KOSOVO FACTS



  • In a recent interview with Charlie Rose on 4/12/99, Henry Kissinger said that there had been 2000 deaths (both Serbian and Albanian) in Kosovo over the last year - prior to the NATO bombing. He said that, although that was not good - it was to be expected given the history of terrorism and fighting between the Albanian terrorists and the Serbian police. (Transcript available at www.800-ALL-NEWS.com)

  • The Rambouillet agreement written by NATO to solve this problem required a complete surrender of Kosovo to NATO military troops who would have unrestricted access to all air, water, and land facilities in the FRY while not being accountable to Yugoslavian law (Appendix B: http://www.suc.org/kosovo_crisis/documents/)

  • According to Richard Holbrooke who was interviewed on the Charlie Rose show on 4/6/99, the Rambouillet agreement was delivered to Yugoslavia as an ultimatum - either sign this or we will bomb your country. (Transcript available at www.800-ALL-NEWS.com)

  • The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia broke International Law and side-stepped the role of the United Nation's security council to approve any military action against a soveirgn nation (www.un.org/geninfo/ir/charter/charter.htm)

  • NATO bombed Yugoslavia as they were in the process of discussing NATO's new charter from being defensive in nature - to offensive (http://www.unausa.org/issues/sc/399rtables.htm)

  • The Role of the Tribunal in Hague is to investigate war crimes such as genocide and atrocities. By continuing the bombing and not allowing the United Nations to have a presence in Kosovo - NATO is not only impeding that process - but they are also allowing any possible war crimes to continue. The peace proposal introduced by Yugoslavia and Russia yesterday would allow for this international presence.

  • Kosovo was given its autonomy in 1945 by Tito in order to weaken Serbia

  • NATO charter states that it's a defensive alliance. NATO doesn't have the legal right to take offensive action against a sovereign non-NATO country.

  • Serbs have no objection in giving Kosovo Albanians autonomy as long as it remains a part of Yugoslavia (FRY). However, the Rambouillet Peace Agreement provided the Kosovo Albanians a referendum after 3 years of autonomy within FRY, giving the Albanians of Kosovo a legal right to secede and later merge with Albania.

  • The October an agreement between the Serbian president Milosevic and Richard Holbrok has been broken and NATO was building up troops to intervene in Yugoslavia.

  • Comparissons between Milosevic and Hitler are not realistic since Milosevic has never attacked any of his neighbours. AT the time of the war in Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia, these republics were part of Yugoslavia (SFRJ). They were not invaded but chose to secede militarily from SFRJ. Both the U.S. and Germany were both signatories of the Helsinki Accords. So why did the U.S. and Germany "convince" the remaining NATO counties to recognize the illegal secession of Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia? Serbs living in these 3 republics one day found themselves living in a country they didn't choose to live in and had no say.

  • Albanian persecution of Serbs in Kosovo was brought to the attention of the UN in the 1980's but the UN concluded that Kosovo is a part of Yugoslavia and any problems in Kosovo are an internal matter. Serbs live in Kosovo since the 7th century. They formed their first Kingdom there in the 10th century. Since then, Kosovo is the spiritual center of Serbdom. There are more than 1200 monasteries and churches in Kosovo.

  • Senator Pat Roberts, head of the Senate Intelligence commitee, stated that the US has concrete proof that the KLA is known to have ties with Osama bin Laden, to be "extremely" communist and to be involved in drug trafficing.

  • Many Serbs civilians and clergy are fleeing form the NATO bombing and fighting between the KLA and the Yugoslav security forces in Kosovo.

  • After the NATO bombing started, Hachim Taqi (indicted for the murder of a police officer), head of the KLA, has asked Albanians to leave Kosovo for neighbouring countries.

  • Birthrate of Albanians in Kosovo has been the highest in Europe. At present rate they would become a majority in Yugoslavia in 20 years. The biggest silver mining in Europe is located in Kosovo.

  • Kosovo is the issue of sovereignty, not of autonomy.

Census results in Kosovo since 1948

Year Serbs Albanians
1948 171,911 498,242
1953 189,869 524,559
1961 227,016 646,605
1971 228,264 916,168
1981 209,497 1,226,736
1991 194,190 1,596,072*
(* the data for this census is an estimate since the Albanians boycotted the census)
Others (?)
1948 543,795
1953 588,411
1961 624,985
1971 626,789
1981 531,502
Kosovo - Albanian Terrorism

Albanian terrorism after Milosevic-Holbrooke accord

1999
  Civilians
  Police
1998
  Civilians
  Army
  Police

Others

http://www.informinc.co.uk/ITN-vs-LM/index.html
"The other central issue at stake in the case is the rewriting of history. For five years, the misleading ITN pictures of emaciated Bosnian Muslims apparently encircled by a barbed wire fence at Trnopolje camp have been used around the world as the proof that the Bosnian Serbs ran Nazi-style 'concentration camps', or 'death camps' as Pulitzer prizewinner Roy Gutman called them." Mick Hume

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/ddj/Racak/Tiker/RacakFile.html
"The events in the Kosovo village of Racak marked the beginning of the year. The stories from the Sarajevo marketplace of Markale and from Vase Miskina Street were repeated. The scenario was almost completely identical. The Serbs need to be accused of misdeeds and a massacre of civilians in order to find justification for their renewed punishment. In the first two cases, the world learned the truth too late, only after the Serbs had already been punished for something that they did not do. In the hope that we have learned something from previously lost battles in the media war, we have prepared for the readers of LID a special report, "The Racak File", in which we will attempt, on the basis of sources available to us, to unmask the initiators behind the new conspiracy against the Serbian people."