Ny krig?

From: Knut Rognes (knrognes@online.no)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 21:02:02 MET

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    KK-Forum,

    å dømme etter rapportene i det siste ser det ut som Thaci og co prøver seg
    på det samme som sist, men nå i det såkalte 'Sør-Serbia' eller
    'Øst-Kosovo'. Jfr dette poeng fra BBC-reportasjen:

    >Ever since the Bosnian war of 1995, the KLA, seeking to capitalise on
    >popular resentment among Kosovan Albanians against the regime in Belgrade,
    >had pursued a strategy of destabilising the Serbian province of Kosovo by
    >acts of terrorism, in the hope that the US and NATO would intervene. They
    >ambushed Serb patrols and killed policemen.
    >
    >"Any armed action we undertook would bring retaliation against civilians,"
    >KLA leader Thaci explained. "We knew we were endangering a great number of
    >civilian lives." The benefits of this strategy were made plain by Dug
    >Gorani, a Kosovo Albanian negotiator not tied to the KLA: "The more
    >civilians were killed, the chances of international intervention became
    >bigger, and the KLA of course realised that. There was this foreign
    >diplomat who once told me, 'Look, unless you pass the quota of five
    >thousand deaths you'll never have anybody permanently present in Kosovo
    >from foreign diplomacy.'"

    Skitt la gå, noen sivile må lide. Men det spørs om USA/NATO vil krige mer nå.

    Knut Rognes



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