the Kosovo question (history)

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> "Debora A. Orf" <dorf01

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> im pretty much a pacifist. altho i do have a second degree black belt, and

> would not hesitate to use it if the need was there for another being.

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> Fact is even one of the vows that was taken reads something like 'dont

> hesitate to break something if another being is in dire need'. One of hte

> stories of Shakyamuni Buddha's past life was that since he could see the

> karmic ripples of the act, he did not hesitate to kill another being to

> save the lives of 400 others. *so*

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> Slovodon Milosovich is not a nice person. Whats happening in Kosovo is not

> a situation where most beings want to be.

>

> So q is: what can/should we do?

>

> --jt

 

The analogy to this question is: "What can one do to stop an avalanche once

it has been allowed to form?"

 

One should have prevented the formation of the avalanche in the first place;

once it has formed it can't be stopped anymore.

 

The former Yugoslav dictator Tito gave each people specific rights, cleverly

playing them off against each other. The Serbs became leading in the

artificial country's army. For the Serbs it was the perfect role as they can

never forget having been defeated by the Turks (Muslim means Turk to them).

Soon I learned to recognize people quarreling over "Yugoslavia"; invariably,

the explanation was given "no foreigner can understand this" but a

Macedonian was so friendly as to say "Yugoslavia doesn't exist in reality,

only on maps"; for us the Serbs are suppressers" and of course this was

quite visible.

 

So when Tito died it was certain that, unless an equally shrewd dictator

would succeed him, it would mean the end of Yugoslavia for the outside world

too. As Serbia was militarily the strongest state but far from the richest

one, what happened was predictable. This is the point in history where the

avalanche started to form. But its seed was formed being defeated by the

Turks; the yearly memorial keeps the resentment alive.

 

As history proves man doesn't learn from it, perhaps burning all school

history books and archives, banning history from school, would be an answer,

disabling resentment instead of building up.

 

Jan