KOSOVO DECLARATION GIVES SERBIA CLARITY
www.slobodan-milosevic.org - February 18, 2008

Written by: Andy Wilcoxson

On February 17th Kosovo’s Albanians proclaimed independence from Serbia. Although unrecognized by the UN, several Western states have extended diplomatic recognition to the Albanian separatist regime in Pristina.

NATO’s high-minded rhetoric about protecting “human rights” and making Kosovo safe for multi-ethnic democracy has been exposed as a fraud. After nine years under a NATO-led UN occupation, Kosovo is a largely mono-ethnic society where corruption and organized crime reign supreme.

The occupation of Kosovo has facilitated the ethnic cleansing and cultural destruction of Kosovo’s non-Albanian population. KFOR and UNMIK have permitted the Albanians to run rampant in Kosovo for the last nine years. Albanians were allowed to drive more than a quarter million Serbs, Gypsies and other non-Albanian ethnic groups out of Kosovo and NATO-led peacekeeping troops stood idly by while Albanians destroyed hundreds of medieval Serbian churches and cultural monuments.

After nine years of searching for evidence of Serbian war crimes, Slobodan Milosevic’s fabled persecution of Kosovo’s Albanians has been exposed as fiction. The combined total of Albanians left dead and missing from the war stands at less than 5,000 -- mostly KLA combatants. The only other country that has managed to wage a counterinsurgency campaign with such minimal loss of human life is the State of Israel in its ongoing fight against Palestinian terrorism.

The Albanian declaration of independence changes nothing. Kosovo’s status has only changed in the eyes of Serbia’s enemies. Serbia still has a UN Security Council resolution affirming its sovereignty over Kosovo and it still has the backing of permanent members Russia and China in the UN Security Council. International law is on Serbia’s side; as far as international law is concerned Kosovo is a Serbian province regardless of the Albanian declaration.

In one sense the Albanian declaration is a gift to Serbia. It is now crystal clear who Serbia’s friends are and who its enemies are. Since October 5, 2000 Serbia has had a government that bent over backwards to accommodate every demand that Washington and Brussels could throw at it.

There was a belief among certain circles in Serbia that there could be friendship and even partnership with the West. The people who took to the streets on October 5th and overthrew Slobodan Milosevic believed that he was responsible for the West’s hostile policies towards Serbia. They thought that they could curry the West’s favor by bringing a pro-Western government to power in Belgrade. The time for such naïve thinking is now at an end.

The picture couldn’t be clearer. On February 3rd the pro-Western candidate Boris Tadic was elected Serbian president and barely two weeks later Western capitals are falling all over themselves to break international law and extend diplomatic recognition to the separatist regime in Pristina, which - incidentally - is led by the selfsame Albanian terrorists who attacked Serbia and started the war in 1998-99.

How much success has eight years of Djindjic, Tadic, and Kostunica had in currying favor with the West? Zero, the West is just as hostile towards Serbia today as it was when Milosevic was in power. The debate about whether Serbia’s future lies with the EU and the West or with Russia and the East is solved. Serbia’s future lies with Russia because friendship with the West is impossible.

The West bombed Serbia under false pretenses and now it’s openly encouraging the theft of Serbia’s territory. The West doesn’t have friendly intentions towards Serbia no matter how pro-Western the Serbian government is. By extending diplomatic recognition to the Albanian separatists in Pristina the West has destroyed the credibility of the Serbian politicians and NGO’s who have spent the last eight years advocating “Euro-Atlantic integration”, “cooperation with The Hague Tribunal”, and EU membership.

Now all of Serbia can see who the traitors and the fifth columnists are. It is no longer a question of if the Serbian Radical Party will take power in Serbia -- it is a question of when the Serbian Radical Party will take power. The wool has been removed from people's eyes. The West's intentions towards Serbia are clear for one and all to see.    
 

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