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To: Hunden
Besides, the main reason why illicit activities are more developed in Kosovo than they should (in spite of being no more so than in any other European country) is that Milosevic destroyed the local police in 1990 to reassert the alleged "rights" of Serbia over the country.

Propaganda again. Milosevic's taking control of Kosovo had little or nothing to do with the crime in Kosovo. It of course led to violence as described in the link I gave you. But there is no indication that Milosevic's actions led to more crime except to the extent that seperatists engaged in illicit activities while fighting the Serb forces.

41 posted on 12/04/2005 9:51:04 PM PST by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: palmer
Now you don't understand what I meant.

But you don't even understand what you are saying. The Serbian occupation of Kosovo was itself a massive and unending series of criminal acts, including theft, arson, beatings, murders, false arrests, poisoning, forced expulsions and rapes. To say that crime did not rise after the forced annexation of Kosovo to Serbia is a denial of reality.

And there was practically no retaliatory violence from the Albanians until 1996:

"And, as far as terrorist acts are concerned, I can quote some data from our Interior Ministry.

"Let's say : In 1991, there were 11 terrorist actions, in 1992 — 12, in 1993 — 8, in 1994 — 6, in 1995 — 11, but in 1998, after Milosevic had started creating ethnic conflict, there were 1,855 such terrorist actions. It shows that the growth of terrorism in Kosovo a consequence of ethnic cleansing, not its cause.

(Ratomir Tanic interview with Radio Free Europe, 7 March 2001.

Ratomir Tanic led a secret Serbian negotiation team with the Kosovar Albanians until 1997. http://www.danas.org/programi/interview/2001/03/20010307075519.asp

51 posted on 12/04/2005 11:39:00 PM PST by Hunden (Email)
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