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| Autor | Glenn Ruga with help by Julie Mertus |
| Titel | History of the war in Kosovo |
| Herausgeber | Center for Balkan Development |
| Datum | April 1999 |
| URL | https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20041009142830/http://www.balkandevelopment.org:80/edu_kos.html |
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| During the long years of war in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo remained under the tight control of Milosevic. The Kosovars responded by setting up parallel civil administration, schools and healthcare facilities. They also resisted the Milosevic regime with nonviolent Gandhian tactics. All the time, the Kosovars hoped the international community would recognize their plight and come to their aid. Despite periodic reports by human rights investigators and international diplomats of gross and systematic human rights violations against Kosovars, the international community did nothing. The final straw for Kosovars was Dayton, when the international community had the upper hand with Milosevic, yet completely ignored the problem of Kosovo. The Kosovars even attempted to attend Dayton, but they were not allowed to leave their plane and were sent back across the Atlantic. This demonstrated to the Kosovars that the international community was not going to come to their support. It also demonstrated that non-violent tactics were not going to get the world’s attention. Only tremendous human rights abuses as had been suffered by the Bosnian Muslims would force the world to intervene.
With the situation in Kosovo only getting worse and with tit for tat retaliations by the Serb forces, finally in 28 November 1997, at a funeral for a Kosovar teacher killed by Serbian forces, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) stood up publically and asked for the support from the Kosovars and international community (NATO intervention, to prevent the war in large scale). |
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During the long years of war in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia, Kosovo remained under the tight control of Milosevic. The Kosovar Albanians responded by setting up a parallel civil adminstration [sic], schools, and healthcare facilities. They also resisted the Milosevic regime with nonviolent, Gandhian tactics under the leadership of Ibrahim Rugova. All this time, the Kosovar Albanians hoped the international community would recognize their plight and come to their aid. Despite periodic reports by human rights investigators and international diplomats on gross and systematic human rights violations against Kosovar Albanians, the international community did nothing. The final straw for the Kosovar Albanians was Dayton, when the international community had the upper hand with Milosevic yet completely ignored the problem in Kosovo. The Kosovars even attempted to attend Dayton, but were not allowed to leave their plane and were sent back across the Atlantic. This demonstrated to the Kosovars that the international community was not going to come to their support. It also demonstrated that nonviolent tactics were not going to get the world's attention. Only tremendous human rights abuses as suffered by the Bosnian Muslims would force the world to intervene. With the situation in Kosovo only getting worse, and tit for tat retaliations by the Serb forces, finally in November 1997, at a funeral for slain Kosovars, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) stood up publicly and asked for support from the Kosovo Albanian community. |
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| [The first major] massacre occurred in Prekaz383, in the spring of 1998 when 51 members of extended family of Adem Jashari384 were killed and their body massacred by the Serbians.385 Again, despite detailed reports of human rights investigators, the international community did nothing other than issue Milosevic an empty warning. Throughout 1998 Milosevic increased his troop strength in Kosovo and began a scorched-earth policy of destroying whole villages in his attempt to wipe out the KLA. But for each village destroyed, more KLA members would sprout up in defiance. Kosovo's Srebrenica occurred in January 1999 when Serb forces in a series of massacres killed 41 civilians in the Kosovo village of Racak. While international mediators called it a massacre, Milosevic claimed that the slain villagers were actually KLA terrorists in civilian clothes. International forensic experts were soon to prove this untrue.
The violence continued to escalate. Finally a group of nations known as the Contact Group386 brought both Kosovo387 and Serb388 negotiators together in Rambouillet/Paris in March 1999 to agree to a peace plan. While the negotiations were going on, Milosevic continued to pour heavy weapons and troops into Kosovo. 383 Central part of Kosovo, known as Drenica region. 384 Who has became the legendary hero of the freedom and independent Kosovovo. [sic] 385 Well known tactics of the Serbian forces that has been used in Bosnia and Croati before with the aim to scary civilians for realising the ethnic clearing. The masscred bodies were brodacsted at that time by the medias, even those controlled by the regime. [sic!] 386 The Contact Group was composed by the USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. 387 Kosovo delegation was leaded by the Head of Political Directorate of KLA Mr Hashim Thaqi. 388 Serbian delegation by the Prime Minister of Serbia. |
The first major massacre occurred in the Drenica region in the spring of 1998 when 51 members of an extended clan were killed by Serb forces in retaliation for a KLA provocation. Again, despite detailed reports of human rights investigators, the international community did nothing other than issue Milosevic an empty warning.
[...] Throughout 1998 Milosevic increased his troop strength in Kosovo and began a scorched-earth policy of destroying whole villages in his attempt to wipe out the KLA. But for each village destroyed, more KLA members would sprout up in defiance. The Srebrenica of Kosovo occurred in January 1999 when Serb forces killed 41 civilians in the Kosovo village of Racak. While international mediators called it a massacre, Milosevic claimed that the slain villagers were actually KLA terrorists in civilian clothes. International forensic experts were soon to prove this untrue. Rambouillet [...] The violence continued to escalate. Finally a group of nations known as the Contact Group (the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia) brought both Kosovo and Serb negotiators together in Rambouillet, France, in March 1999 to agree to a peace plan. [...] While negotiations were going on in Rambouillet, Milosevic continued to pour heavy weapons and troops into Kosovo. |
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| The international community pulled all monitors out of Kosovo in late March. This was the green light Milosevic was waiting for and had begun preparations for a massive sweep of Kosovo as his forces sutured [sic] the region. Meanwhile, the USA still hoped that Milosevic would give in. Even as the killing had already begun in Kosovo, Richard Holbrooke made one last, unsuccessful attempt to convince Milosevic to sign, explaining in detail what NATO would do to his military infrastructure if he refused.
After years of hollow threats against Milosevic and years of Milosevic destroying much of Bosnia and part of Croatia, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and responsible for escalating human rights abuses in Kosovo, NATO finally was determined to move ahead. While always hoping that Milosevic would finally back down with the credible threat of force, NATO did not possess much [credibility at that decisive moment.] |
The international community pulled all monitors out of Kosovo in late March. This was the green light Milosevic was waiting for and he began preparations for a massive sweep of Kosovo as his forces saturated the region. Meanwhile, the U.S. still hoped that Milosevic would give in. Even as the killing had already begun in Kosovo, Richard Holbrooke made one last, unsuccessful attempt to convince Milosevic to sign, explaining in detail what NATO would do to his military infrastructure if he refused.
NATO Bombing After years of hollow threats against Milosevic and years of Milosevic destroying much of Bosnia and part of Croatia, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and responsible for escalating human rights abuses in Kosovo, NATO was finally determined to move ahead. While always hoping that Milosevic would finally back down with the credible threat of force, NATO did not posses [sic] much credibility at that decisive moment. |
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| On 24 March 1999, NATO launched an air campaign against Serb military targets in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.
Milosevic forces responded by an all-out campaign to ethically [sic] cleanse Kosovo of its Albanian population, driving hundreds of thousands across the borders into Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. |
On March 24 NATO launched an air campaign against Serb military targets in Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Milosevic's forces responded by an all-out campaign to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of its Albanian population, driving hundreds of thousands across the border into Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro. |
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