Poland threatened by ‘Kosovo scenario’

AmusedToDeath · #1 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 04:59 AM

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The Silesian Autonomy Movement has sent a petition to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk asking him to allow all regional communities to gain autonomy status.

If he does not agree, the Silesians say they are ready to raise the issue of separation, according to Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The movement officially declares its support for the autonomy of Silesia. The association was founded in 1991 and is based mainly in the Polish part of Upper Silesia.

A similar petition has been sent to the Polish Sejm, the lower house of parliament, which along with the Senate (the upper house) has adopted the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities and on Regional Language in the country. The Silesians and the Silesian language have not been mentioned among other nationalities and ethnical minorities.

In the 2002 national census, over 170, 000 Poles described their nationality as 'Silesian'. One third of them use the Silesian language at home. The language has been entered into the list of languages at the US Library of Congress.

Silesians have appealed to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights after the Polish district court in Katovitsy ruled that the Silesian nation does not exist, and did not let the Silesian Union to be registered.

According to experts, a deliberate decision to ignore the Silesians’ interests could provoke the ‘Kosovo scenario’.

The problem has a long history. Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located in modern day Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. Modern Silesia is inhabited by Poles, Germans, Czechs and Slavic Silesians. The last Polish census of 2002 showed that the Silesians are the largest national minority in Poland, Germans being the second. Both groups are located mostly in Upper Silesia. The Czech part of Silesia is inhabited by Czechs, Moravians and Poles.

In 1920-1939 Silesia had its own Sejm, the governing body in control of the budget. It was elected in democratic elections and had certain influence over the usage of taxes collected in Silesia.

This example is just one of many to emerge. World secessionism has begun.

xDonnax · #2 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 05:20 AM

And the link to this is??

Edit: Found it, and just like I though, it was Russiatoday.

Adriano · #3 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by AmusedToDeath

This example is just one of many to emerge. World secessionism has begun.

Man they are talking about Vojvodina

This is indirect diplomacy.

AmusedToDeath · #4 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by xDonnax

And the link to this is??

Edit: Found it, and just like I though, it was Russiatoday.

You want to say Russia today is not credible source? Explain, please.

sunnyside · #5 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 10:26 AM

Credible maybe but plenty of biased.

For example their "experts". Even if they'd have a claim to being an expert for some reason they were probably selected for their choice of words in order to give a spicey headling.

Or just as likely the journalest wanted to fit "Kosovo scenario" in there and the experts didn't say they couldn't.

AmusedToDeath · #6 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by sunnyside

Credible maybe but plenty of biased.

For example their "experts". Even if they'd have a claim to being an expert for some reason they were probably selected for their choice of words in order to give a spicey headling.

Or just as likely the journalest wanted to fit "Kosovo scenario" in there and the experts didn't say they couldn't.

One needn't be an expert to see Kosovo in the newest and ever-strong secessionist claims all over the world.

White Fox · #7 (**permalink**) 06-17-2008, 04:34 PM

An excellent example of what happens when countries break themselves apart can be seen to the immediate south of Silesia, namely, the two countries of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolu...Czechoslovakia

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The dissolution had some negative impact on the two economies, especially in 1993, as traditional links needed to accommodate the bureaucracy of international trade were severed, but the impact was considerably lower than expected by many people.

The hopes that dissolution would quickly start an era of high economic growth in the Czech Republic (without the need to "sponsor the less developed Slovakia") proved plainly wrong or highly exaggerated. Also, the hope of a stand-alone, unexploited Slovakia becoming a new "economic tiger" was partially unfounded. The Slovak GDP level is still lower than that of the Czech Republic; the growth of the Slovak GDP, however, has been consistently higher than the Czech one since 1994.

Adriano · #8 (**permalink**) 06-18-2008, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by AmusedToDeath

One needn't be an expert to see Kosovo in the newest and ever-strong secessionist claims all over the world.

So you'd rather support the butchering of Tibet, the tyranny in Chechnya
, The oppression of the Serbs??? Is this the Serb will to enforce all minority's die out slowly because of Serbias butchers wish to keep Kosovo on a 'Mythical" claim, and for fake history??? EDIT.

You are still the one going the wrong way and calling everyone else an idiot.

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