24 years ago, on March 24, 1999, NATO began bombing Serbia. A crime was committed in the Serbian people under the operative code name “The Merciful Angel”.
Serbia was reportedly to have been punished for excessive usage of force against any of its citizens, Albanian rebels (read separatists), from the confederate Serbian state of Kosovo and Metochija*, which were spoken euphatically in the diplomatic language of the states that defined themselves as "international community" (also in Poland) – freedom fighters or guerrillas.
Since the mid-1990s, Serbian safety forces had to defend the constitutional order of the country against the rebellion of part of the Albanian national minority, headed by an armed organization called the Liberation Army of Kosovo (abbreviated in Albanian UCK).
UCK was established in 1994. The origin of its backing was various criminal activities, mainly drug trafficking. Its primary nonsubjective was to secession and establish an independent Albanian state of Kosovo from the confederate Serbian province, and to yet implement the nineteenth-century plan for the creation of large Albania (a merger of Albania with areas mostly inhabited by Albanians in another Balkan countries: Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece).
This organization first confessed to terrorist attacks in 1996, erstwhile its members carried out bombings on Serbian exile camps from Croatia located in Kosovo and Methochia. (at the time of the largest cultural cleansing in 1995, more than 200,000 Serbs were exiled by the “democratic” Croatian authorities, for which the country did not fall even “b” from the bomb).
UCK confessed to killing about 50 people in 1997, and in 1998 there was already a regular war between Serbian safety forces and UCK troops. In July, before the offensive of the Serbian police, the UCK controlled a 3rd of the territory of Kosovo and Methochia. The fights were discontinued after the Albanian forces were broken up and in the face of threats to start NATO bombings.
In 1998, Albanian separatists made 1,884 terrorist actions in which 115 police officers and 173 civilians were killed and 292 people were kidnapped (31 killed, destiny 142 unknown, 9 people escaped and 110 were released).
Between 01.01.1999 and 07.03.1999, 2 weeks before the bombings began, a 421 terrorist action was carried out in which 11 police officers and 77 civilians were killed, 34 people were kidnapped (5 killed, destiny 9, 5 was unknown and 15 were released). To sum up, in little than 2 and a half years in Serbia, armed Albanians from the UCK murdered 462 people, and 151 people lost all trace.
Is there any country in the planet that would let a akin rebellion on its own territory and would not do anything to suppress it and destruct paramilitary units hijacking and killing civilians in cold blood?
It is worth recalling here that the UCK in the mid-1990s was included on the list of abroad terrorist organizations drawn up by the U.S. State Department, and the peculiar envoy of Bill Clinton for the Balkans, Robert Gelbard stated for Agence France Press (23.02.1998) that the UCK is undoubtedly a terrorist group. Despite this, the UCK was removed from the list of terrorist organizations, as reported by Wall Street diary Europe on 11.01.2001.
The Effects of Bombing
The first bombs fell on Serbia at 19.45 on 24.03.1999. The raids continued regular for eleven weeks, precisely 78 days. NATO began bombings utilizing initially 650 aircraft, but at the end of the "turnover" action there were already about 1,600 machines (two thirds are combat aircraft). Tens of thousands of raids were made and respective tens of thousands of tons of bombs were dropped.
During the bombings, ammunition was utilized with impoverished uranium (poisoning dirt and water for many, many years, resulting in an increase in cancer diseases), cluster bombs (splitting into tiny loads, a large percent of which does not detonate and is simply a peculiar threat to children for many years) and graphite bombs (destructing the energy system, resulting in primarily suffering civilians).
About 2,000 civilians were killed in NATO bombings – citizens of Yugoslavia (including 90 children) and more than 1,000 soldiers and policemen. Most civilians were killed in attacks on: Koriša village (87), car column (75), train crossing the bridge in the Grdelica gorge (55), town of Surdulica (25), town of Aleksinac (17), Serbian tv building in Belgrade (16), Niš is the second largest city in Serbia (15). About 6,000 people were injured or injured. Direct material harm is about $30 billion.
In an interview with Radio Belgrade 2 prof. Noam Chomsky in October 2008, he stated that in the case of Kosovo and the bombing of Serbia it is highly difficult, or even impossible, to uncover even the basic facts, even those existing in the documentation of the State Department and NATO. According to him, the attitude towards Serbia became part of the spiritual fundamentalist doctrine of humanitarian intervention, and any effort to uncover simple facts based on evidence of bombardment faces terrible resistance. prof. Chomsky considers the message of 1 of the highest representatives of the Bill Clinton administration, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot, who was 1 of the key people in the State Department liable for east European affairs at the time of the bombings of Serbia, and a year ago he supported the book of his associate John Morris with words: "If you want to find out what happened there you should read this book. And what did John Morris say in it? "The bombing of Kosovo and Serbia was not motivated by any humanitarian reasons, but due to the fact that Serbia did not carry out the expected social and economical reforms.
The bombing was completed at 13.15 on 10.06.1999 and the suffering of the Serbs was not long enough.
Effects of global peacekeeping forces in Kosovo and Methochia
Since the Serbian safety forces left Kosovo and Methochia in accordance with the peace agreement and UN safety Council Resolution 1244, i.e. from 10.06.1999 to 17.03.2004, more than 250,000 people had to leave their homes before Albanian terror.
During this period the Albanians murdered and kidnapped about 2,500 people, demolished and burned more than 80,000 houses and about 150 Orthodox temples.
According to the Serbian non-governmental organization Fond's figures for humanitarian pravo only in June – December 1999 in Kosovo and Methochia more than 1,000 Serbs were lost in unexplained circumstances.
From 17.03.2004 to 19.03.2004, in the March Pogrom, in 3 days only the Albanians started riots (in which 50,000 of their compatriots participated) killing 8 Serbs, driving out of homes 4.012, levelling 7 Serbian villages to the ground, burning 561 Serbian houses, destroying 35 Orthodox temples.
The then UNMIK police press spokesperson Derek Chapel said then – It is apparent that this wave of force was planned.
General Lewis MacKenzie wrote in an article for the Canadian National Post in 2004 "We participated and indirectly supported their run of force for clean ethnically and independent Kosovo.
According to authoritative data from the Serbian Government Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Methochia, from June 1999 to April 2004, Albanians fled the state to another parts of Serbia and Montenegro 287,000 people (including about 230.000 Serbs).
The number of people who left their homes before the panic of Albanians and found shelter in the remaining Serbian enclaves (read: ghettos) in Kosovo and Methochia is 20,000.
Epilogue
On 17.02.2008. Albanians in Kosovo and Methochia declared independence. Albanian separatists with the support of the US and 22 European Union states (the Serbian province's section did not recognise: Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia) and under cover of respective tens of thousands of NATO soldiers and global police officers formed another Albanian state (aside Albania) in Serbia. The ultimate Authorities of Serbia declare that they never recognise the illegal secession of Kosovo and Methochia and will proceed to fight for territorial integrity by all political and diplomatic means. To this end, Serbia has sent a motion for a resolution to the UN General Assembly asking the global Court of Justice to ask for the legality of the declaration of independency by the interim Kosovo and Methochian authorities. At the UN General Assembly gathering on 8.10.2008, 77 countries voted in favour of sending a query, 74 abstained (including EU countries) and the erstwhile US, Albania, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau and Nauru. It will take the Court up to 2 years to deliver an opinion on the matter. To this day, the alleged independent Kosovo has recognised 55 countries (the United Nations includes 192 countries).
Serbs have been asking the question for 10 years how it is possible that the most developed European countries and the US have chosen as allies Albanian terrorists, a terrorist organization (UCK) and Albanian politicians, erstwhile UCK commanders with blood on their hands: Agim Cheku – erstwhile Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj – erstwhile Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci – the current Prime Minister, who proceed in Kosovo and Methochia are the head of household clans dealing with the most horrible types of organized crime, specified as human trafficking, and interior organ trafficking of kidnapped people. 1 possible answer is found in the book The Kosovo experimentation of an Austrian writer and writer Hannes Hofbauer, who believes that the bombing of Yugoslavia without a UN mandate has begun the process of violating global law and replacing it with human rights, which, in contrast to completely transparent global law, can be interpreted as needed and appreciated. In breaking global law, Hofbauer sees a return to colonialism. – The aim of imperial forces (NATO and EU) is to establish in the Balkans, in an area inhabited by Slavs, non-Slavic centres and thanks to them take control of natural wealth there.
This explanation appears to have been confirmed in expert opinions. Gazeta.pl on the date of the announcement of the illegal independency of Kosovo and Methochia reported that there are fifth-largest decks of brown coal in the world, which is shallow and inexpensive in extraction, and on the global Relations.pl website 1 can read that the natural wealth there – coal, gold, nickel, oil deposits – was not utilized due to continuous conflicts, deficiency of resources and inept administration, and the reconstruction of Kosovo will be financed, among another things, by American and British companies, which will besides take care of the usage of these natural resources.
Very sad news (actuality) for all people and countries boundlessly devoted and blindly believing in the alleged Western democracy embodied in the US and the countries of the European Union.
Jacek Mędrzycki
