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Originally Posted by octothorp
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.
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I agree with you that it's not "stolen land" Albanians have been working the land there for generations and have made up the majority for long time, however the situation is more complicated than that.
As I mentioned earlier, Kosovo is the cradle of Serbian civilization. It was Serbia long before Albanians made up the majority. It's a slippery slope to determine at what point the ethnicity make up of a territory trumps historical, moral and legal soverignty. For example, what if in 500 years, Chinese make up 90% of Vancouver Island.... would they have a right to secede from Canada?
As you can see by my avatar, I am not unbiased in perspective of Balkan politics. I tend to sympathize with the Kosovar cause, but at the same time, Serbia has a valid argument as well. Then again, they made their bed in this situation...
