Posted on 12/03/2004 5:52:57 PM PST by followerofchrist
A former rebel commander who has been questioned by United Nations war crimes investigators has been elected prime minister by Kosovo's parliament. Ramush Haradinaj, an ethnic Albanian who led Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) units, won by a vote of 72 to three.
The decision is expected to anger the Serbian government, which wants him to be indicted for war crimes.
Mr Haradinaj has twice been questioned over his role in the 1998-1999 rebel insurgency against Serb rule.
It is alleged that KLA units under Mr Haradinaj's command murdered moderate Albanians and Serbs living in Kosovo, which is now under international supervision.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
This rebel is just another beautiful piece of Madaleine Albrights "Multi-ethnic Kosovo", which happens to be 95% Albanian.
Another one of "Clinton's Legacy".
"According to Del Ponte, by the end of December the ICTY will conclude investigations of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia by filing 6 indictments against 8 or 10 individuals, including one against the KLA leadership that will be completed next week".
This may be resolved sooner, rather than later.
"The announcement coincides with media reports that Mr. Haradinaj may soon be indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague for alleged atrocities in the 1998-99 war against Serb forces. He was interrogated by U.N. court investigators for several days last week. Serbia's President Boris Tadic was quoted by local media as saying that the prime ministerial appointment is therefore "absolutely unacceptable and could destabilize the whole region."
Western diplomats who spoke to reporters seem to agree. They say the expected appointment of Mr. Haradinaj could overshadow final status talks on the future of Kosovo, which were scheduled to begin next year under international supervision."
http://voanews.com/english/War-Crimes-Suspect-Set-to-Become-Kosovo-Prime-Minister.cfm
1) Ramush'es KLA OZ was one of the two (out of 7) most active units in the KLA. The other was the Llap OZ commanded by Rustem Mustafa (aka Remi). Remi's entire staff has been convicted by Kfor/UNMIk for a systemic murder campaign against their fellow Albanians in 1998 & 1999. At the time, Clintonistas attributed these deaths to the sinister 'serbs'. Post-War investigation determined that the KLA did the deeds
2) Ramush is very likely guilty of a infamous crime: throwing a hand grenade at a group of teenagers killing 6..........their crime drinking Fantas in mixed (ie Serbs & Albanians together) company.
3) I personaly suspect Ramush to be guilty of murdering KLA Commander Drini in July 1999. Drini had control of KLA smuggling routes in the adjacant OZ.
4) Ramush also is very likely to have been responsible for the mass exodous of wealthy Albanians from Pec during Clinton's bombing campaign. He hated those Albanian shopkeepers and merchants who made money. One of his units evidently shot 12 Albanians just outside of Pec circa March 28th for not moving quick enough.
5) Ramush is a favorite of Joe DioGuardia, John McCain, and the pro-KLA band in Congress. He was feted a few years ago by Congress as the 'next president of KosovA'. A number of Freepers protested ( thanks Gael for organizing)and the Ramush fete didn't get much airtime.
Since the KLA is pretty much all wasting away in Kfor prisons, Ramush is just about the only one left who could actually hold office. The remaining KLA have far worse records.
"President of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, Speaker of the Parliament Dr. Nexhat Daci, President Ibrahim Rugova, President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo Mr. Hashim Thaqi and Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi at the Project's Crafting Strategies for Peace initiative in December 2003"
It is sickening.
Ramush - you can dress him up in a fine suit, but he stills looks like a thug
An underage girl beaten and raped by Haradinaj
Ramush Haradinaj, newly elected Kosovo Prime Minister ordered and personally committed killings, tortures and rapes of non-Albanian civilians in the territory of Djakovica during withdrawal of Serbian Army and Police from Kosovo and Metohija in 1999. Because of all these crimes, the War Crimes Council of the District Court in Belgrade ordered on August 20, 2004 investigation against Haradinaj and another six members of Kosovo Liberation Army /KLA/ for war crimes against civil population.
According to documents that 'Blic' got, former commander of KLA HQ for Metohija founded a prison in the cellars of Pastrik Hotel. There, non-Albanian civilians were tortured, raped and then taken to the bank of Ernik River and shot dead. That happened at the place called ' Gropa Coftinave'.
On June 12, 1999 at Haradinaj's order, Arben Skrupi, Anton Lekaj, Besim Bestrazimi, Saban Azemi and Hode Hekuran seized Gypsies that attended a wedding ceremony and took them to Pastrik. They objected the Gypsies for having addressed them in Serbian Language. A day later, Serb Rade Gagovic was also taken into prison.
Haradinaj who personally questioned the captives, also gave orders for their torture. On June 12 in a hotel room of Pastrik and underage girl G.T. was brutally beaten and raped by Haradinaj. After that, over two days, other KLA members were constantly raping the girl. Sofija Tafa was also permanently beaten and raped. At night between June 13 and 14 Arben Krupi and Anton Lekaj raped and beaten a man called Bedri Salja. The same night Skupi cut off the ear of Rade Gagovic and then put it in the mouth of Redi Salja forcing him to eat the ear up. There were many other cases of torture.
On June 15 Arben Skupi told Badri Salja, Redja Salja, Bajram Krasnici, Zvezdan Ljusaj and Rade Gagovic that at the order of Ramush Haradinaj they would be shot.
Lekaj, Bestrezimi, Azemi and Uksinaj took the victims by a car to a place called 'Gropa Coftinave' and there shot them dead. Only one, Bedri Salja, managed to escape.
On October 1, 2004 War Crimes Council of the District Court in Belgrade ruled one-month detention for that crime. Since, according to police report, they are not in the territory of Serbia and Montenegro, the Council issued a wanted list for these individuals the same day.
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UNMIK rejected request by Serbia Government
UNMIK yesterday rejected request by the officials in Belgrade to cancel election of Ramush Haradinja for Kosovo Prime Minister. The explanation was that UNMIK 'does not have competence for something like that'.
UNMIK's spokesman Geoff Belly said that 'election of Haradinaj is a legitimate will of deputies in Kosovo Parliament and that UNMIK is willing to respect democratic principles and request implementation of standards for Kosovo only'.
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Rejecting request by Serbia Government to cancel election of Ramush Haradinaj, UNMIK spit in the face of justice, UN /whose mandate UNMIK has/ and public opinion. In the first place he spit in the face of the underage girl for whose rape the newly elected Prime Minister of Serbia southern province is suspected and finally in the face of the families whose members were killed at the hand or order of Ramush Haradinaj.
Thus, thanks to hypocrisy of the international community, whose spokesman claims that Haradinaj 'was elected thanks to the will of deputies in legitimate Kosovo Parliament and in line with democratic procedure', a hand of a criminal is going to sign laws in Europe of the 21st century. Formally speaking the spokesman is right, but Mussolini, Hitler or Goebels were also elected in line with democratic procedures in force. The difference is that they committed the crimes after their elections, while Haradinaj has been on wanted list as a criminal for years.
This act abolishes crimes against civil population and promotes those who committed those crimes into pioneers of sick 'Kosovo democracy' not known in modern history. Is this the last humiliation that protectors in Kosovo and Metohija have thrown in Serbia's face indirectly saying that that state is only needed as the other party in the final act of 'democratic circus' called 'Talks about the future of Kosovo'? Will Serbia have to negotiate about its own territory with a man who tortured, raped, killed…?
There are as many questions as crimes that former commander of KLA HQ for Metohija is being charged with. And that list is not short.
Haradinaj himself seems to be mocking at us all from his throne of a Prime Minister. He does not say that he is not guilty. He says that the Hague Tribunal does not have any proofs against him.
Obviously Justice in Kosovo has not tied the eyes only, but the hands as well.
This piece of "dung" is who the "ethnic" (as if Serbs aren't) Albanians elected. I read accounts of these people lying and harboring drug dealers and terrorists long ago. I didn't believe the rank and file Albanian would do such a thing. Then I read that they have almost twice the number of children in Kosovo that they do in Albania so that they could breed the Serbs out. Could this be true? Could almost an entire population be scoundrels?
You're making something out of nothing. After the Balkan Wars the boundaries of Albania were set with about half the Albanians living outside them in what is now Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Greece. The term "ethnic Albanian" came into use to describe those of Albanian ethnicity who were not citizens of Albania proper; something like how Serb & Serbian are used.
they have almost twice the number of children in Kosovo that they do in Albania so that they could breed the Serbs out...Could almost an entire population be scoundrels?
Yep, that's got to be it. And it explains why there are no Serbs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America where poor, rural farming families with low female education levels have very high birth rates. They have out-bred the Serbs.
You failed to check that when Albania was formed for the first time in history in 1912, Shiptars (a.k.a. Albanians) were barely 50% of population. The rest were Serbs, Montenegrins, Greeks, Turks and Tzintzars. In 92 years since then Shqiptars have assimilated,KILLED and outbred the rest. According to CIA FACTBOOK
Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, and Bulgarian) (1989 est.) note: in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization)
So, your opionion is either ignorant one (you did not know that it was not only Shqiptars who were left outside of national borders) or racist one (you care only for Shqiptars to the point of condoning the genocide they commited in Albania)
Shqiptar claims of being left out of the borders are comparable to MENENDEZ BORTHERS claim of being orphans!
Serbia had no ill intentions toward the new neighbor, especially having in mind large number of Serbs who were left behind in Albania. Yes, sowe Shqip were left outside of Albanian border, but also Serbs, Greeks were left in Albania. This tiny detail is hidden by Albanian extremist in their rabid nationalistic tantrum.
When speaking to the outside world, Albanians call their country Albania and call themselves Albanians. Yet, when speaking about themselves and their country in their own language, they call country Shqipnia and themselves Shqip.
Sounds odd? It gets even more interesting with Turkish name. Turks call Shqip ARNAVUT and country ARNAVUTLUK. Loosely translated it means: "Unreturned". This si is unerasable mark where Shqip came from -when Turks settled in the Balkans, they found ARNAVUT, people they already knew.
Sadly, the best product of Albania is falsification of history (i.e. claim of Shqip being descendants of Illyrians) supported by the brazen theft of historical heritage of Serb and Hellenic people.
Serbia had no ill intentions toward the new neighbor, especially having in mind large number of Serbs who were left behind in Albania. Yes, sowe Shqip were left outside of Albanian border, but also Serbs, Greeks were left in Albania. This tiny detail is hidden by Albanian extremist in their rabid nationalistic tantrum.
When speaking to the outside world, Albanians call their country Albania and call themselves Albanians. Yet, when speaking about themselves and their country in their own language, they call country Shqipnia and themselves Shqip.
Sounds odd? It gets even more interesting with Turkish name. Turks call Shqip ARNAVUT and country ARNAVUTLUK. Loosely translated it means: "Unreturned". This si is unerasable mark where Shqip came from -when Turks settled in the Balkans, they found ARNAVUT, people they already knew.
Sadly, the best product of Albania is falsification of history (i.e. claim of Shqip being descendants of Illyrians) supported by the brazen theft of historical heritage of Serb and Hellenic people.
Ah! I thought I did my research well during Clinton's ethnic cleansing campaign. I thought the Illyrians were Albanians.
According to Albanians even Alexander the Great was an Albanian :-)
All this childish attempts would be silly if not the engine of ruthless land grab, destruction of cultural heritage and take no prisoners approach to the rightful owners.
The brazenless of Albanian "historiography" can be best seen in the case of Georg Castriota later known as Iskander Bey or SKenderbeg.
Skenderbeg was a Serb, born of Serb father (Ivan) and Serb mother (Voisava). Yet, Albanian "historiography" calls Skenderbeg Albanian, and George's father, a Serb "Albanian nobleman" although at that time there was no Albania nor they were Shqip.
It must be horrible existence to learn that for 1000 years the only Shqip contribution to the Balkans was destruction.
When one has no heroues of his own, he has to steal them from others.
>>>Sounds odd? It gets even more interesting with Turkish name. Turks call Shqip ARNAVUT and country ARNAVUTLUK. Loosely translated it means: "Unreturned". This si is unerasable mark where Shqip came from -when Turks settled in the Balkans, they found ARNAVUT, people they already knew.
The term "Arnavut" is the Turkization of the Greek term "Arvanite", which is in turn nothing but the Greek version of the Albanian name in the time period "Arberia". The term Shqiptar is in fact a relatively new term and characteristic only of the Albanians within the territories that make up "ethnic Albania". i.e. Albania, Western Macedonia, Southern Montenegro, and Kosov@.
Albanian diaspora that has had a significant isolation from these territories, retain the medieval name in some variation. The Albanians that emigrated to Italy in the 15th century call themselves Arbresh, Albanians that fled deep inside the borders of Greece after Dusan's rampage in Albania, retain the name Arvanites though they have developed a Greek identity. And the Albanians of Croatia, are known as Arbanasi.
Your half-a**ed attempt at a coherent explaining away of Albanian history is weak and shows you have no interest in history, but only in spreading disinformation and prejudice.
>>>Skenderbeg was a Serb, born of Serb father (Ivan) and Serb mother (Voisava). Yet, Albanian "historiography" calls Skenderbeg Albanian, and George's father, a Serb "Albanian nobleman" although at that time there was no Albania nor they were Shqip.
As I mentioned before, Shqip is a new name for the Albanian language. Read Skenderbeg's own words:
Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto:
ÒGiorgio, gentleman of Albania, to Giovanni Antonio, Prince of Taranto, greeting.
Having made a truce with the enemy of my religion I have not wanted that my friend remain (fraudato) of my aid. (Spesse?) times, Alfonso, his father, invited my help while I waged war against the Turks. Therefore I would be very ungrateful if I had not resisted (lÕistesso?) service to his son. I remember what your king did because now (non deve vedere succedergli?) this who is his son? You adored his father, and why now do you try to throw out his son? Where did this power come from? Who has the power to set up the King of Sicily, you or the Roman Pontiff?
I came to aid Ferrante, son of the king and seat of the Apostolica. I came opposing your unfaithfulness and innumerable great betrayals in this kingdom. (NeÕ?) will you ever be unpunished for your perjury. This is the reason for my war against you. I merit this no less than I merited making war against the Turks, nor are you less Turk than them. (ImperoccheÕ vi sono alcuni?) that guide you in a straight line not to be of some sect. You my opponents the French and the names of those people, and those for the religion wage grand war.
I do not want to dispute ancient matters with you, matters that perhaps were much less than what was told about them. Certainly in our times the Aragonese armadas have often coursed the Aegean Sea, have plundered the Turkish coasts, have (riportata?) the prey of the enemies; and even today the Aragonese armies defend Troja from the jaws of the enemy. Why do I remember the old things and leave the new parts? If they change the family costumes and the plowmen of the kingdom, and the kings of the plowmen return? (NeÕ troverai nobilitaÕ piuÕ antica della virtuÕ.)
Nor can I deny that you are not with the obnoxious French nation, (imperoccheÕ) you being mainly in aid of King Alfonso, you hunted the French of this kingdom. I do not know now what new virtue shines in this. Perhaps it is some new star that you have now seen among the French?
Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. My elders were from Epirus, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies.
I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?
In the past the Albanese have (fatto?) experience if the Pugilese were armed; (neÕ) I would again find some who would have been able to aspired to my nature. I have well noted from the back how many of your soldiers are well armed but have never been able to see their helmets or (tanpoco?) the face except those that have become prisoners. (NeÕ?) I seek your house (Bastandomi?) my own. Besides, it is well known that you often would have shot your neighbors for their possessions, as now you would force out the king of your house and your kingdom.
(Che se?) If I fall in the difficult task I have embarked on I will be buried as (mi vai?) wishing in your letter, will bring back my soul as a reward from the Chancellor of the universe, of God. Not only will I have perfected my intention, but also I will have planned and attempted some distinguished deed.
Good bye....Ó
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>>>I thought the Illyrians were Albanians.
The Albanians are descendants of the ancient inhabitants of this part of the Balkans, the Illyrians. In a genetic sense, this is largely true of Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins and Bosnians. But in a cultural, linguistic sense it is thought by a large majority of respected historians, that Albanians largely preserved Illyrian customs and language. In fact it is thought that the term pertains to one Illyrian tribe, the Albanoi who is thought to have resisted Romanization due to the rugged nature of the terrain where they lived, somewhere around modern Dibar or Mirdita.
Coincidentally, this is the area given by linguists as the area where the nucleus of the modern Albanian language was located.
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