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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (60280)	9/17/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Good site on Yugoslavia but this is the item I has looking for. Seems we have to bomb everybody again to get them to love each other. Report: NATO's Kosovo mission failing Friday, 17 September 1999 0:21 (GMT) (UPI Focus) Report: NATO's Kosovo mission failing WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) - The Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, an independent think tank, says NATO's military forces in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo are failing to deter or halt a new ethnic cleansing campaign being conducted by the Kosovo Liberation Army. In a study released Sept. 8 by fax and on the Internet entitled "NATO's KLA problem," senior analyst Michael Radu says, "The war in Kosovo ended a few months ago, but the practice of 'ethnic cleansing' is flourishing, this time perpetrated by ethnic Albanians who are proving even more adept at it than the Serbs." He said that although Serb military and police, along with NATO bombing, pushed out "only about half of the Albanian population into temporary exile, fully 90 percent of the non-Albanian minority (which numbered about 200,000 at the beginning of the year) have now left the region - this, during three months of 'peace' and under the oversight of the United Nations and NATO." Radu said the KFOR peacekeeping force and the "United Nation's viceroy in Kosovo, France's Bernard Kouchner, are losing their half- hearted struggle to maintain the myth of a 'multinational' Kosovo." He said this is happening because the Kosovo Liberation Army and its supporters claim that the Gypsy minority of 30,000 participated in the looting of Albanian property during the war. "As a result, the entire Gypsy population was successfully hounded out of Kosovo," he said. "The larger Serbian minority has been subject to murder, harassment, and destruction of Serbian historic monuments, churches and other property. Almost 300 Serbs have been killed by Albanians since the end of the war," he added. Radu said that despite evidence of ethnic cleansing on the part of the KLA, they have "succeeded in maintaining the widespread perception that they are merely the 'victims' of Serbian brutality." He warns that in the province of Serbia, "Serbian refugees from Kosovo will join those who left Croatia and Bosnia to create a volatile and vengeful mass of some 800,000 - 10 percent of the electorate - that will be unlikely to support any Serbian government prepared to accept a more democratic and less nationalistic government." "Whether (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic or the nationalists of Vojislav Seselj will be able to take advantage of these people's frustrations remains to be seen. What is clear, however, is that they have left their homes behind, but not their grievances." -- Copyright 1999 by United Press International. All rights reserved. -- Copyright 1999 by United Press International