Kosovo

Working at the Top
by Suleyman Stephen Schwartz

“The Muslims were to be subjected to a final solution: More than fifty percent of them were to be killed, a smaller part was to be converted to Orthodoxy, while an even smaller part — people with money—were to be allowed to buy their lives and leave, probably through Serbia, for Turkey,” said Vladimir Srebrov, a former Serbian leader familiar with the plan. “The aim was to cleanse Bosnia-Herzegovina completely of the Muslim nation.” [ABC News]

Under intense international pressure and the threat of NATO airstrikes, on October 27, 1998, after a notorious series of long delays and broken promises, Serbian troops initiated their painfully slow exodus from Kosova. Under Slobodan Milosevic, characterized by some as “the Hitler of the 90s”, the Serb killing machine made at least a show of withdrawal from the land it had so ruthlessly wrested from Kosovar Albanians in eight months of unforgettably gruesome civilian attacks.

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