Posted on 09/10/2001 3:20:13 AM PDT by Putnik_1915
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The ethnic Albanian commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps, Gen. Agim Ceku denied he is a war crimes suspect for involvement in conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. He also dismissed suggestions that the conflict in Macedonia might now spill over into Montenegro in his first interview with Serbian media published Saturday.
The KPC was set up by the U.N. administration and the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo to replace the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army at the end of the conflict with Yugoslavia in 1999.
Ceku was promoted to the rank of general in the Croatian forces, which fought the Yugoslav army in the early 1990s and later mounted operations to expel rebellious Serb populations from areas in Croatia where they lived. He told reporters in Pristina that he holds a Croatian passport.
Asked if he was worried because his superior officer in Croatia, Gen. Rahim Ademi, also an Albanian, had surrendered to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Ceku said "During the armed actions in Croatia and the war in Kosovo I neither ordered nor committed any war crimes."
"Consequently, I don't think I am a subject of any Hague investigation. My conscience is clear," Ceku added.
He said the idea for the Kosovo Serbs to form their own parallel protection corps was out of the question. "Taking part in the KPC are all those who work for the benefit of Kosovo and who, in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolution 1244, will act to ensure security and rapid reaction in emergency situations."
He also said that 10 percent of the 3,500-strong KPC would be reserved for Serb recruits who U.N. mission chief Hans Haekkerup recently said would have their own unit within the Corps.
As for this resolution's provision envisaging the return of some Yugoslav security forces when circumstances permit, Ceku said "I don't advise them to come for this might result in a conflict. I advise Serbs to accept Kosovo as it is, that is, to accept an independent Kosovo."
He said the Albanians did not expect anyone to present them with an independent Kosovo as a gift and that they would attain it by their own efforts. "I don't believe there is any other solution," Ceku said.
Quite a few companies, especially banks, seem to have this idea as well. Maybe Ceku's just getting into the globalisation groove.
Amazing, isn't it, how the UCK is allowed to speak through the mainstream press and issue undiguised threats to people that they had better not travel back to their own homes in their own country.
This is all tit for tat (and hard to distinguish which one fits which politician or 'expert' nowadays) - it's all bargaining between Nato and the UCK and the threat of trying Ceku as a war criminal (which he undoubtedly is) is just another chip.
Their own efforts include lobbying whore Washington polititians with billions of dollars of heroin money so they will lend them their US air force then paying a premium when some "peacekeeping" forces are needed to consolidate their teritorial gains after they decide which surrounding country they will terrorise next with some of their own special "fight for more human rights"
VRN
Albanians have NEVER attained anything by their own efforts. They attained whatever they did through the driving force of the Ottoman Empire, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, or NATO.
But if he someday develops a conscience, there's going to be hell to pay.
Hands can be washed but a murderer's conscience is impenetrable.
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