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> Kosovo rebels denounce peace bid
>
> By Liz Sly
> Tribune Foreign Correspondent
> May 7, 1999
>
> CONTINUING COVERAGE
> Keep up with updated coverage on the bombings in Yugoslavia.
>
> TIRANA, Albania -- The Kosovo Liberation Army Thursday said it would not
> agree to lay down its arms under terms of the accord reached in Bonn for
> ending the Kosovo conflict, offering a hint of just one of the difficulties
> any peace settlement may encounter.
>
> "After all that has happened in Kosovo in the past months, we cannot discuss
> the disarming of the KLA," said Jakup Krasniqi, a senior KLA spokesman, in
> response to the accord reached between NATO and Russia on the shape of
> future security arrangements for Kosovo.
>
> The accord includes a provision for the disarmament of the guerrilla army,
> which is fighting Serb forces inside Kosovo and along its border with
> Albania. The KLA seeks full Kosovo independence, not the "autonomy" sought
> by NATO.
>
> "The conditions under which the KLA will agree to disarm do not exist and I
> do not think they will ever exist in the Balkans," Krasniqi said. "Such a
> demand is very unjust."
>
> Until now, the KLA has largely been discounted in efforts to reach a
> solution to the Kosovo crisis. It is lightly armed and inexperienced, and
> its leaders readily acknowledge that it is no match for the professionally
> trained, well-armed Yugoslav army.
>
> But it does have guns, and its ranks have been swelled by thousands, perhaps
> tens of thousands, of new recruits from among the refugees forced from their
> homes by the Serbs. KLA claims that it has 60,000 adherents both inside
> Kosovo and along Albania's borders cannot be substantiated.
>
> The KLA is adamantly opposed to any kind of deal that would uphold Serb
> sovereignty over Kosovo, something President Clinton has insisted must be
> maintained to protect the integrity of disputed borders throughout the
> Balkans.
>
> "This war makes no sense unless it results in the independence of Kosovo.
> There is no other solution," Krasniqi said.
>
> Political divisions among the fractious Kosovars are also deepening as the
> conflict progresses. The shared horror of the brutality they have suffered
> at Serb hands in recent weeks has temporarily masked those differences, but
> they threaten to erupt into squabbles over who will control Kosovo's future
> if a peace settlement is reached.
>
> On the eve of the NATO bombing campaign, the KLA commanded the support of a
> relatively small minority of Kosovars, most of whom had shunned the
> guerrillas' embrace of violence in favor of the pacifist approach of the
> interim Kosovo government of President Ibrahim Rugova.
>
> But when the mass expulsions of Kosovars began, support for the KLA soared.
> Rugova's appearance alongside Milosevic on television appealing for an end
> to the bombing campaign caused many of his supporters to doubt his
> leadership.
>
> The KLA has now set up its own "government" of Kosovo and denounces the one
> established under Rugova's presidency as a "traitor" and ally of Belgrade.
>
> But Rugova's government continues to assert its existence as the true
> representative of the Kosovo people because it was elected by an
> overwhelming majority in clandestine elections held in 1997. It vilifies the
> KLA as undemocratic and accuses it of Marxist-Leninist tendencies.
>
> Rugova was allowed to leave Kosovo on Wednesday and at a press conference in
> Rome Thursday he threw his support behind NATO participation in a
> peacekeeping force.
>
> There is also a small KLA faction loyal to Rugova's government, though the
> bulk of the guerrilla army answers to the KLA-backed government. Although
> their political leaders cannot agree, on the front lines the two KLA
> factions are fighting as one army, according to KLA fighters on both sides
> and independent observers.
>
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