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The title is not mine, but it captures entirely the idea
that I want to explain. Because the indepence of Kosovo,
declared unilateraly on February 17, against Resolution
1244 of the UN [*], is the final step in the process of
“stealing Kosovo”. I have thought wether to use this title
or another more dramatic, “ The last two serbs in
Kriljevo” [*]; but it wouldn't be so graphical.
TITO
MILOSEVIC
(...)
Equal and harmonious relations among Yugoslav peoples
are a necessary condition for the existence of Yugoslavia
and for it to find its way out of the crisis and, in
particular, they are a necessary condition for its
economic and social prosperity."
UCK
"And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride."
Bob Dylan & Jacques Levy, "Hurricane"
But why did the western mass media take part in this
farce? Is it so crazy to think that the western media hid
one part of the truth to the public opinion? The point is
that it was not the first time that the western media
took part in a campaign to justify one war in the eyes of
the public opinion.
The war of Bosnia was not the first time that the Mass
Media were used to create the proper feeling among the
voters towards a militar campaign. As explained in the
documentary "Weapons of mass deception" [*].
And even in the case of the first Gulf War "How the
public relations industry sold the Gulf War to the US",
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton [Part1][Part2].
RACAK
The next morning, the press and the KVM came to see
the damage caused by the fighting. It was at this
moment that, guided by the armed KLA fighters who
had recaptured the village, they discovered the ditch
where a score of bodies were piled up, almost
exclusively men. At midday, the chief of the KVM in
person, the American diplomat William Walker, arrived
on the spot and declared his indignation at the
atrocities committed by “the Serb police forces and the
Yugoslav army”.
The account by two journalists of Associated Press TV
television (APTV) who filmed the police operation in
Racak contradicts this tale. When at 10:00 they entered
the village in the wake of a police armoured vehicle,
the village was nearly deserted. They advanced through
the streets under fire from KLA fighters lying in ambush
in the woods above the village. The exchange of fire
continued throughout the operation, with more or less
intensity. The main fighting took place in the woods.
The Albanians who had fled the village when the first
Serb shells were fired at dawn tried to escape. There
they ran into Serbian police who had surrounded the
village. The KLA was trapped in between. (Christophe
Chatelot: "Were the Racak dead really coldly
massacred?", Le Monde, 21st January 1999) [*][*][*][*]
From left to right: Hasim Thaçi, financed the KLA by trafficking with
heroine and cocaine [*], present Prime Minister of Kosovo; Bernard
Kouchner, former French Foreign Affairs Minister [* ], was the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head, United
Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), between
1999 and 2001 [*]; General Mike Jackson, who took part in the in the
repression against the catholic community in the Bloody Sunday [*];
Agim Çeku, responsible for war crimes against the serbs of Krajina
[*], including the massacre of Medak; and Wesley Clark [*].
On 10 March 2006 Agim Çeku was elected Prime Minister
of Kosovo by the Kosovo Assembly. After being sworn in,
he declared his support for Kosovo independence (…).
Çeku's appointment was backed by former Prime
Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned in early 2005
after the ICTY had indicted him for war crimes. [*]
U.N. ADMINISTRATION
After the end of the war, the UCK tried to expand the
war to other regions of Serbia and FRYM [*]. Meanwhile
the crimes of the UCK against serbs went on [*][HRW].
On 2005, the Prime Minister and ex-leader of the UCK,
Ramush Haradinaj, was accused of War Crimes.
From the begining there was one point that could never
be tolerated: any witness who agreeded to testify agains
Milosevic was given inmunity for any crimes he declared
having commited, given a new identity, as declared by
Captain Dragan "They give me this piece of paper that
says that anything that I might said, can not be used
against me. Then I think, Jesus, If I am a war criminal, I
have killed so many people (...) If I declare he made me
do that, they can not use that against me...But that
they would use my statement as an evidence against
Milosevic" [*]; the paper red exactly:
"This is to confirm a commitment of the part of the
prosecutor that any conversation or statement you will
make during the course of your preparation to testify as
a witness in the case of Prosecutor against Milosevic will
not be used against you." [*]
Only these important facts would lead any trial and the
prosecution to investigation, but nothing of that
happened. Luckily for the prosecution Milosevic died
before the veredict, which made the case close before
end. The trial was set up not to judge Milosevic, but to
condemn him. As the trial went on, it was more and
more evident that the evidences against him were really
weak. That's why Milosevic's death was really convenient
for the Prosecution. Milosevic was an ill man, but it
seems rather strange that a man known to have heart
problems, the most important prisoner of Europe,
probably of the world, and is being treated for his
cardiac problems, dies of a heart attack.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
On February 17, 2008, the Assembly of Kosovo, declared
unilaterally the independence. The predictable next step
will be the integration into Albania, to finally form the
Great Albania. This is confirmed by the declaration of
President of the Kosovo Parliament, Jakup Krasniqi, in
his visit to Albania on the fall of 2008 [*].
CONCLUSIONS
The main issue about the war of Kosovo is how the public
was misleaded by the politicians and the mass media.
The most evident fact is how the chronology was
adapted to justify the NATO's interests. It is possible to
trace the real order of the events in any newspaper's
library, but when they have summarized the chronology
they have always presented the bombing as a
consequence of the ethnic cleansing, when it is totally
the opposite: the ethnic cleansing was a consequence of
(or at least it was made possible by) NATO's bombing of
Serbia (including Kosovo).