My so called "claims" are
based on facts, reports and investigations, which I've even posted links to. Something YOU haven't done.
You can only maintain your position my misrepresenting the facts. Ethnic cleansing was under way in Kosova ten months before the bombing began. The Departure of the Albanians was a systematic deportation , using military units. The soldiers whom were sent to Kosova knew exactly what their aim was.
Same techniques that were used in Croatia and in Bosnia were used in Kosova;
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Concentration; Surround the area to be cleansed and after warning the resident Serbs- urging them to leave or at least mark their houses with flags- intimidate the target population with artillery fire and arbitrary executions and bring them out into the streets
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Decapitation; Execute political leaders and those capable of taking their places- lawyers, judges, public officials , writers, professors.
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Separation; Divide women, children and older men from men of "
fighting age" - 16 years to 60 years old.
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Evacuation; Transport women, children and old men to the border, expelling them into a neighboring territory or country.
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Liquidation; Execute "fighting age " men, dispose of bodies.
Now are you going to tell me that this was "random" or that they had no clue of what they were doing?
Seriously, wake up and smell the coffee. Only a blind man would close his eyes.
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What Milosevic did was that he brought amendments to the Serbian constitution. Those amendments did not take away kosovo and vojovodina autonomies. It has centralized Serbia’s power over low enforcement and judiciary system in kosovo and vojvodina.
When you mentioned it that way.Let me ask you why did you protest in 1983?
And you did not answer my questions. Did you have wrights to vote? Did you have rights to educate on your own language? Did you have university with Albanian professors? Did you have parliament? Did you have Albanian press? What did you want to merge with Albania?
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Milosevic DID revoke Kosova's and Vojvodina's autonomy in 1989.
Yes I answered all you questions. If you had read through what I wrote and the link I posted you'd notice. But I'll write it again.
When the autonomy was revoked, so were the rights which the Albanians had enjoyed since 1974.
1. Milosevic took control of the Media and TV in Kosova ( as well as the ones in Serbia ). The Albanian news papers, and the Albanians news on TV were no longer allowed.
2. Albanians were forced to leave their jobs.
3. The Albanian Language was no longer allowed to be taught in schools.
I do not sit here and make up fairy tales/stories.
Read
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Human Rights Abuses in the 1990s
Kosovo became a police state run by Belgrade. A strong Serb military presence, justified by the need to fight "Albanian secessionists," committed ongoing human rights abuses. Police violence, arbitrary detentions, and torture were common. Ethnic Albanians were arrested, detained, prosecuted, and imprisoned solely on the basis of their ethnicity, political beliefs, or membership in organizations or institutions that were banned or looked upon with disfavor by the Serbian government.13
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians were fired from government institutions and state-run enterprises under a series of discriminatory laws. Already in August 1990, the Serbian parliament had abolished the independence of the Kosovo educational system and instituted a new curriculum to be administered centrally from Belgrade. Albanian teachers were forced to sign a loyalty oath; those who refused were dismissed. Throughout 1990, the government closed most of the Albanian-language schools and, in January 1991, it stopped paying most Albanian high school teachers. By October 1991, all Albanian teachers had been fired; only fifteen Albanian professors remained at the university in Pristina, and they all taught in Serbian.
The deliberate economic and social marginalization of ethnic Albanians forced the emigration of an estimated 350,000 Albanians from the province over the next seven years. While Albanians were being forced to leave, Milosevic's government provided incentives and encouraged the settlement of Serbs in the region. In 1996, 16,000 Serb refugees from Bosnia and Croatia were settled in Kosovo, sometimes against their will.
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/undword-01.htm
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Let me ask you. Did you live beater in kosovo then albanians in albania?I think that the kosovo albanians lived and steal do, beater then albanians in albania.
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You "think" that's the key word.
If the life was better in Kosova ? Well, depends how and when.
During Tito's Yugoslavia, at least from 1974- 1980, the Albanian Kosovars had it better than those in Albania. But after Tito's death things started to get worse as the time went by.
When Milosevic came to power, that's when things really started to hit rock bottom for the Albanians in Kosova. Ever since the autonomy and the rights were revoked, the Kosovar Albanians have tried to get them back by using democratic measures, As Ibrahim Rugova was against the usage of violence to get our rights back.
Ibrahim Rugova was not called the Albanian/ Balkan Ghandi for nothing. May he rest in peace.