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Multicultural Kosovo: US Police Officers Killed by UN Forces
Written by alex palamedes
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: Three UN police officers - two American women and a
Jordanian - were killed in northern Kosovo and 11 others were injured after
a quarrel between Anglo-Saxon and Arab UN officers about US policy in the
middle east led to an exchange of gunfire.
Last month the province displayed its multicultural fuctioning as ethnic
majority Albanian muslims lit candles in over 30 Serb Orthodox churches to
mark the Serb rescue of a drowning Albanian child, despite the then UN
police spokesman Derek Chappell's insistence that Serbs were not involved in
the incident.
"Seven victims of the shooting, (all of them) UN police, arrived at the
hospital, six of them were seriously injured," Milan Ivanovic, the deputy
director of the hospital in Serb north of the ethnically-divided town said.
"An American woman died immediately from her wounds, four others are in the
operation room," he told reporters. "The injured were hit in the chest or
the abdomen, four of them are women and two are men, one an Australian
national."
"Maybe this began spontaneously but, after the beginning, certain extremist
groups had an opportunity to orchestrate," said Harri Holkeri, the UN
representative who is the chief administrator of Kosovo. Using his now
customary breathless rhetoric, he said that a multi-ethnic police force,
like society in general, could function even when its members held divergent
cultural, political and religious views. The only exception he knew of was
wealthy Cyprus, where ethnic Turks and Greeks had too much in common for the
international community to permit them to live in a fully unified state.
"This attack was organised," a U.S. policeman guarding the wounded at
Mitrovica hospital told Reuters. "I'm sorry that none of the services was
able to prevent it..." he added, without elaborating on who might have
organised an attack, or why.
"Everything started when the Middle Eastern guys told the American police
officers that the US has occupied Iraq like every other country.
The Americans were pissed off by these accusations," reported an Anglo-Saxon
policeman. "Suddenly one Jordanian started shooting." He expressed
bewilderment at the Jordanians' hostility in the light of recent progress
towards peace in the middle east made by President Bush and Israel's Sharon.
The Serbian news agency Beta quoted anonymous sources saying that four
Jordanian nationals working as UN police officers had been arrested after
the incident and were being questioned at UN police heaquarters south of
Kosovska Mitrovica.
Last month a UN police officer was killed in a shoot-out with unknown
assailants speaking Serbian with an Albanian accent. The number of UN
policemen killed by Albanian assailants has fuelled concerns from the
international community about a backlash by Albanians determined to press
their demand for independence from NATO five years after NATO drove Serb
forces from the province. After the murders of thousands of remaining Serbs,
antifascist Albanians and other minority groups, Belgrade, home to 100,000
ethnic Albanians, is now pushing for autonomy or partition. Its requests,
however, have been rebutted by the UN, the EU, and the USA, as they have
been since 1996 when first proposed by the Milosevic regime.
Lieutenant-Colonel Jim Moran, a spokesman for the peacekeeping force KFOR,
again declared: "I don't think we will have any more problems." One Albanian
translator working for KFOR echoed his remarks claiming, "I just want to
kill all Serbs and their families."
Following President Bush's comments on Iraqi WMD, Lieutenant-Colonel Moran
added that he happenned to believe mass graves would still be found in
Kosovo. At that point, the wisdom of maintaining huge US military bases in
Kosovo and Bosnia would be made clear. In the past, American intelligence
agents like William Walker may have facilitated the fabrication of reports
of death camps, massacres, and the use of Albanian children as blood banks
for the Yugoslav Army, but the European press and the American people should
keep faith in the principle of humanitarian intervention. Even radical
leftist groups had been fooled into claiming bombing Yugoslavia worsened
rather than precipated population flight from Kosovo. Recent events in
Fallujah demonstrated that people spontaneously flee bombs.
French intellectuals, marking a shift from their 1990s support of American
intervention in Yugoslavia, are now predicting the demise of the American
Empire. "It was all lies," said Pierre-Marie Gallois, a retired general and
close adviser to the de Gaulle regime. "In order to build their empire,
states had to be destroyed," Gallois adds, which explains why the United
States was set on undermining the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. France should
rebuke the Germans and the Americans, and join with "our traditional
allies," Russia and Serbia.
The White House will issue a statement later today. The President, a
spokesman said, has not been woken. The Jordanian stock market is expected
to fall dramatically when it re-opens on Monday.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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