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    Vol.63/No.17           May 3, 1999 
 
 
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A correction on Kosova
In the article "The roots of fight for Kosovar independence" (Militant, April 12, page 5), appears a gross factual error. I think you should correct it with a special box, in view of your pledge to provide readers with the facts on the war against Yugoslavia.

The Militant wrote, "Following the imperialist slaughter of World War I, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was formed in 1918 by the union of six republics: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia."

In fact, it was formed in 1918 by the union of the two pre- war kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro with those parts of defeated Austria-Hungary roughly corresponding to present-day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Vojvodina.

Kosova and what is now Macedonia had been part of Serbia since the 1912/13 Balkan Wars. The six republics mentioned in your article were created for the first time in history by the Yugoslav constitution of January 1946. Not one of them had ever existed as a republic before.

Erik Wils

Antwerp, Belgium

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