The crime and tragedy of Kosovo

As a result of America’s demented and criminal intrusion into the Kosovo conflict ten years ago, Kosovo is “now decisively lost to the Serbs, and therefore to Christian civilisation,” writes John Laughland at Brussels Journal. His article concludes:

A war waged in the name of human rights in 1999 has led to nothing less than genocide—the wholesale eradication both of the Serb population of Kosovo since then (the few remaining Serbs live in ghettos) and of the historical memory of that population. In 1999, to justify the attack on Yugoslavia, the US State Department published a document called “Erasing History” which documented the alleged genocide against the Albanians. Now we know that the bulk of that document was war propaganda, its claims unproven despite years spent trying to prove them at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Yet “Erasing History” is precisely what the Albanians have done in Kosovo since NATO occupied the province, and on its watch. They have also erased democracy, human rights, and all the basic tenets of common human decency. The history of the last ten years in Kosovo is nothing but tragedy and hypocrisy blended into one—a true death of the West and all it stands for.

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Gintas writes:

That was a war against Western Christians and for Muslims, in Europe. That’s not just a deal with the devil, that’s sitting down and having a good meal with him, with laughter and good cheer and toasts to future success. The malevolence behind that war has not been repented of; no, it flourishes and is emboldened: the same elites are today still swaggering about the corridors of power. It’s one of the reasons I have deep, grave doubts about this country’s future.

Michael S. writes:

What I would like to know is, why were there large numbers of Albanians living in Kosovo in the so-called “first” place? They have their own country. It’s called “Albania.” Why not just live among Albanians? Or are there some larger religio-historical principles at work here? Religio-historical principles which have no bearing on any American “national interests” worthy of the name.

Bill Clinton will have some explaining to do when his Day comes. But he will have nothing to say. (cf. Matthew 22:11-12: “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment; and he said to him, “Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?” And he was speechless.)

LA replies:

I don’t get the Gospel reference, but as for Kosovo, there’s no mystery. It had a significant and growing Albanian population over a period of hundreds of years, which at a certain point became the majority. Then it became a straightfoward matter of who would control Kosovo.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 28, 2008 02:52 PM | Send