The film premiered January 17, 2000 on PBS and is narrated by. Frontline: war in europe: a kosovo chronology. Frontline: War in Europe. The United States in the Balkans. Historical Maps of the Balkans. Bosnia Maps from Bosnia. Bosnian Serb Concentration Camps (PBS/Frontline) Operation Joint Endeavour (IFOR/Web Archive). Michael Maloof On US Covert Support. Cato Dubious Anniversary. CATO. INSTITUTE - WASHINGTON D. C. Dubious. Anniversary - Kosovo One Year Laterby Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz. June 2. 00. 0Text. Gumpline: War in Europe. Frontline: War in Europe, PBS. New Amnesty International Report Says NATO Committed War Crime During Kosovo Conflict. Daalder interview with PBS Frontline, “War in Europe. Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans. PDF format. Executive Summary. One year after NATO. Yugoslavia, the Clinton administration's. Kosovo policy is a conspicuous failure. Kosovo is now the scene of a. NATO's erstwhile de. Kosovo Liberation Army, an organization profoundly inimical. America's interests and professed values. The KLA is also currently. Serbia, which promises to destabilize. Balkans even further. The Clinton administration. U. S. This situation could have been avoided. Because of its inept. Kosovo's humanitarian crisis a year. KLA's postwar thuggery. It is now clear. that the administration's claims of . Even granting that doubtful premise, this is not enough. United States confronts today. In the real world, policymakers are. Although the United. States and its allies won a military victory of sorts, Washington's. Balkans and building. Kosovo have been conspicuous failures. That. result was entirely foreseeable, and now the United States and its allies. Kosovo. conflict enters a new phase: the United States and NATO are drifting. Kosovo Liberation. Army, which is still bent on forging a . Foremost among them was the. Albanians trying to expel. Albanian populations from the province' In a December. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Serbs and other non- Albanians were orchestrated. KLA. According to the report, which catalogs. Kosovo from the time 5. NATO troops entered Kosovo until October 1. Serbs and other non- Albanians included: executions, abductions, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. House. burnings, blockades restricting freedom of movement, discriminatory. Kosovo's recent past. The KLA was never rigidly structured, resembling. Some. parts of the old KLA operate openly and essentially as before: others. NATO's Rationalizations. During the first. Kosovo centered on the northern. Mitrovica- where NATO peacekeepers were caught in the crossfire. Serbs and ethnic Albanians. Among the incidents were a confrontation. Serbs and U. S. Wesley. Clark asserted, . To put it another way, Robertson. Clark point to Kosovo's declining murder rate as evidence of NATO's. In mid- April. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo arrested 1. Albanians on charges. Clearly, the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. KLA has indisputably been the. Kosovo since NATO ended its bombing campaign. Exemplifying. the Clinton administration's Alice- in- Wonder- land version of the situation. Prague speech Albright blamed . The KLA leadership. Islamic. fundamentalists, communists, drug traffickers, criminals, and ideological. Albanians who fought for the Nazis in World War. II. 1. 5 The KLA's leader hold political power among Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. Militarily, the notion that the KLA has . Contrary to Albright's. The KLA is committed. Kosovo, not to practicing democracy (indeed, it has. Albanian leaders)1. Other sources suggest that as many as 2. Albanians. (Serbs, Gypsies, Gorani, Croats, Turks, and Jews) have fled the province. NATO- protected enclaves. Moreover, in the 1. NATO. arrived, 7. Serbian Orthodox churches have been destroyed or vandalized. Albanian extremists. And, contrary to the policy of the. United States and its allies, the KLA wants Kosovo to become an independent. Greater Albania comprising Kosovo. Albania, and the parts of Serbia and Macedonia that are populated by. Albanians, The KLA's ambitions can't be reconciled with the administration's. Balkans and multiethnic. Kosovo. The KLA's Empty Promises. From the very start. KLA's proclamations that it would disarm and promote multiethnic. Kosovo have been loudly advertised by Clinton administration. But those proclamations have consistently turned out to be. In the most outrageous example of this, the Clinton administration. Hashim Thaci, the putative leader of the KLA, to take a public. Kosovo after. NATO arrived in June 1. Thaci relented and posted a call for an end. KLA's Web site. The Clinton administration characterized. Kosovo actually have Internet. Thaci's posting was also in English, a language widely understood. Kosovo. Meanwhile. Kosova Press, a news agency with ties to the KLA, issued veiled death. Veton Surroi and Baton Haxhiu, when their Albanian- language. Koha Ditore, criticized the revenge attacks on Serbs and. If that does not. KLA's commitment to Washington's goal of. Kosovo, more recent events certainly should. Indeed, according to the Washington Post,Despite the agreement.. In addition, some members of the militia group. U. S.- patrolled area. Kosovo and the neutral zone, where they undergo military training. The UN Human Rights Commission Report. Not all diplomats. Clinton administration's, however. Jiri Dienstbier. former foreign minister of the Czech Republic and now a UN special envoy. UN Human. Rights Commission in which he sharply criticizes NATO's air war against. Yugoslavia and the KLA's subsequent actions. According to Dienstbier. It only multiplied the. Klaus Reinhardt, the former commander of NATO s peacekeeping. KFOR, has warned that tensions between Serbs and Abanians could result. Kosovo. One of Reinhardt's. Presevo valley, where former KLA rebels have been. Reinhardt has expressed skepticism that the group. I do not believe them. Washington has hesitated to crack down on the. KLA, because U. S. The March and April arms seizures. KFOR may prove to be the opening round of the next conflict in Kosovo- a. KLA. As a senior NATO officer. The Clinton administration has painted the United. States and its allies into a dangerous corner. At the same time. United States with another open- ended. Balkans. Joseph Collins. Army colonel and coauthor of an extensive study on the state. NATO ground forces will be in Kosovo. That is the Kosovo war's dirty little secret. Although the background. Kosovo crisis is complex, its immediate cause is readily identifiable. Serbian leadership and the province's. Albanian nationalists. As the overwhelming majority of the province's. Kosovo's ethnic Albanians have invoked the principle. Serbia. The obvious solution would have been to partition the province. Rambouillet talks that preceded the war. In Kosovo, neither. Albanians nor the Serbs have ever shown any inclination to. Clinton administration's vision of a society shaped by the. As they are elsewhere. Balkans, ethnic fragmentation, competition for power, and the. Ethnic identities. Thus, although Secretary Alb right claims that. Bosnia is becoming a multiethnic state, the truth is that the war there. Bosnia's de facto partition into separate Serbian, Muslim. Croatian entities, and an uneasy peace prevails only because the. Similarly, the conflict between. Serbia and Croatia ended in 1. Croatian army (with the. United States) succeeded in expelling Croatia's. Serbian minority,Washington's Myopia about the Kosovo Struggle. At Rambouillet. instead of considering partition and seeking serious negotiations with. Belgrade, the Clinton administration presented the Serbs with an ultimatum. Among other things, Belgrade would have. NATO forces, not only into Kosovo, but into the. Yugoslavia and to accept the near certainty that a KLA- led Kosovo. Milosevic was like Hitler, an. There were several notorious massacres of ethnic. Albanians in KLA- controlled areas. Thus, the war in Kosovo before the. NATO bombing was a particularly brutal form of modern conflict, a counterinsurgency. In counterinsurgencies. Although both parties. Yugoslav security forces. It's widely. agreed that from the beginning of 1. March 2. 4, 1. 99. Albanians. but also Serbs, died in Kosovo as a result of the fighting and of deliberate. On March 2. 0, 1. NATO. bombing- the New York Times reported that there were 2. Albanian. refugees in Kosovo, but they were attempting to flee the fighting between. KLA and the Yugoslav army and were not targets of systematic ethnic. Before the start of the NATO bombing campaign on March. Yugoslav army's operations were directed at rooting out the. KLA from its strongholds, not at forcibly expelling ethnic Albanians. The Clinton administration. Yugoslavia's actions in Kosovo as almost unprecedentedly brutal. Yugoslav government's. Military analyst Jeffrey Record. U. S. During the war, at least 5. South Vietnam's peasantry. The KLA knew it could. Belgrade on its own, so, to advance the cause of independence. Kosovo, it needed to bring into play the military might of the United. States and NATO. Dugi Gorani, a Kosovo Albanian negotiator interviewed. BBC documentary, bluntly pointed out, . The administration. Yugoslavia following the failure at Rambouillet. Yugoslavian civilians and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population. President. Clinton and his advisers continue to justify intervention, asserting. United States had not stepped in, the Serbs would have gotten. Or, as Albright put it, if America. But planning is one thing, Implementation another. Indeed, the State Department has conceded that point. As. its report on the brutality in Kosovo acknowledges: In late March 1. Serbian forces dramatically increased the scope. KLA sympathies towards a sustained and systematic. Kosovo. 4. 4Similarly, a December 1. OSCE makes it clear. NATO's bombing triggered the humanitarian catastrophe military. Indeed, according to. The Clinton administration had been told. Albanians would be the likely result of air. Moreover, there. is increasing reason to question the credibility of the Operation Horseshoe. The existence of the operation was originally publicized by. Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, on April 6, 1. NATO started bombing Serbia and at a time when German. Luftwaffes participation in the air strikes. Horseshoe- or Potkova, as the German authorities said it. Belgrade- thereafter became a staple of NATO briefings and. Milosevic had planned to expel Kosovo's. Albanians all along. State Department spokesman James Rubin cited. Operation Horseshoe as recently as March 2. NATO's bombardment. The Serbian word for horseshoe is Potkovica. Administration and NATO. Holocaust and averred.
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