Byzantine Blog

Albanian “Negotiators”: Independence or War!

According to The Washington Times, a member of the Albanian “negotiating team” representing separatists from the Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province, Ylber Hysa (the WT wrongly spells his last name as Hasa), announced that unless the international community amputates Serbian province from Serbia, there will be a new war in the Balkans.

In an interview this alleged “negotiator” — being that “independence or war” ultimatum can hardly be considered a stance conductive to negotiations, can it?! — gave to the American daily on February 20, Hysa said Albanian separatists “believe they already have made extensive compromises.”

I seemed to have missed these “compromises” Albanian terrorists have apparently made, let alone anything “extensive” save for extensive violence coming from that corner — when was that? And what’s the compromise — after destroying over 150 Serbian churches and monasteries, they’ll leave the remaining handful standing, is that it? Or, after killing and expelling over 300,000 mainly Serbs and other non-Albanians since the U.N./NATO took the administration of the province over from Serbia, they’ll let the remaining 100,000 live? Well, that’s certainly more than generous, I must say!

After Washington Times suggested that a “watered-down version of Ahtisaari’s proposals” might be approved by the UN Security Council (unlike this pile of crap that is bound to be vetoed), the “negotiator” on behalf of Albanian Muslim terrorists barked back:

“If you want to see a new Balkan war, that is the perfect scenario.”

Nice. It is rather encouraging to know that dialog, negotiations and open discussion have been given a chance after all, and that Serbian negotiators are indeed dealing with responsible, reasonable, civil men, and not some wild and primitive mafia-style thugs.

Cartoon by Nikola Otas