-Caveat Lector-
IT IS GRADUALLY BECOMING MORE OBVIOUS WHAT THE BALKANS WAR WAS PARTLY ALL
ABOUT - THE GRABBING OF WEALTH - BUT THERE IS A MUCH MORE SINISTER SCEANRIO
GOING ON - SEE THE POST ENTITLED, "GLOBALCONSPIRACY - THE FREEDOM TO MAKE
SLAVES".
-----Original Message-----
From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 3:17 AM
Subject: [CTRL] NATO and "Ethnic Cleansing" by KLA
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>KLA Moves in After Serbs Depart
>
>By CANDICE HUGHES
>.c The Associated Press
>
>
>DOBRO SELO, Yugoslavia (AP) - It didn't take the Kosovo Liberation Army
long
>to move in after Serb forces withdrew. Within minutes, guerrillas were
coming
>down from the hills. Within hours, they had seized control of one of
>Yugoslavia's biggest coal mines.
>
>NATO got there the next day.
>
>The rebels moved in so fast Saturday morning that mining company manager
>Dragan Radakovic - a Serb - didn't understand what the shooting was at
first.
>``I thought maybe it was the army celebrating'' their pullout, he said.
>
>But the rattle of automatic weapons fire got louder - and closer.
>
>International monitors said the KLA took control Sunday of a major crossing
>point on the Yugoslav-Albanian border shortly after Yugoslav officials
>abandoned it.
>
>About 10-15 KLA guerrillas were guarding the Morini station late Sunday,
said
>Andrea Angeli, spokesman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in
>Europe. Morini was the main crossing point for hundreds of thousands of
>ethnic Albanians who fled the province during the Serb crackdown, which
>accelerated after NATO started its bombing campaign March 24.
>
>Standing on the rim of Pit No. 10 at the Belacevac mine, Radakovic peered
>through binoculars and saw the KLA on the horizon.
>
>``It was a hard feeling,'' he said. ``All I could think about was how to
save
>my workers.''
>
>The rebels moved into the 4-square-mile mine from the west. Radakovic
pulled
>his employees out to the east in 2 1/2 frantic hours, saving nearly 100.
>
>But the rebels attacked a van bringing in workers for the afternoon shift.
>Three Serb miners and the driver, 31-year-old Zvonomir Stepic - coming to
>work unwarned and unaware - were kidnapped.
>
>As best as Radakovic could tell, the rebel force numbered several hundred.
>They were gloating, using the dispatcher's two-way radio at the mine
>administration to taunt the Serbs and curse them.
>
>``Go back to Serbia,'' the rebel voice would say.
>
>Serbs are a minority in this province, outnumbered before the war 9-to-1 by
>ethnic Albanians.
>
>Stepic's father, Zivojin, said his son headed off for work unconcerned,
>despite the army and police withdrawal that has put Kosovo's Serbs on edge.
>
>``We knew the army was withdrawing, but we didn't worry,'' he said. ``We
>expected NATO to protect the workers.''
>
>Serb civilians have been pouring out of areas in northern and western
Kosovo
>where the KLA is active. As many as 8,000 arrived in neighboring Montenegro
>on Sunday. But Serbs have been less fearful in Pristina, the provincial
>capital, which will be the headquarters of the NATO force.
>
>The kidnappings at the mine and Serb media reports of four separate KLA
>attacks in Pristina on Sunday could change that feeling of security.
>
>NATO is in Kosovo to assure the safe return of 860,000 ethnic Albanians
>driven from the province by Serb forces and to keep the peace. The
>international force also is supposed to demilitarize the KLA, but just how
it
>will do that is unclear.
>
>Peacekeeping troops are streaming into the province, but the job of
>establishing control is complex and time-consuming. And the KLA, which
>appears to have no plans to lay down its arms, is badly complicating their
>task - as the mine takeover shows.
>
>``It's horrible,'' Radakovic said. ``They don't respect agreements of any
>kind.''
>
>The mine manager said the Serb army withdrawal took him by surprise; he
>expected them to wait for NATO. But shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday, they
began
>pulling out of the three deserted villages bordering the mine.
>
>Just a day earlier, military and police officials in Pristina had assured
him
>there would be no security vacuum at the mine, a critical link in the
>electric power supply system that the KLA had seized for several weeks last
>year. Ten workers kidnapped in the June 22, 1998 attack have not been seen
>since.
>
>NATO took him by surprise, too.
>
>They arrived unannounced - and unaware that the mine was in rebel hands.
>
>Radakovic stumbled on the NATO team Sunday afternoon as he headed out to
>check on the tiny band of guards he'd deployed on a ridge between the
>KLA-controlled Belacevac and its sister mine, Dobro Selo.
>
>He was stunned. He was thrilled. He thought maybe he'd get his mine back.
>Maybe there was hope for the kidnapped workers.
>
>But the NATO force, four Royal Canadian armored vehicles, weren't there to
>recapture anything from the KLA or take away their guns. Their job was
>reconnaissance. ``They sent us here because it is high ground and we can
see
>a lot,'' Lt. Chris Hunt explained.
>
>Radakovic briefed Hunt on the situation, pointing down the valley to the
KLA
>positions in the distance.
>
>``We'll try to get more troops over this way,'' Hunt told him. ``But
>everything's stretched pretty thin right now.''
>
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