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Albanian KLA/UCK Commanders Responsible for the Tide of Kosovo Refugees During NATO Bombardment

In her latest blog entry, Julia Gorin recovers an all but forgotten, crucial piece of information way back from November 1999 (after NATO finished reducing Serbia to rubble and has occupied its southern Kosovo province).

Report by Max Sinclair, published by the Columbia University, ripped to shreds the favorite MSM “ethnic cleansing by Milosevic’s forces” myth, showing it was the terrorist Albanian KLA/UCK who were orchestrating and conducting the campaign of expelling Albanians from the province during NATO aggression on FR Yugoslavia, in order to feign a “humanitarian catastrophe,” justifying Western aggression on Serbs — the fact Cedomir Prlincevic, head of the Jewish community in pre-war Pristina (while there was a Jewish community in Kosovo), personally witnessed and experienced during the Kosovo war.

According to Columbia University report, Albanian Muslim “general” Rustem Mustafa, lovingly referred to as “Commander Remi” by his fellow-terrorists and war criminals, who was later appointed by Bernard Kouchner (the first UNMIK chief in Serbian province and the current Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in Sarkozy’s France) and American General Wesley Clark (former NATO Commander) to be the deputy commander of the Kosovo “Protection” Farce, uh, Force, was one of the main figures conducting the ethnic cleansing of his own people and producing the tide of Albanian refugees, staging a major propaganda coup for KLA-allied US-led NATO.

Albanian KLA Commander Remi Expelled 220,000 Albanians from Kosovo

Commander Remi began expelling Albanians from the Llap region once the international monitors pulled out. The sole intent of this strategy seems to have been to provoke a refugee crisis. Evidently, the KLA knew it could only rise to power through the maximum suffering of the very people it purported to be defending.

Chris Bird of the Guardian filed a story on Saturday March 20 which described how the KLA knocked on people’s doors in Srbica telling them they had to “leave immediately, at one in the morning” as the UCK spread land mines throughout the village. The villagers then had to walk miles through a wind swept snowy night.

The tide of KLA induced refugees grew until it reached 160,000 as described by Lirak Qelaj. Qelaj acted in part as an information officer for Commander Remi and one of his jobs was to film the plight of displaced Albanian civilians with a video camera. Qelaj “disclosed that it was KLA advice, rather than Serbian deportations, which led some of the hundreds of thousands of Albanians to leave Kosovo” as reported by Jonathan Steele of the Guardian on June 30th.

In one episode, around 160,000 displaced people were stranded near the village of Kolic on the east side of the Pristina-Podujevo road. Qelaj said the UCK “urged the people to go on to the main road and start walking to Pristina.”

Sometime in late April, in the north of the Llap region, the KLA urged another crowd hiding from the bombing and numbering almost 60,000 to leave for Macedonia and Albania according to Qelaj.

In Remi’s zone of operations alone, the KLA expelled 220,000 Albanians. This is keeping with the pattern Remi established prior to the bombing. Albanians were only worthy of decent treatment if they were actively supporting the KLA. Those who stood on the sidelines were to be used for propaganda purposes or worse.

Just Follow the Trial

For a bloodcurdling glimpse into the very start of the that war which, according to the Western mainstream media, was a result of Serbian nation suddenly going collectively and utterly mad, deciding overnight to just wipe out every living Albanian but only in their southern province (without touching a hair on the head of any of over 10,000 Albanians living in Serbian capital Belgrade, or a single of those 100,000-plus Albanians who fled to Serbia proper — into the hands of their “enemies” so to speak — after NATO aggression started), follow the Hague trials to a group of Albanian KLA/UCK commanders, most notably that of a former UNMIK-appointed Kosovo “Prime Minister,” war criminal Ramush Haradinaj.

Of course, the witnesses are getting fewer and further between, being that these particular Western allies have long arms and a nasty habit of ordering threats, intimidation and hit jobs on those who would dare to testify against them, but the few that have managed to survive their premier’s murderous raids have some enlightening stories to tell.

KLA Commander and Former West-Appointed Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj Fired the First Shot

Describing the incident on 24 March 1998 [exactly one year before NATO started its 78 days humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia], the witness claims he saw Ramush Haradinaj shoot and kill police officer Milorad Otovic. The fight between the KLA troops and the Serbian MUP that followed after the incident lasted the whole day.

Ramo Jollaj lived in the village of Glodjane near Decani from birth until April 1998. He has known the first accused Ramush Haradinaj since childhood, because Haradinaj grew up with his son. Testifying via video link from an undisclosed location, for security reasons, Jollaj described the incident of 24 March 1998: the first major clash between the KLA troops and the Serbian police in this area.

The witness was on his way back home from Djakovica. At the entrance to the village, he saw two police officers standing in front of the Haradinaj house, talking to Ramush’s father, Hilmi. A few seconds later, the witness recounted, Ramush Haradinaj came out of the house and fired a shot into one of the policemen, Miodrag Otovic, the commander of the Rznic police station, killing him. Jollaj claims he was some fifty meters away and was able to see everything clearly. After Otovic was killed, the police surrounded the Haradinaj property. The witness and the other villagers fled and took shelter at a nearby stream.

The witness left Glodjani two or three weeks after the clash because of “the situation in the village”, as he put it. Describing the situation, he said that Ramush Haradinaj, his father and others spread rumors about him, saying he was a Serb collaborator. He doesn’t see anything bad about the label, and didn’t at the time. “I did work for Serbs in a private capacity, and I didn’t mind if my employers were Serbs, Roma or Albanians,” the witness explained the reasons for his ostracism.

The witness’ written statement was admitted into evidence, and so was a sketch on which he marked the spot where Otovic was killed. [...] The indictment against Haradinaj, Balaj and Brahimaj described the incident of 24 March 1998 as a watershed in the KLA activities in the Dukagjin area. The prosecutor claims that the Albanian insurgents, with Haradinaj as their informal commander, launched “a systematic campaign to take over control” of the area between Glodjane and Decani, expelling and killing the non-Albanian civilians who lived there.

At the end of the hearing today, the prosecution called a new witness, also testifying via video link, but with full protective measures: pseudonym, image and voice distortion.

Funny that. I thought it was the Serbs who started killing the Albanians in their province, for no reason other than the Milosevic-induced nationalistic mass trance and that it was the Serbs who irrationally hated and despised every other nation and creed, and not the former Hitler/Mussolini/Mao allies, the poor Albanians.