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The Washington Times
Letters to the editor
12 February 2008
What's happening in Kosovo?
Austin Bay reduces an issue on Serbian presidential elections to a simple
black-and-white choice between a "21st century fascist" and good pro-Western
President Boris Tadic ("Did Europe dodge a war?" Commentary, Friday).
Equally inadequate is Mr. Bay's explanation of what has happened in the
Serbian province of Kosovo in the past nine years.
In a letter to The Washington Post ("A Warning on Kosovo," Friday) his grace
Bishop Artemije of Kosovo said that "Serbs may disagree on the exact
response should America recognize an illegal declaration of independence,
but there is no doubt that we will defend our people and our national
territory."
President Clinton led a 78-day NATO bombing of Serbia on behalf of the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in order to punish Serbs for supposed genocide
against Kosovo Albanians that never happened.
In 1998, the State Department labeled the KLA a terrorist organization;
today it intends to award the former KLA leader Hashim Thaci, turned
president, an independent Kosovo.
Albanians in Kosovo are responsible for the ethnic cleansing of some 250,000
Serbs from Kosovo and the destruction of 156 Serbian Orthodox churches and
monasteries, a crime that represents overt ethnocide in contemporary Europe.
These verifiable facts make me wonder why the American administration still
intends to reward Albanian terror with independence.
BOBA BOROJEVIC
Ottawa
