A Thinking Reed

What goes around comes around…

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Lee M.

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Remember when we went to war in Kosovo to protect the heroic freedom-loving Kosovar Albanians from the depredations of the evil Serbs? Right. So, anyway, in the course of reading this story on the UN’s failure to protect the Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies) residing in their refugee camps from lead poisoning, I came across this little nugget:

Many aid agencies are calling for the immediate relocation of the Gypsies, or Roma, as they prefer to be called, who were first settled into camps at the end of 1999 after Kosovo Albanians razed their homes during a bout of ethnic cleansing.

I’m just sayin’.

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2 responses to “What goes around comes around…”

  1. Joshie

    The problem, it seems to me, is that the southeastern quadrant of Europe is not very well suited to nation-states. There are such a variety of ethnic and cultural groups all living in the same places, Roma, Albanians, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Magyars, Greeks and before the WW’s Germans, Turks and Jews. That’s the reason why the situation in the former Yugoslavia is so crazy. Western Powers didn’t understand that nation-states don’t work when you don’t even have a sizable cultural plurality from village to village.

    Maybe doctor Murphy, one of my History profs was right. Austria-Hungary should have been left intact.

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  2. Anonymous

    The publication “Orthodox Word” has detailed some the terrible backlash of ethnic cleasing by Albanians against ethnic Serbs in that area. U.N. “peacekeepers” stand by and watch.

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