Serbs, UN clash in Kosovo
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Four years ago this week, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3803, destroyed villages, and drove over four thousand people out of their homes. NATO troops occupying the province cowered before the rampage, with a few honorable exceptions. Claiming their responsibility was to protect “people, not property,” they would evacuate the Serbs, and then watch their villages and churches burn. The pogrom lasted for four days; only when American troops were brought out to protect a Serb enclave did the Albanians stop.
Four years hence, none of the 30,000 Albanians involved in the pogrom has faced any sort of legal sanction. Quite the contrary, their three-day rampage across the province, compared to “Kristallnacht,” became a justification for giving Kosovo to the Albanians as an “independent” state: March 17, 2004 led directly to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3496.The very same Western media that willingly cheered on the NATO invasion and occupation of the Serbian province in 1999, reported on the pogrom in a downright shameful manner. Organized attacks on Serb civilians became “clashes” and “violence”; many also accepted as fact the blood libel presented at the start of the pogrom, that Serbs had caused the drowning of Albanian children in the Ibar river. (The drowning story originated from a professional KLA propagandist, Halit Barani.) Testifying both to the awesome power of deceit and the almost limitless gullibility of the public, the media blitz that followed the pogrom completely shifted perspectives, proclaiming Albanians the victims – of Western neglect and frustration. Far from revealing the truth about Kosovo, the pogrom was used to edify the lie; efforts that culminated in the declaration of dependence last month can be traced directly to the policy offensive in the aftermath of March 2004.
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