Posted on 09/24/2004 10:49:26 AM PDT by mark502inf
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The important thing for all of us to do is to keep tallying up the body counts for each side and keep bickering about who killed who and how many.
Of course there's a chance that it could turn out that these are actually dead Serbs in that hole. Gee. Then I'll be able to say, "See see? The Muslims and Croats committed attrocities too!"
Boy... won't that be a great moment for me? Ugh.
Secondly when it comes to Kosovo Albanian attitudes towards UNMIK now a days (or rather during the March pogrom) I'ld just like to point out something from an article I posted here from CSMonitor on this subject. The article has been posted here for your full reading: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223513/posts
"Early this year, an estimated 50,000 Albanians lashed out against the two forces now seen as blocking Kosovar ambitions for independence - ethnic Serbs and, more surprising, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The riots here in March left a brutal tally of 19 killed, 1,000 injured, Serb homes and churches burned - and dozens of UNMIK vehicles torched."
Altough it says only UNMIK vehicles were torched there is a statement at the end of the article which is rather worrying:
But any alternative short of statehood, or even perpetuating the status quo, may trigger more violence- against minorities, against UNMIK, even among Albanians. "In March we opened their eyes a little, for them to see what can happen in the future," says Redenica, the war-invalids leader. "We're dedicated to independence. And whoever gets in the way, Albanians will not take it calmly."
Jane, ignore this article due for its propensity of skewered news releases.
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