Eradication of Serbian Culture and Religion Continues in Kosovo 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? Stella Jatras http://www.citizensoldier.org/eradication.html Srpska Informativna Mreza sim@antic.org http://www.antic.org/
