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Pravda
29.03.2006
Front page / Opinion / Columnists
The hypocrisy of Western realpolitik
The different standards followed in the cases of Slobodan Milosevic
and the Albanian terrorist Agim Ceku show the true mettle of the
western realpolitik - based on an absence of values and a total
disregard for common decency, the rule of law and any civilized
precepts of policy making.
The history of the Kosovo Liberation Army is badly documented in
western circles but is extremely well documented inside Serbia. The
KLA (Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, in Albanian) was responsible for
countless acts of terrorism and crime, selling women into
prostitution, selling arms illegally and trafficking drugs from
Afghanistan and Turkey onto Europe's streets.
The leaders of this band of terrorists, aided and abetted, funded and
equipped by eternal bedfellows Al-Qaeda and the CIA, have been treated
with astonishing leniency by the west, which thought nothing of
kidnapping and detaining Slobodan Milosevic illegally, forcing him to
undergo an unfair and unbalanced trial and then denying him the
conditions which would have saved his life.
Compare this with the fact that the newly-appointed Prime Minister of
Kosovo, Agim Ceku, has been dropped from the list of wanted persons by
Interpol just because he was appointed by the Albanian-dominated
Parliament, despite the fact that Serbia has an international warrant
for his arrest, along with Hashim Thaci, co-leader of the UCK, on
suspicion of war crimes.
Jogging the memory
If the west has problems remembering why Ceku was on the list and then
removed, let us jog their collective memory. He was on the list
because as a brigadier-general in the Croatian Army, he had been
responsible for masterminding the massacre of Medak (1993) and then
Operation Storm, the US-backed ethnic cleansing of 200.000 Serbs from
Krajina (1995), where shocking acts of barbarity were perpetrated by
the Croatian forces amid acts of terrorism with the complicity of the
USA against Serb civilians. The International Criminal Tribunal itself
has declared that during this massacre, "In a widespread and
systematic manner, Croatian troops committed murder and other inhumane
acts upon and against Croatian Serbs." As a co-leader of the KLA, he
was responsible also for the massacre of Serb civilians.
Yet why is Ceku free and why is Milosevic dead?
The reason why is because Ceku is the darling of Washington since he
was willing to do as he was told and allow the Balkans bloodbath to
unfold, orchestrated by his American masters who had already decided
that the guys in the black hat were the Serbs.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Serbian News Network - SNN
[email protected]
http://www.antic.org/
