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Wie dacht dat het koek en ei was in het oh zo democratische (not!) Kosovo, heeft het mooi mis. ANA (Albanian National Army) bewees maar weer eens dat ze zo erg streven naar een onafhankelijkheid met Servie en dat ze niks van Serviers moesten hebben dat ze een belangrijke verbinding tussen Servie en Kosovo dan maar kapotbombardeerden. Volgens de auteur van het volgende artikel is de internationale gemeenschap genoodzaakt ANA als een terroristengroep te bestempelen.
Het zou eens tijd worden. ------------ Albanian National Army Outlawed Following a bridge explosion in northern Kosovo, the international community is forced to label the AKSh a terrorist group. PRISTINA, Kosovo--Doubt about the existence and the aims of the Albanian National Army (AKSh) were eliminated last week after a railway bridge in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo was blown up on 12 April. The operation, which involved two members of the AKSh and over 60 kilograms of explosives, destroyed the railway bridge linking Kosovo and Serbia. The action prompted the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to change its position on the AKSh--from flatly denying the existence of any illegal armed organization in Kosovo to promulgating an administrative order against the AKSh, which has been defined as a terrorist organization. Both UNMIK chief Michael Steiner and Fabio Mini, the commander of the NATO-led Kosovo Stabilization Forces (KFOR), condemned the act as a terrorist attack and called on Kosovars to do the same. The response to the call has been quite muted, with Kosovar institutions condemning the explosion as a criminal act but avoiding any reference to terrorism. It was surprising that the AKSh attacked in Kosovo, having declared itself against operating inside the territory of Kosovo two months ago, where the group said friendly international forces were based. Since then, however, the AKSh has clarified its position, stating on its website that the group will continue the struggle in all “Albanian territories” colonized by Serbs, Montenegrins, and Macedonians, whereas it “will not be active in the territories where KFOR is deployed.” Reactions from ethnic Albanians have been mixed. Politicians and analysts have stressed the damage the attack has done to Kosovo. However, there is also a feeling that the attack, in a Serb-dominated area, is the outcome of ineffective or even nonexistent UNMIK authority in the north. When asked his opinion on the attack, a 34-year-old taxi driver in Pristina said, “Violence is not good, but we also cannot let the Serbs do whatever they want up there,” referring to the lack of control UNMIK and KFOR have over northern Kosovo, where Serbs are a majority. Indeed, proclaiming the AKSh a terrorist organization seems to reflect mainly political rather than security concerns. The situation in northern Kosovo leaves no room for UNMIK inactivity, with Serb extremist leaders such as Milan Ivanovic announcing the creation of parallel military structures for the self-defense of Serbs. Not reacting quickly may mean allowing extreme elements of both communities to attack each other, resulting in UNMIK losing its already flimsy grip in northern Kosovo. The consequences of the attack are already being widely felt--most notably by the Kosovo Protection Corps (TMK), one of whose members was an AKSh activist who took part in the bridge attack. When NATO arrived in Kosovo in June 1999, after the air campaign, it reached a disarmament agreement with the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), which included the transformation of part of the UCK into the TMK. The TMK has since been trained and equipped for emergency response in natural disasters, and numbers over 5,000 members at the moment. The less glorious side of the TMK coin is that, throughout the postwar years, its members have been associated with war crimes, extremism, destabilization of neighboring countries, and organized crime--factors that have prompted an international debate about its future. The fact that Hamez Behrami, an active TMK officer, was killed as an AKSh activist in the bridge attack has put corps leader Agim Ceku in a difficult position. Ceku faces intense international pressure to deal with the retrograde elements of the corps or face externally imposed measures. As far as the AKSh is concerned, the key question is its future activities now that it has been officially outlawed. In an interview with Reuters, Alban Vjosa, the political secretary of the Albanian National Unity Party (FBKSh), which acts as the political wing of the AKSh, stressed that the AKSh would continue to be active in northern Kosovo as “UNMIK has demonstrated on numerous occasions that it is a friend of Belgrade and the enemy of Albanians.” On the other hand, the AKSh met with modest response to recruitment and enjoys only marginal support in Kosovo, in comparison with southern Serbia and Macedonia. Ethnic Albanian political leaders believe that violence will only damage the position of Kosovo and are committed to cooperating with UNMIK there. Although it enjoys only negligible support, the AKSh has demonstrated that it is a security risk. UNMIK took initial action against the organization by arresting four AKSh activists one week after the blast. In other news, a key witness against several former UCK members on trial in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague was killed near Pec on 14 April in a drive-by shooting. According to local media, the protected witness was 22-year-old Ilir Selimaj. Selimaj was to testify for the prosecution in the trial of five UCK members and Kosovo politician Ramush Haradinaj for the kidnapping and murder of four ethnic Albanians. --by Jehona Gjurgjeala Bron En ik word helemaal ziek overigens als ik artikelen lees van voordat milosevic aan de macht kwam hoe serviers in kosovo werden geterroriseerd. Daar hoorde je de int. gemeenschap nooit over.... Ik zou bijna hopen dat die gek Milosevic vrij komt door gebrek aan bewijs wb. Kosovo.
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Ik heb er verder niets over gehoord. Dus of het waar is? Wat wel waar is, is overigens dat de VS wapens heeft geleverd aan Albanese rebellen in Macedonia. ![]()
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Ik weet niet goed waarom je kosovo er in jouw antwoord erbij haalt. Vermoed je dat dit (al qaida strijders actief) ook het geval was in Kosovo?
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