Posted on 01/22/2006 12:52:21 AM PST by kronos77
From 1989 till 1995, namely until the Dayton Accord, the Kosovans faithfully followed Rugova's passive resistance. The Dayton Accord, which put an end to the Yugoslavian War, was in fact a real shock to the Kosovans, for there was no word at all in it about the Kosovo issue. Americans, who guaranteed Rugova that Kosovo would be the next issue on their agenda, did not keep their promise. No wonder that the entrance of the Kosovo Liberation Army
The Kosovo Liberation Army logo (Ushtria Clirimtare E Kosoves - UCK, under the leadership of Hashim Thaci, coincided the year 1996, when the disillusion of the Kosovans with Rugova and his passive resistance was at its highest. UCK started the systematic attacks against the Serbians. The motto was “The war began in Kosovo, it will end in Kosovo”. The history of the UCK goes as early as to February 1982, where it was founded in Turkey by the Maoist militants and partisans of Enver Hodja as the “Movement for the Albanian Republic of Yugoslavia”. After a couple of name changes, the movement began to be notorious first in February 1996 as the perpetrator of the assault to a Serbian refugees camp in Bosnia. The UCK militants were trained in Iran and Pakistan, and financed by the Albania’s socialists. By 1996, it seems that the West dropped Rugova. Otherwise, what was the purpose of the American negotiator, Richard Holbrook, and the German Foreign Office official, Wolfgang Ischinger establishing contact with the indomitable UCK? In 1997, in Albania, the Socialists overthrew Sali Belisha, who was Rugova's close partner.
Rugova’s much discussed meeting with Milosevic in May 1998 The new Prime Minister, the Socialist leader Fatos Nano supported the UCK.
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So, Rugova's gone. There is no more check for Tachi and his thugs...
Yea, but tachi will now grab the power, he wants to br fuhrer of Albanians.
Rugova? Good riddance.
Bump!
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