NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/bit/listserv/mideurl/281

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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:30:43 LCL
Sender:       Discussion of Middle Europe topics <[e-mail]>
From:         bob <[e-mail]>
Subject:      Re: South Serbia
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              28 Jul 1992 06:43:57 -0400 from <[e-mail]>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:43:57 -0400 The Observer said:
>Bulgarian media note with concern that a new entity has appeared on the
>Serbian world map: "South Serbia", otherwise known as Macedonia. What
>this is indicating - you have three guesses, folks.
>
>Meanwhile, in Germany there is growing certainty that the "ethnical
>purification" of entire Bosnia is history's final word about a state
>which wanted to be sovereign. People seem to settle with the notion
>that the non-Serbian refugees, once being elsewhere, will never get
>a chance to return. Silent nod of the three great arsehole organizations:
>The UN, the EC, and the CSCE.
>
>The Observer

Dear Observer:
I can understand that things look different from different perspectives.
From the perspective of the current German government, any retailoring
of the Balkans map without Germany's approval and getting some benefit
from it is bad. Since Serbia or the trunk Yugoslavia is the only
agency on the territory of xYugoslavia that doesn't ask Germany's
government what to do and acts on its own, Serbia is Germany's major
enemy out there. Consenquently, all Serbia's moves in the Balkans are
proclaimed 'dangerous', 'aggressive', etc.

But, it's also plausible that Serbia is in part doing what it does,
to the extent it does, because of the German government's Balkans policy.
Germany's backing of secession of Slovenia, and then Croatia, and then
Bosnia, and then (??) - internationally, in DM, and in military resources -
has forced Serbia to get messed up probablly much more that it expected.

Well, that's how things look OBSERVED from this side of the Atlantic.
Of course, everybody has interests and strives to pursue them. But
I don't see how national government interests fit to discussions in
computer networks. Are you, dear OBSERVER from Germany, working for
your government, or what? Please don't take me wrong. Nothing personal!

Observer2

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