Re: [nukkad] Kosovo--resend, with link

[Carola Renz <>]

Rohit Mansukhlal  schrieb:And yet soon after his death seccessionists managed 
to splinter
the country whereas India, despite many attempts from across the border has
managed to remain one piece. Why ? 
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You can't compare India to Yugoslavia!
In contrast to  India "Yugoslavia"  never was   a "native" State.  It was 
nothing but an artificial conglomerate of several religious and cultural 
different ethnities, mainly Serbia, Croatia, Slowenia, none of them ever before 
really independed for longer periods.

The last Turkish conquerors fled the Balcan in 1912/13  and with the murder of 
Austria-Hungarian heir apparent FranzFerdinand in Sarajevo in 1914  WW I broke 
out.During WW I it was Serbias effort to unite Serbian, Croatian and Slowenian 
people. 

On December, 1st 1918 Serbian Prince Alexander Karadjordjevi´c founded the 
"Kingdom of Serbia,Croatia and Slowenia", he was pronounced King of this 
Kingdom in 1921. Amongst  the then 13 000 000 inhabitants of this kingdom lived 
 german and hungarian minorities in the north and albanian and turkish 
minorities in the south. Difficulties soon arose due to the  fact that 
Croatians and Slowenians didn't agree to the centralistic intentions of the 
Serbians, secondly the cultural and religious differences between the orthodox 
balcanian (eastern) Serbians and the more western,roman catholic Croatians 
caused troubles. The parties splitted more and more so that in 1929  the royal 
parliament was turned into a dictatory regime. In 1931 Alexander set up a new 
authoritarian constitution  and pronounced the "Kingdom of Yugoslawia".
King Alexander was killed in 1934 in Marseille. His successor was Prince Paul 
Karadjordjevi´c who's prime minister signed the renunciation contratc.Macedonia 
was no longer part of Yugoslawia.In 1939  Croatia received  authonomy and a  
free elected parliamanet.

With the beginning of WW II the Kingdom of Yugoslawia  collapsed and it  was 
divided between Italy, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, a so called 
"Independend State of Croatia", Montenegro and Serbia.  All memebers of the 
royal  Yugoslavian Government had fled to their London excile.

In 1942 leader of the partisans, Tito,  founded an "Antifascistic Government of 
National  Independence"  that replaced  the excile government.The western 
governments accepted this. 
On November, 29th 1945 a constitutional assembly pronounced the "Republic of 
Yugoslavia" with Tito as the first  Prime Minister.
In January 1946 the new constitution was passed. Serbia, Croatia, Slowenia, 
Bosnia-Herzogovina, Macedonia and Montenegro were members of the "Federal 
Peoples Republic of Yugoslawia". Each of them with an own additional 
constituion.

In 1948 the communistic leaders of Yugoslawia  dissociated themselves  from  
Sowjetunion and in 1953 Tito was declared President after an alteration of the 
constitution. As Rohit already mentioned he governed as a totalistic dictator. 
He died in 1980.
After Tito's death the artificial construction  splitted more and more  as the 
different ethnities strove for authonomy and independence. The riots grew  and 
grew until the fights became war.  
Due to international supports some of them soon succeeded in becoming 
independend, others struggled much longer - until today, when Kosovo became 
independed from Serbia.


Carola Renz
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On 2/18/08, Dr.M.C. Gupta  wrote:
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> Kosovo has declared independence. I am not knowledgeable about the region.
> My knowledge is limited to a link that a nukkad friend sent me personally.
> I
> shall be grateful to know from those who know more as to whether this link
> is, by and large, OK.
>
> I forgot to send the link in the last mail.
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> It is
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> http://en.allexperts.com/q/Yugoslavia-Serbia-Kosovo-356/Kosovo-crisis-1999
> .
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> MCG
> --
> Prof. M C Gupta
> MD (Medicine), MPH,  LL.M.,
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> Advocate & Health and Medico-legal Consultant
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> mcgupta44@gmail.com
> www.writing.com/authors/mcgupta44
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