This is simply a lie and I really thought that most of the "radicals" already knew it. The mass exodus- whatever the cause, we still do not know as all the evidence used for the one-sided, illegal and non-UN approved "trials" comes from Nato- aside from all these gaping holes, you nthen have to skip being critical of this and move onto simply rewriting history in your own mind.
Racak has been admitted to be a spoof- even on the major bourgeois TV media. Beyond that, we know nothing but what the mildly biased people who launched the war have to say, and finally we have to allow ourselves to forget that the people who were not in Kosovo after the bombings started were just that- people who left Kosovo after the bombings started.
Whether one has the same basic position on the SPS governance as I do, that is a legally elected and the most democratic (and semi-socialistic) state in the Former Yugoslavia, one can despise Miloseivic all they want- but their is no excuse for beingf uncritical and swallowing the whole line of Nato. Nato *is* the greater enemy and played out an entire story and re-tell it to us everytime they feel the need.
were dismissed as
> minor repression, because the Kosovars were seen as the "wrong" victims.
No, that Nato was seen as the root cause, and that the "independence movement" was totally 100% at the behest and need of America and Germany for support and after thew war could not even win an election (the democratic league of Ibrahim Rugova won the first administrative ballot despite the climate of mass intimidation and repression. The KLA's Kosovo has been a total nightmare, expelling 98% of the Serbs- all the Jews and nearly all the Roma, hungarians, Goransis (sp?), etc.etc. and the "leadership" of the "resistance" could not even win the support of who was left. The country is littered in brothels, American and other troops visiting Kosovar women for sex, restaurants paying homage to Adolf Hitler, anti-communist witchhunts....
The list of atrocities committed since the war is immense. Get critical and stop swallowing the line on "Kosovar independence". The whole region is a virtual armed camp (the KLA still run the country with "democratic figure heads being carted around by "protection units"). We need to go beyond the obvious- that for example women live miserably under the Taleban and look at who is doing the "liberating"- and their track record for humanitarianism (if one is fool enough to think of a single venture by Western powers that was at all inkling towards "help").
literally multiple hundreds of thousands have been expelled, a uni-ethnic pseudo fascist state has been created in Kosovo- and Croatia carried out the largest single ethnic cleansing and murder campaign with "Operation Storm" in 1995. Unfortunately some people want to trust Jamie Shea to tell them what happened to who where.
Macdonald