Originally posted by Razor
No it's not China at all nor it is Russia. We got even better sources.
Special forces were the last resort. And first of all, we wouldn't have sent them in if the KLA wouldn't have started first. Albanians had everything they needed. Schools on Albanian , media on Alb, freedom of speech, free communication in their language (noone pushed them to just talk Serbian). And what did they want? They wanted to take Kosovo from us and they knew that we wouldn't aprove it. Then they decided to strat a terrorsit action. I allready linked them to Al Qaida and a drug smugling (but I mentioned that a long time ago). They wanted a Kosovo that was clean of Serbs and if you wanna talk about ethnic clensing, then go ahead. KLA cleansed Kosovo of Serbs, Not Milosevic of Albanians so accept that. Just compare the numbers. There are over 2 million albanians in kosovo and less than 100 000 Serbs. So who is the one who is clensed? Come on!
There has never been and there will never be a terrorist group in Yugoslavia. We have a rule there. We never attack anyone (unlike UK and USA
). We just deffend what is ours. If you didn't know, Milosevic was overthrown. I never said he was a good man. He did bad things and the Serbian people couldn't tollerate his tyrany. It is not the Kosovo problem that pissed us off. It was the fact that he robbed us and many lived in missery. That's why we overthrew him. And of course, our actions in Kosovo against KLA are absolutely approved. You can't negotiate with terrorsits. We tryed, but it didn't work. When we realzied that, special forces went there and eliminated them just as any other country would do if they were in that situation. Of course, if your country was attacked like that, noone would hessitate to call up SFs. But of course, I bet that you won't listen to me (even though I am telling you what is true), so I will not say anything else here on this issue. Rictor tryed hard to convince you that we are the good guys, KLA is not. I see he gave up, and I will do the same. You are unreasonable and I find it impossible to reach you in any way. Go ahead, ask any reasonable Serb and he/she will tell you the same thing as I did.
Answer the question. can you justify the attmepted ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians? The ethnic mix of Kosovo is of no relevance when you're sending in troops. If the Yuoglsav army had been attacking the KLA only, there would have been no reason for NATO to intervene?
If you are willing to aknowledge that Milosevic was an evil man, and a tyrant, why can't you accept that he was willing to try and eliminate an entire ethnic group that was causing him problems?
And on the subject of Yugoslav terrorists, I can give a very famour Serbian terrorist group- the Black Hand - who were partially responsible for the first world war. They were dedicated to the creation of a greater Serbia - not entirely different from the KLA's aims... if Serbia was still part of the 'old' Yugoslavia, would it still be a problem?
You're suggesting that Serbians are somehow 'better' than the rest of humanity now? That the Serbian ethnic group / nationality is somehow immune to creating the sort of criminals / nutters that become terrorists? Would you not say that the assassination of Djindjic could not be construed as a terrorist act aimed at destabilisation the reconstruction of Serbia & M? Or that the ethnic cleansing during the civil war could not also be construed as a form of politically motivated, state sponsored terrorism?
Fianlly, I'm not even sure that the Kosovo Albanians did have the fredoms you say.... I'm sure I remeber part of Milosevic's war crimes summons related to the removal of the 'devolution' (partial autonomy) of Kosovo 'state' when it was still aprt of Yugoslavia, and the rmeoval of items such as personal identification. Although I could be wrong on this- it is only a vague memory. But it's npothing special to be allowed to have your own language, schools and media. All 4 'kingdoms' of the UK (Wales,England, SCotland, N.Ireland) have this, and it's never fuelled any problems between our 'peoples'.