From: malenovi@plains.NoDak.edu (Malenovic Nikola V.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: The Kosovo Mosaic ( VREME NDA 8 Sep 1992 )
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:36:47 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


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     "Vreme" News Digest No. 50                           September 7, 1992
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    The Kosovo Mosaic
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                                BACK TO SCHOOL


                        Are there discriminatory laws?

    All signs  in Kosovo point to  September being a time  of schoolchildren
    and students. The new school term for Albanian secondary school children
    is a  matter of uncertainty. Once  again they came to  their schools but
    were prevented from taking their places in the classrooms. There were no
    major excesses  if one ignores  the detaining of  directors and teachers
    for so-called informative talks. The educational authorities in Pristina
    and  Belgrade  are  evidently  not  bothered  much  by  this.  They  are
    preoccupied by the latest announcement of  PM Milan Panic that "not only
    will  the University  in Pristina  be opened,  but all  the schools".  A
    delegation of Serbs and Montenegrins, most of them members of SPS, which
    travelled to  Belgrade in four  buses for talks  with the Federal  Prime
    Minister, didn't  achieve the expected result  of damaging the premier's
    reputation.

    However, Albanian educationalists have no intention of teaching children
    that  they  derive  from  the  Slavs,  or  of  sending  their  plans and
    programmes to Belgrade for verification. In  the absence of good will on
    both  the sides  it is  those who   are least  guilty who  suffer -  the
    children.

    In the  meantime the Municipal  Council of Pristina  has quickly changed
    the  names of  the schools  which carried  the names  of famous Albanian
    personages. The Albanians have not been lazy either - they have replaced
    the names  of schools named after  well-known personalities from Serbian
    history  and  culture  with  their  own!  All  in  all,  the  outwitting
    continues.  The only  thing is  that  for  the last  twenty days  Redzep
    Osmani,  president  of  the   Association  of  Albanian  Teachers  "Naim
    Frasheri", has been lingering in jail.

    How can the painful Kosovo "situation"  be resolved? All eyes are on the
    latest  "disagreement" between  President Slobodan  Milosevic and  Prime
    Minister Panic. Even though not one of the leaders of Albanian political
    parties has openly  commented on this, the impression  is that they want
    both of them to go to the end in carrying out their promises in order to
    get an  idea of the  resolution of the  Kosovo question. Panic  has on a
    number  of  occasions  said  that  all  discriminatory  laws against the
    Albanians will soon  be cancelled, and the Serbian  government, as could
    be  expected,  categorically  denies  that  they  exist  at  all! Nekibe
    Keljmendi, a lawyer from Pristina, has come upon a number of interesting
    facts  by following  the continuity  of the  Official Gazette of Serbia:
    "Between 1990 and 1992, the  former General Assembly of Federal Republic
    of Serbia, that  is the present National Assembly  of Serbia, has passed
    34  laws which  violate the  human rights  of Albanians  in Kosovo,  the
    autonomy of the province was repealed, all provincial laws were revoked;
    308  decrees  on  the  introduction  of  emergency  measures in over 400
    companies were issued;  10 decrees on the changing  of urban development
    plans,  with the  aim of  colonizing Kosovo,  were issued;  57 municipal
    officials  in all  the Kosovo  councils were  voted out  of office - all
    Albanians,  to  be  replaced  by  Serbs  and  Montenegrins;  21 Albanian
    judicial officials  were replaced by Serbs  and Montenegrins; 11 decrees
    were  passed  on  the  changing  of  the  names  of streets, schools and
    cultural institutions in Kosovo. In other  words, from 26 June 1990 to 8
    August 1992, on the questions of Kosovo and the Albanians, an average of
    18 laws,  decrees or regulations  per month were  passed by the  Serbian
    Parliament", concludes Nekibe Keljmendi.

    Federal Prime Minister Milan Panic has announced a visit to Kosovo soon.
    The  malicious, however,  don't exclude  the possibility  that Milosevic
    will appear here before him. Before its too late, they say....


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     "Vreme" News Digest No. 50                           September 7, 1992
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