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Thanks for ping Jane.
I found in today's press an article which complements this one.

Platzer: Organizers of March violence have military training (Danas/Beta)

The Commander of Austrian KFOR contingent Chris Platzer has assessed that persons with military training stand behind the March violence in Kosovo. Platzer told the Vienna based daily Die Presse that KFOR had certain operational problems: "We did not have enough troops to deal with that many demonstrators. They were organized in a way that had lead to a simultaneous escalation of violence at several different locations, enabling them to block our reserves," Platzer explained. He said that the organizers had kept their plans in total secrecy: "It was obvious that a single organization whose members had military training, was standing behind the unrest."

No need to thank me for the ping Nennsy, I thought you would be interested in what a foriegner who has just come back from Kosovo had to say about the situation there.

And by the way, thank you for your post about the Austrian contingent. It was interesting to see that even others who are non-biased are more or less saying the same thing. Yet certain people still believe the serbs are to fault, that they deserve it and the albanian actions are justified revenge. It is not revenge. It's a deep inner hatred for serbs, serb culture and religion, yes, everything that is serb by the Albanians.

If nothing is done by the international community and done soon, then Kosovo will be cleansed of all Serbs. We need to remove our blinkers and recognise that major problems exist. If we don't do something now, than we are helping in the cleansing being committed.

Funny actually how so many people were for the bombing of Serbia when there wasn't any real proof of ethnic cleansing being committed by the Serbs against Albanians in Kosovo before the war. Yet now when there is absolute proof of ethnic cleansing against Serbs by Albanians, everyone is silent. Talk about hypocrisy.