KK-Forum,
Ferskt om fransk diplomati og mye annet under Kosovo-krigen:
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/12/?c=04rouleau
Le Monde diplomatique, December 1999:
LESSONS OF WAR, French diplomacy adrift in Kosovo
by ERIC ROULEAU
Interessant er det f.eks. at
"...... the
OSCE report containing the findings of its 1,300 on-the-spot observers
from November 1998 until their withdrawal on 19 March has still not
been released. This report would have made it possible to verify the
allegation that Serbian atrocities had reached such proportions as to
warrant breaking off the diplomatic process to save the Kosovars from
genocide. The OSCE's continuing refusal to release the report can only
strengthen doubts about the truth of that allegation.
In this respect the testimony of Jacques Prod'homme, a French member
of the OSCE observer mission, is particularly interesting. Prod'homme,
who is 55, has been professionally involved in humanitarian missions
for much of his adult life. He worked for various international
organisations on missions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean before
taking up a post as a political advisor with the OSCE teams in Kosovo.
He claims that in the month leading up to the war, during which he
moved freely throughout the Pec region, neither he nor his colleagues
observed anything that could be described as systematic persecution,
either collective or individual murders, burning of houses or
deportations. More specifically, he states that "we were told about
clashes between KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army] fighters and the security
forces. Apart from that, we had occasion to investigate a total of one
armed attack and two disappearances." If this testimony is confirmed,
Nato must be held responsible for the flight of some 800,000 Kosovars,
who were trying to escape as much from the allied bombing as from the
Serbian atrocities for which the withdrawal of the OSCE observers had
cleared the way. These refugees swelled the ranks of the 200,000 who
had fled Kosovo over a period of months in 1998 and 1999, mostly
during clashes between Serbian forces and the KLA."
Knut Rognes
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