the NATO bombing. A Japanese student was alledgedly slapped by a Chinese student. Regards, Ron