In a bit of a panic about what to do with the rest of my life I
joined the Canadian army at 19. I now live in Rhode Island USA, but
anyways. We were sent to Bosnia-Hercegovinia in 1993 and the border
issue was a minor problem. UN peacekeepers were not allowed into
then Yugoslavia (now Serbia-Montenegro) without a piece of paper. I
mean we must have crossed 100 times and no-one ever asked but.....
the whole Kosovo war of the late 90's (I was out of the army by then)
was started with Kosovars, who are ethnic Albanians and speak a
different language, basically started shooting at Serb, then
Yugoslavian, policeman and the over-the-top heavy handed response of
the Serbs. That Serbian-Albanian border is of considerable
discussion. It is now de-marked by a treaty forced on Yugoslavia and
Albania (read Kosovo) by NATO. It does not follow the traditional
lines of the original border.

By the way, as a former peacekeeper in the UN, I and my fellow
soldiers almost universally felt that all peoples were about equally
as good or as bad or as at fault. I have no opinion about who was
right or wrong. If you have any questions about my loyalties,
believe you me, all sides had heroic and genuinelly nice human
beings, they also had awful people.

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@i...>
wrote:

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