Reply #115: You don't feel the need to support your bogus claims? [View All]

I guess if you did, you would have provided some by now.


Or at least looked up the sources I provided.

The prosecution case in The Hague did not substantiate the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo prior to the NATO aggression. You can look it up -- a plethora of witness statements (from the spook Walker to NATO commanders and countless boorish Albanian separatists) -- but all inconsequential and in the case of the latter predictably unreliable. The closest they came to something like proof was a "statistical analysis" by some young up-and-comer from HRW, the (N)GO that is mostly funded by certain private interests and is constantly meddling in internal affairs of numerous states that do sometimes not totally comply with the Corporate Agenda (Venezuela, Cuba, Sudan etc.).

Nevertheless, these ongoing court procedures provide interesting insights, I guess this is why you'll be hard put to find anything about them in the media.

http://www.domovina.net/tribunal/page_001.php


What was reported at the time, but quickly swept under the rug, were documents from the Germany Foreign Office with statements such as the following:

"Even in Kosovo an explicit political persecution linked to Albanian ethnicity is not verifiable. The East of Kosovo is still not involved in armed conflict. Public life in cities like Pristina, Urosevac, Gnjilan, etc. has, in the entire conflict period, continued on a relatively normal basis." The "actions of the security forces (were) not directed against the Kosovo-Albanians as an ethnically defined group, but against the military opponent and its actual or alleged supporters."

Intelligence report from the Foreign Office, January 12, 1999 to the Administrative Court of Trier (Az: 514-516.80/32 426)

http://www.transnational.org/features/germandoc.html

TFF refers to the published documents in the German press: "Junge Welt", a left wing newspaper funded by the PDS, as far as I know. The existence of these reports was not denied - however, following the publication shortly after the Kosovo invasion began, the findings and assessments were "withdrawn" and the Secretary of State in the Foreign Office at the time, Ludger Vollmer, "explained" that they now took a different view of things. Umhm. Prominent German members of the Kosovo verification mission disagreed - then and later. See e. g. Heinz Loquai: Der Kosovo-Konflikt - Wege in einen vermeidbaren Krieg, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000.