Why opposite Policies for Christian Serbs and Kosovo Albanians?

 

The question of all questions is not whether Kosovo will gain independence, since it is already independent, but when it will gain sovereignty



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Why opposite Policies for Christian Serbs and Kosovo Albanians?

Mary Mostert

Mary Mostert
May 11, 2006

On May 5 the Washington Times published an editorial entitled "Bullying Belgrade" which made the point that those same Europeans that were opposed to and terrified of Saddam Hussein, who used chemical warfare on both the Kurds in Iraq and invaded both Iran and Kuwait, have taken a very strong on "the much less threatening and mostly supplicant government of Serbia."

The Washington Times then repeats, as if true, the so far totally unproven charge that the man the European Union wants Serbia to hand over to the Hague to be tried for "genocide," Ratko Mladic, has not been handed over to them to take the place of the trial farce of the now dead Slobodan Milosevic.

Mladic is charged with "the slaughter of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 and other wartime horrors." Since that time, over 3000 of those supposed slaughtered Muslims in Srebrenica have voted in Bosnia. On the other hand, Europeans generally condemn President George W. Bush for removing dictator Saddam Hussein as leader of Iraq even though he used poison gas on the Kurds in 40 Iraqi towns in 1988, which caused over 5000 deaths within hours, and blinded, maimed, disfigured and caused lingering deaths to another 10,000 and invaded both Iran and Iraq.

Serbia has NEVER invaded another country. An elected Serbian president of Yugoslavia back in the 1990s did try to stop the disintegration of the country. However, it was, after all, the European Union siding with several of the six ethnic "nations" that made up Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro that made the disintegration possible. While the European Union ignored the ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of Croatia in 1995 and continues to ignore it more than 10 years later, it is still the largest forced displacement of a population since World War II. Serbs are the largest number of refugees in Europe, according to the United Nations, still today.

Alex, a reader who lives in Belgrade, pointed out the amazing contradictions between what the West CLAIMS to believe about freedom and independence and what our ACTIONS have been in denying self-determination to Serbs while militarily implementing self-determination for the Bosnian Muslims, who announced in 1983 their intention of creating Europe's first "Islamic state."

While the rest of the world seems to have either never known that, or forgotten it, the Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina have not forgotten it and are watching that plan being implemented. The Dayton Peace Agreement guaranteed to the Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina sovereignty as the Republic of Srpska. That sovereignty, Alex wrote, is being "reduced on a daily basis, little by little. License plates and currency have already become the same for the entire Bosnia-Herzegovina. The so-called Bosnian state bodies which function on the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina, are given more and more power. Soon, the international community plans to create a "unified" army for the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina (after so much bloodshed, is that even possible?). Some international circles are already demanding the revision of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which guarantees the existence of the Republic of Srpska."

The Serbs are not newcomers to Bosnia-Herzegovina. They have lived there for centuries. The Republic of Srpska was created as a direct answer to Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia and is based on past experience of the Serbs who, Alex says "remember what they have been through in WW 2 only too well, and they did not want that genocide to be repeated, thus, the RS was created solely for the protection and survival of the Serbian people in Bosnia."

The Serbs are bit the only uneasy minority in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Croat population also wants the right of self-determination to vote to attack their area to Croatia. The Serbs was to join with Serbia. This is illogically opposed by the Western nations, even the United States, probably because it would make Serbia a stronger nation.

Based on past Serb experience, "The Republic of Srpska was created simply as a reaction to Islamic separatism, and it was the only way to protect the Serbian people in Bosnia. If the RS had not been created, not a single Serb would be left alive in Bosnia today. We see that in places that are no longer under Serbian control, such as in Mostar, Tuzla, Sarajevo... Very few Serbs live there now, as opposed to the situation before the war. Bosnian Muslims, who accuse Serbia proper as being an "aggressor," fail to mention the regular army troops of the Republic of Croatia, which were active in Bosnia. They also fail to mention the Mujahedins from Arab countries, who have strong ties with the Al Qaeda network, many of whom have received Bosnian citizenships, passports etc."

According to Yugoslavia's last census in 1991, its population was 23,528,230, with 35% or 8.5 million of that population being Serbs. In Serbia and Montenegro today, there is a population of 10,832,545, 62% of which are Serbian, 16.5% are Albania and only 5.5% are Montenegrin, Hungarians 3.3% and other ethnicities making up the other 15+ % being other nationalities.

Alex observes that both Bosnia and Kosovo remain "de facto protectorates of the international community," with the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia, and the UNMIK chief in Kosovo, having basically dictatorial power to veto any decision made by parliament. While 95% of the 1.4 million people in

"While, in the RS, 95% of the people (1,391,593 ) are Bosnian Serbs, in Kosovo 95% of the people are Kosovo Albanians." Both hahave elements of a state, yet the international community uses opposite standards for the two entities.

While, in the RS, 95% of the people of the Republic of Srpska are Bosnian Serbs, in Kosovo 95% of its approximately 2 million people are Kosovo Albanians. Yet, the international community takes exactly opposite positions in the right of each group to hold a referendum on independence. The Albanian Muslims will have that right while the Serbian Christians will be denied that there IS such a right,.

The world has heard much of "Serb atrocities" but almost no mention has been made of "the crimes of Muslims against Serbs," observes Alex. During the mid-1990s, the Arab mujahedins beheaded Serbs, roasted Serbs on fire, created Muslim prison camps "such as Tarcin, Silos, Viktor Bubanj barracks, Zenica Youth Correction Facility, Zenica Music School and other places where many Serbs were tortured and killed" ... In fact, there very first victims of the Bosnian war were members of a Serbian family at an Orthodox wedding procession.

I believe the only reason why fair-minded Americans are taking theseremarkably opposite positions on these two almost identical situations is because they have not been told the truth. Become informed  and contact your members of Congress. To contact your member of Congress: Click Here.

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