Kosovo and Ongoing De-Christianization

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Kosovo and Ongoing De-Christianization

By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent

The ongoing de-Christianization of Kosovo continues and unlike the past frenzy of the anti-Serbian mass media in the West, we mainly have a deadly silence about the reality of Kosovo and the continuing Albanianization of this land. However, how is it "just" and "moral" to persecute minorities and to alienate them from mainstream society; and then to illegally recognize this land without the full consensus of the international community?

How ironic it is that the same United States of America and the United Kingdom, two nations who were in the forefront of covertly manipulating the mass media; remain mainly silent about the destruction of Orthodox Christian churches, Serbian architecture, and of course the past killings of Serbians and other minorities in Kosovo.

After all, according to America and the United Kingdom the initial conflict was about human rights, democracy, and liberty. However, what about the liberty and freedom of Orthodox Christian Serbs, Gypsies, and other minorities in Kosovo? Are these minorities free in modern day Kosovo and can they move around without the fear of discrimination, persecution or death?

Obviously, vast parts of Kosovo are out of bounds for the majority of minorities in Kosovo, therefore, the answer is no and many areas which were cleansed of Serbians and other minorities remain cleansed.

According to Minority Rights Group International (MRG) which is based in the United Kingdom, it is apparent that exclusion and discrimination is rife. Therefore, minorities face a bleak future and Serbians, Bosniaks, Roma, Croats, Turks, Gorani and Ashkali Egyptians are either being forced out because of alienation or because of limited economic opportunities.

The MRG is not alone in thinking that minorities have been badly betrayed because it is clear that Kosovo remains in limbo and minorities will continue to leave because of the ongoing situation.

Patriarch Pavle　(His Holiness the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbs) is highly respected and a man of reason. He stated the following many years ago ( http://kosovo.net ):

"This humble publication is our cry and appeal to the Christian and civilized world. It is distressing to learn that in the year of the greatest Christian Jubilee, at the end of two millenniums of Christianity, Christian churches are still being destroyed, not in a war but in the time of peace guaranteed by the international community. We hope that these photos of the destroyed and desecrated Orthodox shrines will awaken the conscience of those who are able to stop the crimes and believe that they who already stood up against one evil will not remain just passive witnesses of another evil happening now in their presence."
"We also make our appeal to all Kosovo Albanians, who reasonably see their future in their joint life with Serbs, to resist and prevent the acts of insanity."
"In Kosovo and Metohija there will be no victory of humanity and justice while revenge and disorder prevail. No one has the moral right to celebrate the victory complacently, as long as one evil is being replaced with another and the freedom of one people is becoming the slavery of another."
Patriarch Pavle stated this many years ago and sadly his words of wisdom have been ignored and instead America and the United Kingdom decided to create a new world order; this new world order was to carve up Serbia and to break international law. This breach of ignoring international law ultimately had greater repercussions because the Russian Federation would support Abkhazia and South Ossetia after conflict erupted in Georgia.

Therefore, a "new can of worms was opened" and the "Kosovo model" could inspire future mayhem because it is clear that international law was rendered to be unimportant.

Like I stressed in my last article about Kosovo (Kosovo and Systematic Persecution by KLA) it is clear that all sides committed atrocities, just like what happens in all wars. Pain can be felt on all sides and sadly many innocents were killed during the various civil wars which engulfed the former Yugoslavia.

However, the Serbian story war largely untold and the same can be said about the persecution of other minorities in Kosovo. Yet what is clear is that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was involved in running brutal death camps and this even applies to the killing of people for organs.

At the same time the KLA supported the ethnic cleansing of Serbians and other minorities, and the same applies to the destruction of Christian churches, monasteries, and other historical architecture which was a clear reminder of the roots of Kosovo.

Also, the hard sell by America, the United Kingdom, and other nations who support independence, is that independence was justified on the grounds of Serbian atrocities. Yet if the KLA was found to be involved in killing civilians for organs then "the spin machine" collapses and "democracy" rings hollow.

Therefore, in one part of Europe we are a seeing the silent destruction of Serbian Orthodox Christianity and the ongoing persecution and alienation of minorities in Kosovo.

It would appear that the violation of international law is deemed to be a viable policy for both America and the United Kingdom. Therefore, important questions, for example the role of the KLA in killing innocents for organs, the rise of the KLA in such a short space of time and a host of other vital questions remain unanswered.

However, it is vital to counter this cover-up and blatant violation of international law because it is clear that murky covert acts have been implemented by higher powers. Also, the world is still divided about the future of Kosovo but why did some nations behave so hastily without the full facts, and without taking into consideration the ongoing persecution and alienation of minorities in Kosovo?

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Kosovo war not justified, U. Arizona professor argues in new book

Kosovo war not justified, U. Arizona professor argues in new book

By Justyn Dillingham

September 21, 2009

Source: Arizona Daily Wildcat, U. Arizona

 

For most University of Arizona students today, the 1999 Kosovo War may be a distant memory. For David N. Gibbs, it's all too relevant.

Gibbs, an associate professor of history and political science, has published a new book, "First Do No Wrong: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia," which contends that the United States' intervention into the Balkan wars of the 1990s was not only wrong, but actually made the situation worse.

For Gibbs, President Bill Clinton's decision to intervene in Kosovo marked the beginning of a new era of "humanitarian intervention," supported by leftists and conservatives alike.

Gibbs cites President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq and President Barack Obama's commitment to "winning the war" in Afghanistan as a continuation of that trend.

"To the political left, intervention had been seen as a predatory activity," Gibbs said. That changed, he said, with the interventions of the 1990s, beginning with the 1991 Persian Gulf War and continuing under the Clinton administration. He found himself at odds with liberal friends who argued that military action was sometimes necessary to prevent genocide or liberate countries from dictatorships.

"A large number of people I know advocated more intervention," Gibbs said. "They dropped their anti-militarism. Increasingly, you had liberals and even socialists supporting neoconservatives like (former U.S. deputy secretary of defense) Paul Wolfowitz."

Gibbs said he found these pro-intervention arguments "naïve and misguided." He contends in his book that the real motivation for intervention into the Kosovo conflict lay in the U.S. government's wish to strengthen its sway over international affairs in the face of an "independent" European Union. He also argues that "a certain sense of regret" at the passing of the Cold War, and a desire to create new enemies to take the place of the Soviet threat, lay behind the intervention.

American foreign policy is "a self-sustaining machine," Gibbs said. "Many liberal intellectuals foolishly sign up for the enterprise of justifying it."

Gibbs describes himself as "a man of the left," but his argument has found favor with many conservatives "despite this unfortunate deficiency," as he jokingly put it. His book has received positive reviews in the right-leaning Washington Times from a former Reagan administration official, and from the World Socialist Web site.

Gibbs spent ten years working on the book, which marked a new direction for him after his first book, about the Congo crisis of the 1960s.

"It was a totally new field for me," Gibbs said. "I was trying to gain an understanding of the basic change that had occurred with the end of the Cold War.

"I was trained as a political scientist during the Cold War. It took a while for me and others to get a handle on that."

Despite his disdain for most military interventions, Gibbs is careful to disassociate himself from paleoconservatives like Pat Buchanan, who has gone so far as to allege that America's entrance into World War II was unnecessary. Gibbs said he thinks that some of America's past wars, such as World War II and the Civil War, have been justified.

He also said he "probably would not have opposed intervention" to stop the Rwanda genocide in 1994. But he added that even justified wars create a dangerous precedent.

"Each intervention increases the likelihood of further intervention," Gibbs said

 

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/kosovo-war-not-justified-prof-argues-in-new-book-1.524321

 

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W.Dorich

Mon Sep 21 2009 14:41

The argument here should not be about the number of victims but how conveniently the West, especially the Clinton Administration, lied to the American taxpayers. He took us to war without an Act of Congress, a vote at the UN, in violation of the Helsinki Final Act, the UN Charter and in violation of the NATO treaty which was a defensive treaty and the Serbs did not attack any NATO country. We now know the hideous lies and distortions that were used in this process. The so called rape of "60,000 Bosnian women," the "Markale Market bombing" where we now know the Muslims killed their own citizens to gain international sympathy for their Jihad, the so called "destruction of Dubrovnik," and the "Racak massacre," used as the pretext to bomb Serbia, all stage managed events in which the American public was hoodwinked. Today Hashim Tachi the PM of Kosovo and a former KLA "terrorists" admitted that Racak was stage managed. The bodies were moved to the alleged crime scene, the clothes of the victims were changed from military to civilian and according to forensic experts from 4 countries the bodies were mutilated after they were killed in battle with Serbian forces.The lack of morality in this alleged "humanitarianism" is exposed by the US bombing of 200 Serbian schools, 178 Serbian hospitals and nursing homes who clearly had the Red Cross painted on their roofs, the destruction of 66 bridges, 75 industrial complexes, 62 agricultural sites, and the bombing of entire Serbian villages like Aleksinac on April 6, 1999 where Gen. Wesley Clark gave orders to level more than 450 Serbian home that were 5 miles from any military or industrial complex. He even bombed 23 Serbian cemeteries to erase the history in those regions. He bombed trains, buses and even passenger cars and the General even resorted to using illegal cluster bombs on civilian populations, a war crime. He then refused for 8 years to release the maps of those cluster bombs to stop people from being killed and dismembered. These were all clearly civilian targets in order to inflict pain on the Serbian population, all war crimes.The immoral Vice President Al Gore, the "chicken little the sky is falling" VP in command when the oil refineries and chemical plants along the Danube River were bombed, polluting that river for 2,000 miles through 9 countries. Gore is such a hypocrite these days earning millions of dollars a year spouting ecological bull crap about the environment when he showed no conscience whatsoever about doing this to Serbia.Since this hideous 78 days of bombing, cancer has risen 40% and birth defects are up 3,000%. Something the talented omission journalists will not talk about. We have literally destroyed the water table in Belgrade and surrounding areas for the next 100 years without a second thought. We now know that Gen. Clark thought that the bombing of Belgrade might kill 500,000 and the bombing of the oil stock piles would bring Milosevich to his knees, instead we contaminated the air around Belgrade with VCMs 10,600 times above acceptable levels and that pollution hovered over the city for more than a week.And what was accomplished in this "humanitarian war"... Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo have more than 40% unemployment. Those who did $90 billion in infrastructure damage are now refusing to pay to rebuild the industrial base in Serbia. We have created the single largest criminal enterprise on the continent in Kosovo where drug lords and pimps have created a network of prostitution and human trafficking in addition to weapons smuggling. Kosovo has become the gateway for 70% of the illegal drugs flowing into Europe. I am beginning to believe that there was so much money at stake that the human tragedy that was created is merely a byproduct of our own greed. Too many people on all sides have enriched themselves at the public trough stuffing tens of millions into their pockets as they preach human rights and equal justice as the Serbs are denied any legal redress because the "partisan press" condemned them to Collective Guilt.Where was Clinton's humanitarian concerns when it came to the Serbian people who have been ethnically cleansed from Croatia creating a religious and ethnically pure state? Or in Kosovo which has the greatest level of genocide including the destruction of 151 ancient Serbian churches and the near complete elimination of all the Serbs who for a thousand years were the majority population until 1941 when tens of thousands were liquidated by Albanian Nazis. After that war, Tito forbade their return guaranteeing that the population would swing in favor of the Albanians. No mention is EVER made by dishonest journalists that today 40% of the Albanians in Kosovo are illegal aliens who cross the border from Albania into Serbia as easily as Mexicans who cross our border each night in San Diego. There is so much shame to go around that this argument about the body count seems trivial when compared to the losses that...