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Kosovo: Soul of a Nation
11.09.2007
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Kosovo, properly known as Kosovo and Metohija (Kosmet) is lawfully and legally
a province of Serbia. This fact was recognized in UN Security Council
Resolution 1244, adopted at the end of the 1999 war against Serbia. UN
Resolution 1244 reaffirmed “the adhesion of all states’ members to the
principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federative Republic
of Yugoslavia,” a country of which the current Republic of Serbia is the heir.
However, the proposals and demands in negation of this signed document reveal
the empire’s total disregard for international law and agreements it makes.
The name Kosovo is derived from the Serbian name for the blackbird (kos) and
Kosovo is thereby "the land of the blackbird" while the name of Metohija
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Metohija/> denotes a monastery estate, the
region in which the Serbian Patriarchate of Pec, pronounced "Petch" and the old
Serbian <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Serbian_/> monasteries are located.
Serbia is a republic of about 10 million people and includes a Muslim Albanian
minority of about 2 million people, most of whom live in Kosovo.
Kosovo and Metohija is the historical cradle of Serbia
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Serbia/> ’s national and spiritual identity
and the location of many churches, monasteries, and other holy sites, many of
which have already been destroyed by Albanian terrorists as part of their
campaign to remove all remaining Serbs as well as the memory that they were
ever there. Kosovo was the center of the Serbian Kingdom
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Serbian_Kingdom/> in the Middle Ages, a fully
developed medieval Serbian culture that survived five centuries of harsh
Ottoman rule until liberated in 1912. Many monasteries of Serbian-Byzantine
<http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Serbian-Byzantine/> architectural style
including Studenitca, Decani and Gracanica bear witness to a highly developed
Serbian culture. The economic and cultural progress of Serbia was above the
average European level. Dusan <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Dusan/> 's Code
of Laws (Zakonik), formulated in 1349-1354, shows the advanced social structure
of the Serbian state.
Because of unrelenting Turkish persecution, large numbers of Serbs were forced
to leave the Kosovo region . In their place, Muslim Albanians were settled in
ever-increasing numbers. This continued during WWII as part of a plan by
Mussolini and Hitler to eliminate Serbs. By the end of WWII, the Kosovo area
was already about 70% Albanian. Albanian terrorists are now finishing what they
were unable to complete during World War II.
According to the data from the Serbian Orthodox Church, nearly 150 churches and
monasteries have been destroyed in Kosovo and Metohija, the cradle of Serbian
Orthodoxy, and most Serbs have been driven off of their land. Only a few
surviving churches and ruins of churches stand as tacit reminders of the past
of that land. It is not just cultural monuments or sacred sites that have been
destroyed. What has been profaned is the very soul of a nation with rich
traditions and outstanding courage, a nation which helped to liberate Europe
from fascism, sacrificing to that victory about a million of its people.
Kosovo, 100 years before Columbus set sail for the New World, was the
embodiment of the belief that no man had a right to rule another. Rather than
consent to become slaves to tyranny, the Serbs willingly and defiantly gave
their lives. Kosovo is deeply entrenched in the Serbian soul. The memory of the
1389 Serbian defeat by the Turks in the Battle of Kosovo Polje (Blackbird
Field) on 28th June 1389 is a large part of Serbian historical consciousness
and heritage.
The Serbian army, led by prince Lazar, fought the heroic battle of Kosovo
Polje. At the beginning of the battle, Serbian warriors were able to advance.
Milos Obilic, the most famous hero of this Kosovo battle, killed the Turkish
King Murad. Then the Turkish army regrouped and overran the Serbs. They
captured Prince Lazar alive, but beheaded him shortly thereafter. The Serbs of
Kosovo Polje paid dearly with the staggering loss of 77,000 lives in one day of
battle.
The following Serbian epic poem bears witness to the meaning of Kosovo in the
hearts and souls of the noble, brave Serbian people:
My son, you will remember that grave oath-
Lazarus exhorted us like this:
'Whoever is a Serb, of Serbian blood,
Whoever shares with me this heritage,
And he comes not to fight at Kosovo,
May he never have the progeny
His heart desires, neither son nor daughter;
Beneath his hand let nothing decent grow-
Neither purple grapes nor wholesome wheat;
Let him rust away like dripping iron
Until his name shall be extinguished!'"
A Greater Albania was initially a plan of Mussolini and Hitler. Giving Kosovo
to the Albanians by making it an independent state is tantamount to approval of
the fascist behavior of Albanians during the Second World War when they sided
with Hitler, and it condones the incessant horrific acts of terrorism
perpetrated by the KLA against fellow Albanians, Serbs and other non-Albanians.
Kosovo today has been turned into a breeding ground of terrorism for the whole
of Europe, a center for human trafficking and a transfer point for drug
dealers. The KLA is known to have ties to Osama Bin Laden and is listed by the
US State Department as a terrorist organization. However, President Clinton
found them useful as poster boy “freedom fighters” and had them removed from
the terrorist list in 1999.
After illegally immigrating to Kosovo and ultimately becoming the majority of
the Kosovo population, the Albanians demanded independence. They perpetrated
daily acts of terrorism and lawless brutality. The Serbian army was fighting a
war against terrorism and criminality, and the empire sided with the terrorists
and criminals. Independence, however, is not what they really want. They want
to ethnically cleanse the area of Serbs. Today Serbs are only 10% of the
population. They live in ghetto like conditions and are in fear of leaving
their fortified neighborhoods at the risk of exposing themselves to violence.
They are prisoners in their homes and prisoners in their own country. Albanians
have been intensifying their habitual stealing, raping and murderous behavior
against the Serbs since the intervention of the empire.
The empire, instead of recognizing and dealing with Albanian savage violence,
is insisting that the Serbs leave their own country. After this ethnic
cleansing is complete, an Albanian independent Kosovo will most likely unify
itself to Albania. Amid the lies and disinformation regarding Serbian so-called
misdeeds in dealing with these terrorists, you will not hear that manyAlbanians
sought the protection of Serb soldiers in Kosovo from the KLA. Should the
empire succeed in its plans to steal Kosovo from its rightful and historical
owners, criminal figures will come closer than ever to their goal of total
control of Kosovo with withdrawal of international forces.
Western corporate elitists regard Kosovo as a place to make some money by
exploiting its minerals, using it as a transport corridor and by gaining
lucrative contracts from governments and organizations involved with the
occupation forces. Well documented Albanian organized crime consists of
organizations with guerrilla and espionage experience. The names Ramush
Haradinaj, Hashim Thachi and Xhavit Haliti are notorious criminal leaders being
protected and given immunity from the law. Both UNMIK and KFOR have been
infiltrated by agents of organized crime.
With the empire’s narrow materialistic view, it would never occur to them to
think of Kosovo <http://english.pravda.ru/filing/Kosovo/> , or any land
anywhere for that matter as sacred ground, whose resources are to be used with
care and only for the benefit of the rightful owners. What keeps happening to
invaders and occupiers who attempt to exploit Serbia for their own ends? How
did Serbia become known as the "graveyard of empires"? Its people have routed
the Nazis, smashed the teeth of the Hohenzollerns and trampled the scepters of
the Hapsburgs – not to mention surviving five centuries of oppression under the
Ottoman Turks.
Yet, the Serbs are neither submissive nor broken. At the time when the entire
world was shaking in its boots appeasing and surrendering before renewed German
might during World War II, Serbs fought valiantly, selflessly and bravely as
surrender was a concept that was alien to them. The Serbs paid dearly for their
stubbornness and devotion to freedom. More than a million of them perished in
World War II alone, most in today’s Bosnia and Croatia.
It's no secret that the presence of mineral resources in Kosovo was one of the
major reasons for occupying it. It's also clear that KFOR/UNMIK, with its
partners among the supposedly "disbanded" KLA, had hoped to exploit the mineral
resources of the Trepca Mines for their own ends, without regard to the
rightful ownership of the mines and factories. It obvious upon investigation
that the USA equipped and trained the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) for use
against the Serbs in Kosovo in order to give the USA domination over a
strategic area of Eastern Europe.
The only country standing up for the rule of law, common sense and reason is
the Russian Federation…the only country that fully recognizes the historical,
legal and moral truths in this matter. According to Nebojsa Malic, “Speculation
by legions of Imperial commentators that Russia was just playing and would
eventually go along was shattered at the Heiligendamm summit earlier this year.
And this week, Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear where
Moscow stood: “There are so-called ‘red line' issues for Russia… There we
cannot fail to react and we must stick to our position to the end.” He
identified Kosovo as one of those.”
The words of General Leonid Ivashov best summarize the situation, “The setting
up of a gangster state based on the Kosovo enclave meets the interests of the
world's oligarchate that is striving to consolidate the power of money and
criminal organisations globally. Kosovo and Metohija are now the most important
joint strong point in the fight for a just world order; for the preservation of
national statehood as the basis of development of international relations and
for the prospects of people retaining their Russian, Serbian, German or French
identities. Who will win? No doubt the victory will be Serbian.”
Once again, the brave Serbian people are making a stand and refusing to bow
before yet another brutal, tyrannical empire. The Serbs will never give in. All
freedom loving people worldwide will support the Serbs and will rejoice when
victory is theirs. They will oppose the grave injustice the empire is trying to
impose. History teaches us that the Serbian territories in the Balkans have
been a graveyard of empires. Most definitely in this case, this particular
empire has miscalculated badly and it will prove quite costly to disregard the
lessons of history.
Lisa KARPOVA
PRAVDA.Ru
USA/CANADA
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