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<<And, so: just what is the exact position on 'ethnic cleansing'?>>
>From TheIndependent (UK)
> Peace in the Balkans - While Nato squabbles and the Serbs flee,
> anarchy fills Kosovo's vacuum
>
> Robert Fisk in Pristina
>
> So, Wag the Dog was a documentary. "The Russians are coming," a
> Yugoslav army captain announced to the coffee- drinkers on the Corso
> yesterday. They roared in delight and disbelief. But it was quite
> beyond their comprehension that Nato forces would delay their own
> entry into Kosovo over an infantile squabble about whose soldiers
> should cross the frontier first. And it was, of course, the innocent
> who had to pay the price for this farce.
>
> Outside the Catholic church, an Albanian priest shook his head in
> disbelief. "Why hasn't Nato come?" he pleaded. "Things here are very,
> very bad." On the other side of the hill, a clutch of Albanian homes
> were smouldering. And in the streets of Pristina yesterday there were
> too many men with guns. One of them walked into the restaurant of the
> Grand Hotel on Thursday night and threatened to kill the diners. A
> hundred KLA captives were seen wandering through the city, still
> dressed in their black prison uniforms. And the roads around Kosovo's
> capital were lined with civilian cars as the Serbs of Prizren and
> Djakovica - trusting in a KLA ceasefire - abandoned their cities for
> northern Serbia.
>
> "It's what Nato wants," Yugoslav volunteer Private Stefan said with
> contempt when I came across him near the Army Club. "They are delaying
> so that the Serbs will leave and give them an Albanian-only Kosovo.
> Nato is 'cleansing' us with their delays." Did I have the nerve to
> explain that no, really, General Clark and General "Mike" were arguing
> like children about who goes first? I murmured something I'd heard on
> the BBC about "logistics difficulties" and Pte Stefan snorted with
> contempt.
>
> Yet as Nato hesitated - only to find the Russians stealing their
> thunder - Kosovo was moving towards just the kind of anarchy Nato had
> promised to prevent. When I drove the road north to Merdare yesterday,
> the villages were burning - either Serb homes set alight by their
> departing owners or Albanian property destroyed by Serb gunmen - while
> the Third Army's withdrawal sucked thousands of panic-stricken
> civilians into its wake.
>
> The old city of Prizren is almost entirely empty of its Serb
> inhabitants - almost every car I saw bore a Prizren or Djakovica
> number-plate - while the Serb citizens of Pristina are turning with
> bitterness against their own leaders. At a meeting of civilians called
> to halt the exodus, a tall man in spectacles screamed at his fellow
> Serbs: "You've been fucked by Tito and by Milosevic - may their
> descendants have bone cancer for 12 generations."
>
> Meanwhile, along the highway out of Pristina appeared the kind of men
> we had hoped not to see. There were tall militiamen with long hair,
> and gunmen in black shirts, and even the departing Yugoslav troops now
> displayed an unhappy combination of regular soldiers in army uniform
> and bearded men in military vehicles with slouch hats or cloths wound
> round their heads.
>
> One soldier was waving a beer bottle in the air. Several were driving
> tractors among the army convoys, pulling trailers covered with
> tarpaulins. Who, I wonder, owned the tractors?
>
> The convoys themselves were a Boy's Own of Russian weaponry - BMP
> armoured vehicles tracked radar-guided anti-aircraft guns and
> batteries of white-tipped Sam-6 missiles along with Frog
> ground-to-ground rockets. And yet again, not a single one had been
> scratched by Nato bombs. Some of the Sam-6 racks were empty - the
> missiles must have been fired at Nato planes - and many of them were
> still covered with the branches of the fir trees with which they had
> been camouflaged during the war. Several guns had been draped with
> flowers, one anti-aircraft battery sprouting dark red roses from its
> barrels.
>
> But while the Serbs enjoyed Moscow's temerity in tweaking Nato's ego,
> they waited in vain for the Russians to show up. It mattered little to
> the families driving north, towing trailers piled with sitting-room
> furniture and beds. Over the highway a new banner has been raised.
> "The only road is the road to Kosovo," it says. But yesterday the only
> road was the road out of Kosovo - and the Serbs were using it to flee
> the land in which they have lived for generations.
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