Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008
<http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc-all.html> READERS IN COUNCIL <http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc-all.html> Misguided efforts against Serbs By MICHAEL PRAVICA Henderson, Nevada Thank you for publishing professor Raju Thomas' Jan. 3 article, "The case <http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20080103a1.html> against Kosovo independence." For over 60 years, Albanian extremists have sought to create an ethnically and religiously "pure" Kosovo by ethnically cleansing and slaughtering Kosovo's non-Albanian inhabitants and destroying non-Albanian cultural monuments. With Western aid, they have nearly succeeded in realizing their fascist dream as hundreds of thousands of Serbians have been cleansed from Kosovo, thousands have been murdered, and over 130 churches and monasteries (some more than 1,300 years old) have been destroyed. Granting illegal independence to Kosovo will encourage terrorists the world over that they can successfully alter the borders of sovereign nations by force. Consider, for example, Turkey's recent war against the Kurds. Granting Kosovo illegal independence will also hurt Serbia's fledgling democracy and unravel the entire Balkans, as Albanian extremists have their sights on Macedonia, Montenegro and even parts of Greece for their "Greater Albania" project. It's high time to cease Western misguided efforts against the Serbs. The destructive consequences for international law and respect for sovereign nations are incalculable and irreversible. The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20080108a2.html
