Posted on 07/31/2007 11:26:37 AM PDT by montyspython
Kosovo in the 1980s: Murders, Rapes, and Expulsions
By Carl Savich
July 27, 2007
I. Introduction: Ethnically Pure “Kosova”
To understand the Kosovo separatist conflict of 1998-1999, the background must be analyzed and examined. Did the Kosovo conflict emerge sui generis? What was the context and background of the conflict? To understand that, the decade before must be analyzed, the 1980s. Kosovo in the 1980s is where the conflict arose.
From 1981 to 1989, 20,000 Kosovo Serbs are estimated to have fled from Kosovo. There was a massive campaign to drive out the Kosovo Serb population through ethnic murders, rapes, attacks, beatings, desecrations of churches, cemeteries. From 1982 to 1984, 10 rapes were committed, while 11 attempted rapes were committed against Serbian women by Albanian men. In this period, 286 crimes were committed against Kosovo Serbs, while 1,249 misdemeanors were committed against Kosovo Serbs.
A Kosovo Albanian Muslim leader, Fadil Hoxha, incited Kosovo Albanians to rape Kosovo Serb women. Kosovo Albanian Muslims engaged in a systematic and planned policy or campaign to expel Kosovo Serb Christians from Kosovo. This ethnically and religious motivated campaign of genocide against Kosovo Serbs has been largely suppressed and censored in the US and the West. Through the infowar technique of “emphasis”, these human rights abuses have been de-emphasized and buried and spin doctored away.
A systematic and planned campaign of ethnic and religious terror whose goal was genocide has been erased and deleted from the historical record. How was this done? What really happened in Kosovo during the 1980s that set the stage for the Kosovo conflict of 1998-1999? Do we know? Can we know?
(Excerpt) Read more at serbianna.com ...
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Can our latest incarnation of Ronly Bonly Dipstick be far behind?
Regardless of what goes on in Kosovo, it should be left to the EU. It’s in their backyard, not ours.
Yes, the Serbian Orthodox Diocese (in America)went before Congress in the 80s pleading for help for the Serbs in Kosovo. Fields were being burned, wells poisoned and nuns raped and churches desecrated...... No help was given. Its on the record.
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