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>Online I have found evidence that they robbed and looted two Albanian ones, but Croatian Churches weren’t so lucky. On Youtube there a few videos of Serb soldiers taking aim at them with mortars. I remember reading in a report that several 100 catholic churches were destroyed during the war.

I think that maybe you’re referring to the wars in Bosnia or Croatia.

>Nice to blame Milosevic, and deflect blame but he didn’t pull a trigger. Serb soldiers did.

I said that, did I not?

>Do you know many Serb people still support the Radical Party’s view on Kosovo?

Maybe because the Radical party is the most prominent champion of ‘Kosovo is part of Serbia’ bit.

I have heard it said that all of the real revenge stuff happened the first few months or so after NATO entered Kosovo. Also, I don’t know if ALbanians made up 75% of Kosovo’s population in 1912.

"not even Serbs authorities claim that they are more than 25% Serbs" was the appox quote by either Malcolm Noel or Vickers. Not sure, but I can find if one challenges me on that. The point is that was not "Serbia." It was in the 14th century, when part of France was "England" as well.

It turns out Serbs wanted half of Albania as well, for "historical reasons," given that they had ruled it in the 13th century. They actually wanted two ports. The problem with "Kosovo is Serbia" is that people have bitter memories and don't want to be "Serbia"

There's a lot written by Leo Freundlich, Leon Tolstoy (who was a reporter,) Edith Durham and Carnegie Institute on Serbia's 1913 (?)campaign. Serbs started to literally wipe them out, especially on the borders, apparently the border would move based on population, so kill Albanians and it is no longer "Albania."

The thousand and thousands of men, women, children and old people who have been slain or tortured to death, the villages marauded and burnt to the ground, the women and young girls who have been raped, and the countryside plundered, ravaged and swimming in blood can give no answer to this question.

The Serbs came to Albania not as liberators but as exterminators of the Albanian people. The Ambassadors' Conference in London proposed drawing the borders of Albania according to ethnic and religious statistics to be gathered on site by a commission. The Serbs have hastened to prepare the statistics for them with machine guns, rifles and bayonets. They have committed unspeakable atrocities.
The shock and outrage produced by these crimes are outdone only by the sense of sorrow that such vile deeds could be committed in Europe, not far from the great centres of western culture, in this twentieth century. Our sorrow is made all the heavier by the fact that, despite the reports which have been cabled home for months now by the journalists of many nations, and despite the impassioned indictment launched to the world by Pierre Loti, nothing has been done to put an end to the killings.

A courageous people full of character is being crucified before the eyes of the world and Europe, civilized Christian Europe, remains silent!
Tens of thousands of defenceless people are being massacred, women are being raped, old people and children strangled, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground, priests slaughtered.

And Europe remains silent! Serbia and Montenegro have set out to conquer a foreign country. But in that land live a freedom-loving, brave people who despite centuries of servitude have not yet become accustomed to bearing a foreign yoke. The solution is obvious. The Albanians must be exterminated!

Leo Freundlich: Albania's Golgotha: Indictment of the Exterminators of the Albanian People http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts/AH1913_1.html And while this may ancient in the West, when and do it again in 1999, you talk about "throwing them out" in 2008, people do react. One of their church leaders recently called Russia to invade or give Serbia guns and volunteers. The problem is that people there apparently don not want to become Serbs.