KK-Forum,
Diana Johnstone har nettopp skrevet en artikkel om OSSE-rapportene "As Seen
as Told" på
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/osce.htm
En smakebit:
"... Clearly, the primary aim of the UÇK was never to defend ethnic
Albanian civilians from Serbian persecution, as its apologists have
claimed, but to get NATO to defeat the Serbs on behalf of the UÇK. At the
same time, the UÇK was fighting a different sort of war: the civil war for
full control of the Albanian population of Kosovo. This required, first,
destroying contacts between Serbs and Albanians by killing individuals who
served as bridges between the two communities; and second, gaining full
control of the Albanian community by intimidating or even murdering
individuals representing a political alternative to the UÇK. "In some cases
there was suspicion that UÇK forces killed not only moderate Kosovo
Albanians but also Serbs who were well liked by both communities", the
Report acknowledges (p.137). For example, on 17 December 1998, the Serb
deputy mayor of Kosovo Polje, "a moderate Kosovo Serb politician who had
done much to improve social conditions in his area", was abducted and
murdered. In this most sensitive heart of the civil war, the UÇK enjoyed
clear military superiority. Like it or not, Albanians who were ready to
accept coexistence with Serbs or who supported non-UÇK political options
were in fact dependent on the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police for
protection, as were all non-Albanian civilians. Once the UÇK was able to
get NATO to knock out Serbian state power, the UÇK could easily "mop up"
its civilian opposition -- which it proceeded to do, with KFOR standing by,
apparently disoriented or complicit. This was the most significant part of
the civil war, which remained largely invisible to the public in NATO
countries in the months leading to the war...."
Knut Rognes
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