-Caveat Lector-
4-4-1999, Mark wrote:
>(snip)
>> As for her point about the mines, it is indeed likely that these
>> mines play a role in motivating the current holocaust -- on the
>> Serbian side. If, as she claims, the mines are worth $5 billion,
>> that would certainly explain Milosevic' determination to hold on
>> to them. It would not explain the US interest in the Kosovo
>> genocide, which is going to end up costing the United States
>> a lot more than $5 billion ...
Probably this should read '$5 trillion' - (not $5 billion) ...
As posted recently here ( Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines' )
[following the same article by Sara Flounders] :
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from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36fd198d79a4.htm
Topic: Kosovo
There is another factor in this, something the rapacious
World Bank, IMF and the UN are interested in -- the estimated
$17 trillion in natural resources in Serbia/Kosovo.
Kosovo has one of Europe's largest reserves of coal and lignite
while Serbia alone has huge deposits of aluminum ore. Albania has
large reserves of crude oil, which was part of the reason why
Marshal Tito, after WWII, wanted to absorb Albania into Yugoslavia.
The other was that Tito feared an extreme Maoist Albania (which
retained the USSR Stalinist policy until 1961) being a Red Chinese
version of Cuba in Europe, one whose seacoast straddled the
eastern part of the only seaborne way in and out of the Adriatic,
the Strait of Otranto.
Given the fact that Albania was not absorbed into Yugoslavia,
Tito for years attempted to keep Tirane's Stalinist/Maoist maniacs
happy by allowing ethnic Albanian migration into Kosovo beginning
with some 400,000 being allowed in during 1945-48. Pre-WWII Serb
land deeds in Kosovo were cancelled and Albanians were given the
Eastern European version of "affirmative action" in jobs, housing
and the like.
In the 1970s, the Albanians began their terror campaign against
the Serbs, banning the Serb Cyrillic alphabet, banning the works of
Serb authors and other artists and getting Serbs fired from their
jobs. Violence began to escalate in the early 1980s after Tito's
death, and got so bad by 1988 (the worst being mass rape of Serb
Orthodox nuns) troops had to be sent in. This is where Milosevich
rose to power, in successfully quelling the violence, at least for
a brief time.
In 1991, the news media insisted that "Albanians represented 1.2
million in Kosovo." In 1994 they said 1.4 million. In 1996 they
insisted it was 1.6 million. Today we are told Albanians are "90%
of 2 million" - as though we are unable to calculate this means
1.8 million, another mysterious 200,000 increase. Borrowing from
Socrates, "scarcely a word of what they said is true." The media
continues to omit that more than 400,000 Albanians are illegal
aliens who crossed the border into Kosovo as easily as illegals
cross our border into San Diego, Tucson, El Paso and Brownsville
each night as we sleep. How compelling that US troops are
defending borders in 100 countries, we aren't defending our own.
Today, the US State Department claims Serbs are 10% of Kosovo,
with no explanation that they claimed Serbs were 14% in 1991.
Were 4% killed, expelled, or just made invisible? They also
tell us the Gypsies are 7%, the Greeks 2.3%, the Turks 1.5%, the
Montenegrins 2%, and others 1%. By my calculations that means the
Albanians can't possibly represent more than 50% of Kosovo, after
subtracting the 400,000 illegals and the 300,000 who fled to
England, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, most of whom have no
desire to return to the poverty and terror in Kosovo.
Another point that hasn't been raised much is that Tito, for all
of his faults and mistakes in postwar Yugoslavia, never subscribed
to gun control or disarming the populace. I recall when I visted
Yugoslavia in the late 1970s, every home at which I was a guest
had at least one modern firearm, be it a handgun, rifle or shotgun.
In fact, at the time, villagers could obtain surplus WWII German,
Italian, British and even US firearms very easily.
I recall that many Serb villagers especially would coat the weapon
in some kind of heavy grease, wrap it in plastic and put it in a
box and bury it in the ground usually near the barn or house.
From: MK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *
03/27/99 10:02:32 PST
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