MORE KOSOVO LIES
Richard Poe
July 9, 1999

Press reports assure us that we have won a great victory in Kosovo. They say that Clinton’s air campaign has crippled Milosevic and compelled him to accept our terms. They say that mass graves of innocent civilians are turning up all over Kosovo -- somber testimony to Serb brutality and to the righteousness of our cause.
But how much of this is true? Sadly, we have no way of knowing. In Kosovo, as in other matters, American journalists have long since demonstrated their inability -- or perhaps unwillingness -- to distinguish between fact and White House spin.

Let’s start with the alleged success of the air war. During the fighting, NATO claimed to have wiped out 122 Yugoslav tanks and more than 220 troop transporters. But these figures now appear to have been grossly inflated.

"I do not believe these figures at all,” said a military expert in Paris who would not give his name, in a July 2 bulletin from Agence France-Presse. "If we had smashed as many tanks as NATO said, we would see them.”

In fact, very few damaged or destroyed vehicles have been found in Kosovo. The Serbs evidently fooled our airmen into attacking false tanks made from wooden frames covered with tarpaulins or plastic sheeting.

NATO commander Wesley Clark publicly admits that the Serbs "did skillfully deploy lots of decoys.” Yet the U.S. media have largely ignored this story.

How about Milosevic’s alleged surrender? Again, it appears to be fantasy. After two and a half months of fighting, Milosevic agreed to essentially the same terms that he had already accepted before the bombing started.

Back in March, Milosevic agreed to grant autonomy -- but not independence -- to Kosovo and to allow a partly Russian UN peacekeeping force to patrol the province. But NATO wanted more.

An appendix of the Rambouillet agreement required that NATO troops be granted "free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded access throughout FRY (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).” NATO forces would be free to use any Yugoslav street, airport or port without charge, and would have the right to commandeer any land or facilities "as required for support, training and operations.”

In short, NATO was demanding a military occupation of Yugoslavia. Milosevic rejected this, along with NATO’s demand for international deliberations on Kosovar independence. So Clinton started bombing.

The peace agreement struck June 3 yields both points to Milosevic: No Kosovar independence, no NATO troops in Serbia.

"Well, so what?” defenders of the war will counter. Milosevic was committing genocide. We had to do something. Even if the war ended in a stalemate, our decision to fight was still morally sound.

But was it? German government investigators have found no evidence of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo before the onset of NATO bombing.

"Even in Kosovo an explicit political persecution linked to Albanian ethnicity is not verifiable...” said one report, quoted in the April 24, 1999 issue of the German newspaper Junge Welt. The report concluded that Serb security forces were targeting KLA guerrillas and collaborators but apparently not innocent civilians.

What about the 100,000 - 500,000 Kosovar men allegedly missing and feared killed? USA Today reported on July 1 that U.S. officials have now lowered that figure to 10,000. Further reductions seem likely.

Then there are the mass graves. It was the discovery of one such grave in January that triggered NATO intervention. When 45 bodies were found near the town of Racak, a U.S. media blitz accused the Serbs of slaughtering innocent civilians.

NATO commander Wesley Clark personally confronted Milosevic with photos of the victims. "This was not a massacre,” Milosevic cried. "This was staged.”

The New York Times reported this exchange on April 18, 1999, three months after it occurred, but unfortunately failed to explain to readers that Milosevic was probably telling the truth.

By the time that article was written, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, Die Welt, the BBC, and others had already raised doubts about the alleged massacre. Forensic investigators had concluded that the bodies were probably those of KLA guerrillas killed in action. The bodies appear to have been dressed in civilian clothes, then shot additional times and cut with knives several hours after death, in order to simulate a brutal massacre.

In view of the Racak hoax, it would seem wise to reserve judgment about the flood of reports now pouring out of Kosovo concerning mass graves. Many atrocities have undoubtedly occurred, on both sides. But there is little evidence that Serbia has behaved more villainously than its adversary, the KLA.

Since 1993, Clinton has presided over the systematic dismemberment of Yugoslavia, piece by piece. He has armed and supported one rebel leader after another, including Franjo Tudjman, the accused war criminal whose Croatian forces "ethnically cleansed” 300,000 Serbs from Krajina in 1995.

Clearly, there is a purpose behind Clinton’s policy, and just as clearly it has nothing to do with defending human rights. But what that purpose is we are not being told. Until we learn to question our leaders and probe their motivations, we can only look forward to more and deadlier foreign adventures in the future.

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SERBIAN MASSACRES BEFORE NATO AIRSTRIKES.

While the international groups are not allowed to investigate the sites where the serbian troops killed innocent civilians, hundreds of pictures taken after the crimes occurred show that monsters that were active in Bosnia are now doing their dirty work in Kosova as well.

How many Albanian civilians are dead so far as a result of the Serbian terror? Maybe we will never know. The estimated number is around 2000.

They never found out in Bosnia. New mass graves found in Bosnia change the estimated number of casualties daily.

Below you can find pictures of civilians killed by the serbian troops in 1998 only. Since they are very disturbing, we do not recommend viewing them if you are under 18 and / or sensitive.

Massacre in Rogove Village. January 1999.

Massacre in Reçak, Nerodime. January 1999

Massacre in Abri e Epërme, Drenicë. October, 1998.

Massacre in Lybeniq, Drenicë. Summer, 1998.

Massacre in Prekaz, Drenicë. February, 1998.

You can find additional information on the "Human Rights Watch" page, links listed below:

http://www.hrw.org/hrw/press98/dec/kos1211.htm
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/kosovo2/
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/photo_2.htm
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/index.htm

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SERBIAN CRIMES BEFORE NATO:
Massacre in Rogove Village. January 1999.

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SERB CRIMES BEFORE NATO
Massacre in Reçak, Nerodime. January 1999
The year is 1999. No further comments.

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Massacre in Abri e Epërme, Drenicë. October, 1998.


HEY, DRAMA WAS A BABY, A MEMBER OF KLA?


WAS HER MOTHER AS WELL




WAS HER 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER



TAKE Another look





Serbia has committed Genocide in Kosovo.

How much you plan to kill, more?

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According to USA Today there were 10, 000 Albanian victims in Kosovo. Not 500 000 or 700 000.
What about 300 000 Serbian people from Croatia. And that is the real number everywhere you look.

As far as this albo guy goes. Bro, you definitely need to show me your papers from the mental institution that they let you out of if you think this is funny.

Serbian forces massacred INNOCENT PEOPLE

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Also, not everyone including me want to see pictures of killed people. At least give us a warning and please don't post them. Are you crazy?