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Eradication of Serbian Culture and Religion Continues
in Kosovo
By Stella
Jatras
In 1999,
President Clinton took us to war on the side of Osama bin
Laden-trained rebels against Serbia, a nation that was our
ally in WWI and II. This was the first war in history
started by America.
Clinton's
goal was to divert press attention from the Cox Commission
Report, due out the week Clinton started the war, which
detailed how he had sold US military secrets in exchange for
campaign contributions from Communist Chinese
leadership.
The war
resulted in the province of Kosovo, which belonged to
Serbia, being given to radical Muslims. We at CS, we along
with many other groups, continue to monitor the situation
there. Here's the latest from our Balkans analyst, Stella
Jatras:
In his 28
December commentary titled , "Remember
Kosovo?"
Cliff Kincaid (Accuracy in Media,) wrote, "AIM put together
a list of the most underreported or buried stories of 2004,
and one of them was the resurgence of anti-Serb,
anti-Christian violence in Kosovo. Dozens were killed and
more Christian churches were destroyedthere. Kosovo got some
attention near the end of the year when newspapers covered
the fact that a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army,
the KLA, became prime minister in a new Kosovo-based
government. A story in The Washington Post, back on page 18,
noted that he has been accused of 'war atrocities' and may
be indicted."
Perhaps
the answer to the question why can be found in a Der Spiegel
commentary of 13 December titled, "A
Prime Minister with a
Kalashnikov."
Author Renate Flottau writes, "Former Kosovo Liberation Army
commander Ramush Haradinaj stands accused of murdering 67
Serbs and ordering the deaths of 267 others. No matter: he
became prime minister of Kosovo two weeks ago." Renate
Flottau continues, "A decision on Haradinaj's indictment
will probably be made in the very near future, but the
tribunal's investigation will likely play a lesser role than
anticipated. As it turns out, the Americans are interested
in Haradinaj acting as their partner at the status
negotiations for Kosovo.... [Haradinaj] has been one
of the US government's closest allies ever since the NATO
bombardment of Yugoslavia. In fact, he was already the White
House's top pick as the new leader of Kosovo's ethnic
Albanians a few months after the war ended. The US
government wanted Haradinaj to replace former fellow KLA
fighter Hashim Thaci as the international negotiating
partner in Kosovo after Thaci was discredited for his shady
past."
A 27
December British Helsinki Human Rights Group report entitled
"Cultural
Genocide in Kosovo"
states, "Of course, independence will not solve anything -
except in the Hitlerian sense. If the American advocates of
Kosovo's independence [Abramowitz, Holbrooke] get
their way, the surviving gheottoised Serbs face annihilation
along with their ancestors' extraordinary contributions to
the architectural heritage of Christian Europe in the
medieval times. Sadly, that is all too likely."
The
election of a KLA war criminal in Kosovo is reminiscent of
the the 1996 elections in Bosnia when the Clinton
administration did not cry "fraud" as an "estimated 600,000
phantom votes [cast], according to preliminary
results that call into question the apparent victory of the
Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic." (The Guardian, 24 Sept.
1996.) The Washington Times reported on 21 Sept 1996,
"Bosnia voting exceeds 100 percent." Furthermore, The New
York Times of 1 Jan. 1997, reported that "Iran gave $500,000
to Bosnian [Izetbegovic] President's Elections
Effort." Had President Izetbegovic lived, he was to be
charged as a war criminal. It is apparent, however, that
with the election of Haradinaj, Izetbegovic didn't have
anything to fear after all. It appears that the only war
criminals are Serbs who have already been convicted even
before they are tried.
Unfortunately,
the election of Haradinaj indicates that little has changed
in Bosnia and Kosovo since President Bush took office:
Albanian and al-Qaeda narco-terrorist continue to make
Kosovo the center of European drug trafficking and
prostitution; Serbs, Roma (Gypsies) and other ethnic groups,
including non-conforming Albanians are being driven out or
murdered; and Serbian culture and religion are being
eradicated. The Bosnian Republic of Srbska continues to
suffer under the arbitrary rule of a dictatorial UN
administrator. The question must be asked: With the focus on
Afghanistan and Iraq, when will the Bush Administration's
war on terror -- more than 3 years into it -- finally catch
up with Kosovo?
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