The Possibility of Independence in Vojvodina

[Poltergeist]

The Next Kosovo: The Possibility of Independence in Vojvodina

May 05, 2009

by Fabiola Hernandez

Another Serbian Province Seeking Independence

In more recent history, after the conclusion of World War I, Vojvodina was awarded to Serbia, but then occupied by the Nazis during World War II. Serbia officially granted it autonomy in 1946 due to the fact that Serbs only made up a small majority in the province. Yugoslavia granted both Vojvodina and Kosovo representation in the government and politics in the Yugoslav constitution of 1974. Slobodan Milosevic revoked Vojvodina and Kosovo's autonomous status and regained control of the two multi-national provinces in the late 1980s, being one of the factors that led to the eventual dissolution of Yugoslavia.

Tadic and Kostunica, the president and prime minister of Serbia, respectively, agreed that negotiations on Kosovo and its ethnic Albanians should happen in conjunction with the status of the ethnic Hungarians living in Vojvodina. The issue has even been elevated to the European Parliament in recent years, pointing out the violations of minority and ethnic rights within the province. Political parties in Hungary are pushing for the protection of their people in Serbia as well as some parties in Vojvodina such as the Democratic Community of Vojvodina Hungarians and the Democratic Party of Vojvodina Hungarians.

Violence began to stir up in Vojvodina in the summer of 2004. This has even strained ties between Hungary and Serbia, using the conflict against Serbia's possible accession into the European Union. 300,000 Hungarians live in the province as aforementioned, giving them the shorter straw when it comes to ethnic crimes. Assaults on Serbs by Hungarians are publicized, but the Serbian government fails to report the attacks on Hungarians by Serbs.

Important leaders in the movement for Vojvodina's independence include the allies Nenad Canak and Jozsef Kasza. Nenad Canak is the speaker of the Vojvodina Assembly, a firm critique of the Serbian government, and is pro-autonomy for Vojvodina. He uses the situations of the other breakaway provinces as models and learns from fellow seperatists on how to make progress towards independence.

Jozsef Kasza is an ethnic Hungarian politician that was part of the former Democratic Opposition of Serbia party. He is currently the chairman of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians party and currently plays a passive role in advocating independence because of the bad conditions present such as Kosovo recently claiming independence. Patience will have to be a virtue for the Hungarian separatists as they wait for the situation and violence in Kosovo to cool off.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ty_of_pg2.html

[Svarog]

Dream on.

[Poltergeist]

It is not only dreaming. The realization is also underway, but slowly.

[RoyBatty]

Another made in USA / EU production........

[Poltergeist]

Another made in USA / EU production........

yeah, and what can you do about it?

[RoyBatty]

yeah, and what can you do about it?

Nothing, obviously. Anyway, no point in predicting the future. Let's see what happens.

[Poltergeist]

There is also the issue of the Bosniak people in Sanjak living under Serb tyranny, then the eastern regions of present-day Serbia populated by Vlachs who are seeking their national rights for independence. The area around Pirot should be returned to Bulgaria, to whom it belongs. The region of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvidja should be annexed by the independent and sovereign Republic of Kosova, while the rest of Serbia, the true ethnical Serbia, should annex the northern corner of Kosova, now inhabited by Serbian minority. Only in that case justice will be served and Serbia reduced to its true measure.

[Poltergeist]

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[Svarog]

as i said, dream on cocksucker

[The Lawspeaker]

Which is so typical about Slavs in general is their almost Jew-like "eternal victim"-state of mind. Always speaking about the crimes that peoples around them may have committed but shying away from any involvement they themselves might have had in the unfolding drama.

As soon as they get criticized they come up with the most incredible ad-hominems. Like this Serb above me which called me (in a post announcing his withdrawal) a "cocksucker".
Well we West Europeans also have our problems with each other but we don't take it as far as those that are now beyond the unnatural Oder-Neisse border.
I (for instance) still think that the French should hand over the Southern Netherlands to the Flemish and I am quite sure that some French will disagree but at least we can talk about it in reason as both are civilized peoples that realize that Louis XIV is dead and buried. And the same goes for all the other border disputes no one bothers to talk about as the rights of the "trapped minorities" are being respected by all parties involved- or the rights of the neighbors in some cases. The barely noticeable Danish-German situation in Sleswick-Holsatia and Southern Denmark, the Dutch-German border dispute over the Dollard etc etc. No one really bothers.

Our Slavic Europeans on the other hand (with an exception for our Polish friends who still bitterly defend their claims but at least in a more gentlemanly manner) simply refuse to acknowledge their neighbors and their own crimes and state that "conquered is conquered" but cry bitterly when a neighbor nicks some of their own land.


That's all I have to say about this and I will leave this tread in disgust.