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Old 02-17-2008, 02:57 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty View Post
Palestinians have their own state, I believe it is called Jordan.

Same with Albanian Kosovars, they have a state too, I believe it is called Albania. After the NATO "took action" it sat idly and watched as Albanians forced Serbs to leave their homes. Now obviously there is an Albanian majority in Kosovo that can declare independence on a pretty much stolen land, all with the support of NATO, EU and the UN. Bravo.
Valiant attempt to misrepresent the facts; even before the war, ethnic Albanians made up the vast majority of Kosovo's population, approximately 1.6 million to about .4 million Serbs. And many of those Serbs were new to Kosovo themselves, relocated from Bosnia and Croatia following the conflict there in the early 90s. Even without the relocation of these refugees back into Serbia, Kosovo would be overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian. Hardly stolen land; they'd still have a very strong claim to independence.

However, I do agree with you in regards to persecution of the Serbs in Kosovo, which has been and continues to be an ongoing problem, and it's typical of eastern europe where those who belong ethnically to a former dominating nation are treated as second class citizens; ethnic Russians living in Latvia experienced the same thing (although not as severely as Serbs in Kosovo).
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