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Montenegro 'chooses independence'
BBC News Website ^ | 5/21/06 | BBC

Posted on 05/21/2006 1:21:19 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot

Montenegro has voted for independence from its union with Serbia, according to unofficial projections. If confirmed, the vote would erase the last vestige of the former Yugoslavia.

Initial indications are that 56.3% of voters elected to secede from Serbia. The pro-independence bloc needs to win 55% of the vote to succeed.

The question of independence has deeply divided Montenegro, with its opponents arguing that it will damage economic, family and political ties with Serbia.


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To: sammy123
All Albanians in that region are not criminals so get real and be realistic. Once they are independant the Serbs will not go there.

And that is because the Albanians are criminals are will kill any Serb civilians that they can. Mob violence is the rule in Kosovo so long as it remains in the hands of the Albanian theives.

If Kosovo is lost now it will be gone for ever.

And this is why the Albanians seek to destroy any vestige of the Christian Serb presence...that and it is what their true master demands of them.

But the Serbs are patient and will return when the Albanians have no other army to hid behind and must face justice on their own (HINT: they'll run like hell).

41 posted on 06/05/2006 4:04:52 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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Listen your views are well taken. I am sure there are criminals there. I am not convinnced that all Albanians feel or act the same. Extremists exist all over the world. This is how dictators controlled power. What happened to innocent people who may have had no political or extremists view. I am sure many Albanians fit this bill. The SERBS forces should have gone after the ones who deserved it not the innocent ones. You and I were not there to know what exactly happened. We as many have to rely on the media and reports of other news sites. Maybe politics played a role but all I ask that you stop proclaiming that all are the same. There are 6 million Albanians in the world. Are they all the same?. There more than 6 million serbs in the world are they all the same? that is what my point was and is. But you tend to have a very offensive front and anyone would take the defense. I worked with a man from Belgrade. He had a doctors degree in Electrical Engineering and became a Computer Science Professor here in the US. He and I got along very well disregarding that he was a serb and I was Albanian. We both believed that are roots were from Yugoslavia which they were. It didn't matter what ethnicity we had or came from. Believe me we both spoke about Kosovo and other areas of the Former Yugoslavia, We may have had differences but we compromised and told the truth from both sides. We were not leftist or propagandist. Reality is what it is. Sometimes evil takes the turn for worst. Two wrongs do not make a right.


42 posted on 06/06/2006 9:39:46 AM PDT by sammy123
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To: sammy123
HEY, UNDER-EDUCATED person who makes WILD assumptions!!!

I am not a Serb!! I am a CONSERVATIVE Republican American vet!!

YOU however are a CLINTON Bu_t-kisser and an islamic's pal.

Now, go dabble in traffic someplace....the type of "traffic" you dabble in is YOUR CHOICE depending what CLAN you are a member of!!

43 posted on 06/06/2006 2:11:26 PM PDT by Lion in Winter (islamics are not religious, just set on on mass murder of non-muslims!!)
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To: sammy123

cigarettes, women, boys, guns, drugs, kids, murder, persecution of non-albanians... you get the pic, puppy... ALL ALBANIAN run of course.


44 posted on 06/06/2006 2:13:40 PM PDT by Lion in Winter (islamics are not religious, just set on on mass murder of non-muslims!!)
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They feel oppressed and believe they do not have equal representation, their region is not developed like the beautiful capital of Serbia.
Well, if we're talking about national minorities - for example, Hungarians in Vojvodina can live normaly their whole lives without ever having to learn serbian language. So much for opressed.
As for development - no region in Serbia is as developed as Belgrade. And Vojvodina is more prosperous than most, if not all, other parts of Serbia (yes, apart from Belgrade). Anyway, that's not a good enough reason for secession.
As for representation - that can be arranged. We'll see what the new serbian Constitution will look like.

You will not disagree that everytime a Autonomy or republic becomes independant it takes years and for some centuries before they are able to prosper.
Yeah, well... that depends on many things...

45 posted on 06/08/2006 9:07:08 PM PDT by Mel70
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