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The Washington Times 8 March 2008 Letters to the Editor Serbs under siege Sami Repishti's letter Thursday is an insult to Kosovo history. A real genocide of the Serbs is taking place. Serbs were a simple majority of Kosovo for hundreds of years until the Holocaust, when Albanian Nazis liquidated tens of thousands of Serbs and expelled more than 150,000 people. Josip Broz Tito forbade their return after the war and gave their land to the Albanian Nazis who had fought for Hitler. In the past five years, 155 ancient Serbian churches have been destroyed under the noses of 17,000 NATO troops. When Mr. Tito granted autonomy to Albanians in 1974 without a vote of the Yugoslav people, the Albanian authorities banned the Serbian language, fired Serbs from their jobs and collected and burned more than 2 million books on Serbian history, religion and culture. For Mr. Repishti to pretend that Albanians were victimized by the Serbs is an appalling rewriting of the facts and reveals the extent to which the facts are distorted through propaganda, which exploits Western ignorance of Balkan history. Nearly 40 percent of the Albanians in Kosovo are illegal aliens who crossed the border from Albania into Kosovo. Mr. Repishti does not mention that more than 400,000 Albanians fled into Serbian-dominated regions of Macedonia and Montenegro and that 90,000 Albanians fled to Belgrade into the arms of Mr. Milosevic and their Serbian enemies. What is immoral about the Repishti letter is the implication that it is acceptable to cleanse 300,000 Serbs, to destroy 155 of their ancient churches and to punish Serbs by amputating their religious heartland just because someone thinks they do not deserve equal human or legal rights. Serbs also deserve justice for their victimization under Albanian terrorism. WILLIAM DORICH Los Angeles
