As John Locke believed, I too believe the "right of revolution" has but one meaning and that is; that the people in a society have the right to choose who will represent them in government. They have the right to elect another government or leader when the one originally in control is not doing what is in the people's best interest. We call this right "democracy". A recent example which best illustrates this is the election in Serbia where President Slobodan Milosevic has allegedly lost the election but is refusing to turn over power to the newly elected official, violating every principle of the "right of revolution" or democratic selection process.
In order to fully understand what is happening we must examine historically the event leading up to the election. Reporters and politicians have touted the Serbia-Kosovo problem as being the resul
When the Serbs took control, they sought to consolidate their hold on lands in eastern Bosnia as well as a section of northwestern Bosnia where large Serb populations lived. They also selected as their target a narrow corridor of land that connected the two regions of Bosnia that they controlled. Once in control, they began campaigns to rid their targeted regions of other ethnic groups such as the Albanians in Kosovo. Murder and assault were some of the options but the Serbs also relied on rape as a means of ethnic cleansing. It was these events that caused the military invasion by NATO based on humanitarian and war crime issues.
The last chapter to this ongoing feud in our day and age has yet to be written and I believe the next few weeks will be possibly very dramatic and even resemble a fate such as Hitler's or worse. The question to really be
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