-Caveat Lector- The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU Is Clinton Creating the First Drug Dealer, Terrorist State in Europe? Isn't it Time for the US Media to Print some of the Truth About "Albanian Autonomy?" By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) June 15, 1999 One of my readers, Linda H., wrote today: "I have been reading you now for about a year. So many times I find myself tearing my hair out and saying, "That can't be true, surely someone else would be saying it too!" Especially the last two and a half months. Unfortunately for my peace of mind, you have a tendency to quote other sources, such as news reports from other countries, or the World Almanac for instance, instead of making wholly unsupported statements. I look at what you say, and I can't help seeing where you are coming from. "During WWII, there were people who were trying to speak an unpopular truth we just didn't want to hear. We called them alarmists, or accused them of paranoia, or seeing bogey-men where they didn't exist. Too bad we didn't listen sooner." I know just how Linda feels. That's just exactly how I feel time, after time, when I research an issue and find that what is being SAID by the so-called media, or sometimes, left totally UNSAID is clearly designed to totally mislead the public. The real story behind the Serbs fleeing Kosovo is not over what SERBS have done - it's over what ALBANIANS have done for years to Serbs. Before the bombing started, I asked what any competent journalist SHOULD have asked - "Who is the KLA and how are they being financed?" Albania is the poorest nation in Europe and it's Stalinist communist government basically collapsed shortly after the USSR disintegrated. I found, to my surprise, that the KLA is a large, and wealthy drug cartel that controls most of the Heroin sales throughout Europe - supplying up to 90% of the Heroin to Scandinavian countries, for example. Now I am watching so-called journalists reporting while surrounded by KLA members or supporters, with undisguised smugness that the Serbs are now "fleeing Kosovo for the first time, while the Albanians jeer." On Fox News last night I watched a group of armed Albanians shooting their weapons in the air, while mugging for the cameras in what must have been in full view of the NATO "peacekeepers." The day before, a Serb who shot into the air was promptly shot and killed by German peacekeepers, according to reports from the scene. What should be obvious at this point is that the Clinton-Gore Administration has created a situation in Kosovo which will require a very long term commitment on the part of the United States. It isn't just Serbs who are leaving. Other ethnic groups, Montenegrins and Gypsies, seeing what certainly appears to be a commitment on the part of NATO and the media to create an Albanian reservation in the heart of the Serbian Orthodox Church's sacred territory, are fleeing also. Why? And, why is the dominant media not reporting what is really going on? One of the sites (http://www.beograd.com) which has developed a network of first-hand reporters from Kosovo reports today: ****** According to the info I am receiving from my friends and relatives who left Pec, only 2 Serbian priests, Budo and Miljko, stayed in the town, The town is on fire. There are no more Serbs and Montenegrins there. Mass exodus of Serbs toward Belgrade is expected. ******** 01:29 KLA stopped the Serbian refugee convoy and killed the brothers Slavisa and Bogdan Krstic at the spot. ******** AFP reports from Rozaje that more than 13,000 members of non-Albanian minorities (Serbs, Montenegrins, Gypsies, Moslems, and others) arrived to Monete Negro. Serbian leader from Kosovo, Mr. Trajkovic is quoted saying that over 30,000 people have fled Kosovo from the Albanians so far. ******* Sky News - NATO entered Pec. They met a convoy of YU Army, 5 km long, on the road. They are wondering how come the tanks and other arms are not even scratched, while they were told they have destroyed all tanks in Kosovo. What Americans are hearing, of course, from their TV screens is that the Serbs are leaving because they "feel guilty" for participating in "ethnic cleansing" of Albanians before and during the bombing. What is simply not being reported is the history - the recent history - of KLA terrorism against Serbs which created the increasingly "ethnically pure" Albanian majority in Kosovo. It is a story quite similar to the change of ethnicity in many large American cities, in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s - when the "white flight" resulted in all black inner cities. While the popular liberal analysis of "white flight" is to chalk it up to white bigotry, in my family, white flight was a matter of self-preservation. My brother and his family ended up as about the only white person in the South Chicago neighborhood where he had purchased a home in the early 1950s. He held on for years, while trying to overlook the fact that his sons experienced almost daily beatings from black kids who had been taught that whites were responsible for all their failures in school and work. He finally moved. The fact of the matter is the Serbs are leaving because they've already experienced "Albanian autonomy" in Kosovo under the communist dictator, Tito, from 1974-1989. And in depth study of Kosovo's demographics in 1971 showed that, in Pristina for example, which is now occupied by NATO troops and apparently preparing for "Albanian" control, 36% of the population were Serbs and Montenegrins. In March, the non-Albanian population was said to be 10%. During the period of "Albanian autonomy" which Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton want restored to its 1980 level, for Kosovo, all other groups, who became minorities, were discriminated against. This is why the peace agreement that Milosevic signed emphasized equality for ALL residents of Kosovo - not just the Albanians. That part of the peace agreement at this point is obviously not being observed. Ruza Petrovic and Marina Blagojevic in an in depth study entitled: The Migration of Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo and Metohija, documents the discrimination against the Serbs by asking in depth questions of Serbs who had fled Albanian "autonomy." The study had numerous examples of discrimination similar to the following: "One respondent, for instance, said that his Albanian neighbor had warned him before the 1981 demonstrations to steer clear, not to go alone, because he was on a list of Serbs and Montenegrins who were to be eliminated, and the building in which the household head worked was planned to be blown sky-high The respondent claims that many people on that list disappeared or were "accidently" hit by cars and died. Another respondent says that his Albanian friends would warn him before every riot so that he could lie low. But, public displays of friendship toward Serbs and Montenegrins were dangerous for the Albanians themselves. One household head related how an Albanian neighbor had stopped his house from being stoned but had later had trouble with his compatriots and the authorities. In another instance, when some Serbs were fired from their jobs, their friend, an Albanian, was fired too, 'Just because he had been their friend,' said another respondent." So, what is developing in Kosovo is the Clinton-Gore administration setting up a segregated, terrorist run society, in which the majority will eliminate all minorities, while talking endlessly about "minority rights" to the media in America. The study quoted one long-term resident Serb or Montenegrin as saying: "I have to admit that the better educated and more cultured Albanian inhabitants behaved correctly. We had good neighbors, and my brother had good friends. The old-timers are good people, the immigrants are primitive, all they know how to do is fight, they reach for their knives at the drop of a hat. My father used to be friends with the Albanians, they were like brothers, true friends, they attended each other's weddings and slavas. "You didn't ask about the settlement of Albanians from Albania. Whole families settled. Our society gave these families enormous properties and houses (property and houses that belonged to Serbian and Montenegrin families). The objective was to have one such family in every village, and then later they brought over their brothers and friends. These same emigrants fostered hate and unrest in Kosovo. They got rich on it." During the period of time when Albanians had full autonomy, there was a mass exodus of Serbs and Montenegrins from the province - due to the violent behavior and discrimination the Albanians practiced towards women and children. The study quoted Serbs and Montenegrins who had fled the province as follows: "Prior to the 1981 demonstrations, every Serbian house in Podujevo was marked with a cross so that they would know where to attack. The demonstrators stoned the house, broke all the windows, completely demolished my workshop. They started persecuting us and forcing us to move away, they moved the boundary markers and usurped the land at will, they wanted all the Serbs to move out and for us to leave them our riches. The surveyor said how the boundary went, but that didn't help. - People in the village knew exactly who was about to move out. Albanians drew up a plan, and the Serbs had not a clue. An Albanian would appear, knock on the door and say: 'When you move out, I'm buying your house'. Whether you wanted to or not, you had to move away. - Everything is done deliberately. Serbs are blackmailed, driven off their property, they are given rock bottom prices for it. But, it's not just the material advantage; for some strategic areas the Albanians pay whatever the asking price is, they pay billions, which means that their only goal is to drive Serbs away however they can. - Before we moved away, we hadn't worked the land for three years because the Albanians picked our harvest. Our entire property (10 hectares of arable land and the house) was left to the whims of the Albanians, they destroy our houses, cut up our orchards, use our meadows, our property, and there's no compensation from either them or the authorities. (The last Serbs that moved out of the settlement; nobody wanted to buy their property.) But, the factor that must be the most disturbing to Serbs and Montenegrins is the often repeated charge by KLA members that their women had been raped by Serbs. According to the report, murder, along with the molesting of children and rape or attempted rape, was one of the main reasons given by a number of families for moving away. One household, for instance, where the members had not had any "major clashes or troubles, decided to move away in 1969 when a relative of theirs was murdered. Ever since, the head of the household goes around armed. The murderer of his relative "was not convicted; they said there was no proof, they said it was involuntary manslaughters." The widespread attacks on Serb women and children, however, prompted many Serbs to leave Kosovo: The report quoted a number of incidences of rape including: - "A young Albanian raped my neighbor, a woman of 55. He broke into the house after midnight and raped her. One of the women who moved away described the discrimination to which women are exposed as follows: - "Serbian women in Kosovo aren't even second-class citizens, they are harrassed, raped, humiliated. The hardest thing in Kosovo is to be a woman, especially a Serbian woman. Even when it is a question of rape, different generations of Albanians have different attitudes. - "A young Albanian tried to rape my daughter, her mother took a stick and beat him up, nobody held it against her, even the boy's parents said she was right to do it. Attacks on Serbian little girls and young girls were often meant as provocations, drawing young Serbian men into conflict so as protect their friends, neighbors or even unknown girls. One of the keys to understanding the emigration of Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo is the threat to their children. The selectiveness of the discrimination process is reflected in the fact that the weakest and most vulnerable were the most exposed to it. Some of the situations described in the report by those who left Kosovo because of discrimination by the Albanians included: - We were separated into classes at school, but during recess we stayed in the classroom, because they deliberately provoked incidents, and we were afraid. - They harrassed children at every step, they didn't dare go out during recess, they often came back with their heads smashed. - Fights. They grabbed our things. I rode a bike to school and they kept taking it away from me. Once they beat me on the head with my own tire pump, another time with a rock. Slaps were a regular thing. - Things were not good between Albanian children and our own children. They're in the majority, we're in the minority. They beat up children. Then the child doesn't want to go to school, his grades suffer. - Fights, arguments, belittling Serbian children in the streets, starting arguments, a feeling of fear, especially among female children, and all the rest. - Relations became disturbed after the 1981 demonstrations. We didn't let our children out into the street, because we were afraid something would happen to them. - I wasn't free to send the child anywhere. My children meant more to me than the property. - Our children were small. They were not allowed to leave the courtyard, because they always got beaten up if they did. Even when they were in the courtyard, if there were no adults around they would be stoned. That's why we came here. Albanian girls are not generally allowed to attend school for more than four years and are then married, in arranged marriages, at very early ages. The Albanian families are large, inasmuch as their Muslim faith does not allow birth control. In the Albanian culture, women have almost no rights. Does it seem odd that Bill Clinton would be taking such a strong stand for the Albanians? Well, not really. He own violence towards women illustrates his real opinion of the fairer sex. But, for the unsuspecting young men and women of our armed forces, who will be expected to somehow keep a peace that obviously does not exist, Kosovo could very well become a real hellhole for them. To comment: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secretary General Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Art historian DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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[CTRL] Is Clinton Creating the First Drug Dealer, Terrorist State in Europe?
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:01:51 -0700
