Today, in a town of 500,000 people, there is not a single
Serb because of the Clinton Administrations collusion with Ethnic Cleansing
Muslims in Kosovo. Billy Clinton and 'Mad' Albright were under the desk together in
silence on this issue. We don't know if Monica was there too. Sandy Berger is rumored to
have the files stuffed in his panties.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership of
trying to cleanse the region of other ethnic minorities. NATO's military chief for Eastern
Europe, Admiral Gregory Johnson, has also described the violence as "ethnic
cleansing".
The Islamic Conquest and Islamization
Serbia including Kosovo was conquered by the Islamic Ottoman Turks in 1459, Bosnia and
Herzegovina fell in 1465 and 1483 repectively. During this time Serbian Christians and
Jews, as "people of the book", became dhimmis subject to the dhimma or
protection offered to Christian and Jews in newly Islamized lands in exchange for their
lives. Dhimmi status goes back to the 7th century when the Jews at the oasis of Khaybar in
Arabia accepted the treaty offered to them by Muhammed. In exchange for their lives the
Jews forfeited ownership of their lands were forced to defer to Muslims on the street, in
business dealings and under the Shari'a law, and were forced to by heavy taxes to their
Muslim conquerers. This treaty of Khaybar became the model by which all Christian and Jews
in newly conquered lands became subject to a condition referred to by the scholar Bat
Ye'or as dhimmitude, a contraction of the two word dhimmitude and servitude. Christians
and Jews in lands under Islamic rule remained in the status of dhimmitude until the
emancipation ordered by the Ottoman Sultan in the middle of the 19th century.under
pressure from the European powers. In reality the oppression of the Christians and the
Jews in the Balkans didn't end until Serbia achieved independence in 1912 as a result of
the first Balkan war.
The understandings of the United States and its NATO allies about the history of the
Balkans unfortunately does not appear to include events prior to Tito's death in 1980, and
Milosevec's ascendancy to the Presidency of Serbia in 1987. These events have been
described above. However, as Bat Ye'or wrote, also described above, to the Serbs, the five
preceeding centuries consisted of massacres, pillage, slavery and exile of Christians on
the part of Muslims during the Islamic assault into Europe.
When Aliya Izetbegovic, the leader of the Muslim faction in Bosnia stated in 1970: There can be neither peace nor coexistence between Arabia, the cradle of Islam and
non-Islamic social and political institutions." and "The Islamic
movement must, and can, take over power as soon as it is morally and numerically so strong
that it can not only destroy the existing non- Islamic power, but also build up a new
Islamic one", it should have set off alarm bells in the Capitals of Europe.
But it didn't. In the Bosnian wars of 1992-5 Muslim, Croat (Catholic) and Serb (Orthodox)
factions fought for control of Bosnia. The United States intervened in the conflict
decisively with air power on the side of the Muslims. The result was the Dayton Peace
Accords, negotiated in Dayton, Ohio ansd signed in Paris September 14, 1995. These accords
were signed by the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The accords set up a Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
consisting of two entities: a Croation-Muslim Federation and a Republica Srpska.
The war was a gigantic miscalculation by the West. It did not expect the expulsion of a
million Kosovars from Kosovo. Instead it expected a quick capitulation by Yugoslavia. It
was tragically wrong on both counts and a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions
has occurred. The agreement to end the conflict was the best that either side could expect
to get. However, the future in Kosovo will be rocky and will require a peacekeeping force
including substantial numbers of U. S. troops for many years. No one was a winner in this
war, not Yugoslavia, not the people of Serbia, not the KLA, not Albanian Kosovars, not
Serb Kosovars, not the region where political instability has increased, not NATO, and
certainly not the United States which by virtue of the bombing had worsened not only
relationships with the governments of Russia and China but with the Russian and Chinese
people as well.
At this time the situation in the Balkans remains unsettled and dangerous. It is clear
that the the Dayton dream of a unified Bosnia has not happened and does not seem likely
to. Nor has it come to pass that Kosova has achieved its long sought goal of independence
from Serbia. The ambiguity of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 remains, leaving the
fate of Kosovo unresolved. Macedonia is increasingly destabilized by the ethnic Albanian
insurgency and the goal of a greater Albania under Muslim control is a possibility, but
not likely.
March 23, 2004
NATO secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has accused Kosovo Albanians of orchestrating
violence against minority Serbs which drove thousands from their homes. Up to 30 Serb
Orthodox churches and seven villages were torched, almost 300 houses were levelled and
some 600 people were injured when men from the ethnic Albanian majority rampaged in the
worst violence since the war.
NATO rushed fresh troops in to support the 17,000 foreign soldiers already in the
impoverished province. By the time they started arriving on Friday most of the damage had
been done.
Kosovo has been a UN protectorate since 1999, when NATO jets bombed Serbian forces and
forced them to withdraw from the province.
Since that intervention, which allowed some 200,000 ethnic Albanian refugees to return to
their homes, the equivalent number of Serbs have been driven from theirs as Albanians seek
revenge on their former oppressors.
Serbia's traditional ally Russia, while ruling out any contribution to the stepped-up
peacekeeping effort, slammed the UN and NATO for failing to protect the Slav ethnic
minority.
"The fact is that 80,000 of 350,000 inhabitants of Pristina (the Kosovo capital) used
to be Serbs. Today, in a town of 500,000 people, there is not a single Serb,"
Russian Emergency Minister Serguei Choigou said after meeting Serbian Prime Minister
Vojislav Kostunica in Belgrade and accused Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership of
trying to cleanse the region of other ethnic minorities. NATO's military chief for
Eastern Europe, Admiral Gregory Johnson, has also described the violence as "ethnic
cleansing".
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Mr. Prlincevic was President of the Jewish Community in Pristina. All members of that
community were driven out of Kosovo by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) after NATO took
over in 1999. To read the first interview we did with Mr. Prlincevic, where he describes
the nightmare of being evicted by KLA terrorists, go to http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/prlincevic.htm
NATO claims it had to bomb Yugoslavia in the Spring of 1999 and take control of Kosovo to
stop supposed 'abuse' of Albanian residents. During the bombing, the world was shown TV
footage day in and day out of Albanians. It *appeared* that they were fleeing Serbian
'abuse'. The same images were repeated, again and again.
Cedomir Prlincevic, the leading historian of Kosovo, says this was a carefully staged lie.
If you want to understand what really happened in Kosovo - which has direct bearing on
what is really happening in the West Bank, Gaza, Chechnya, and other areas - read the
interview on the web site link above.
You will notice as you read that it took me awhile to grasp what Mr. Prelincevic was
saying because I had a preconceived notion. I believed that either Albanians fled NATO
bombs OR Albanians fled Serbian abuse. Since I knew the abuse story was a lie, I assumed
Albanians fled the bombs. But I was wrong, said Mr. Prlincevic. To understand why, please
read carefully what this man has to say.
