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Kosovo: Serbs Lie, People Die |
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 by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, February 21, 2008 |
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[Editor's note: Earlier today, a mass anti-American and anti-Kosovar protest broke out in Belgrade. Protesters set fire to the US embassy.]
Now that Kosovo has declared independence and returned to the center of world news, it is instructive, if also astonishing, to see how the lies propagated by the
US embassy torched: Serbians protest Kosovo independence fascist Milosevic regime and its Serbian imperialist predecessors have been recycled and have even become widely accepted, anew, by global media. Serbs have yet again manifested their uncanny capacity to reinvent themselves as victims where they have acted as murderous criminals.
Let us examine the 10 most commonly-heard Serbian lies about Kosovo. The truth about each of these spurious claims can be easily confirmed.
- Lie: “Kosovar Albanians are all Muslims.” Truth: Kosovar Albanians, like Albanians in general, include a significant Catholic community. There are Catholic churches in almost every major Kosovo town. Historically, Catholics were in the forefront of Albanian resistance to Serbian aggression. Catholics were therefore among the most significant victims of Serbian terrorism in 1998-99. The single worst Serbian atrocity against Kosovar Albanians mainly took the lives of Catholics: this was the massacre at Korenica on April 27, 1999, in which 377 people were killed, including infants.
- Lie: “Kosovar Muslims are Islamists.” Truth: Kosovar Muslims despise radical Islam. Although Saudi Arabia maintains a relief office in Prishtina, and built a small number of mosques in Kosovo, their presence is resented. Kosovars disliked the Saudi Wahhabis, who defaced cemeteries on the argument that grave markers are idols, and who sought to replace historic Ottoman and modern Albanian mosques, which are also built in the Ottoman style, with new, Gulf-style mosques. More than a third of the mosques in the republic were completely destroyed by the Serbs.
- Lie: “The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was aligned with Al-Qaida.” Truth: Unlike the army of the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, the KLA did not permit foreign Muslims to join its ranks. The KLA was founded on a national struggle, rather than defense of a religious-based identity. The KLA
Scene from a Bosnian death camp included Catholic commanders and many Sufis (since, as Bernard Lewis has pointed out, Sufis are peaceful but not pacifist) as well as numerous non-religious people Also, radical Muslims outside the Albanian lands may have contributed money to the relief of Kosovo, but they played no role in the struggle of the KLA. This is one of the most bizarre Serb lies because no evidence of Arab or Islamist involvement with the KLA was sustained in mainstream media during the Kosovo intervention; the lie emerged, writ large, long after the war. - Lie: “Kosovar Muslims hate Orthodox Christians.” Truth: Albanians include some 20 percent believers in the Albanian Orthodox Church, which was founded as an autocephalous (religiously-autonomous) entity in the United States, against Greek Orthodox opposition. Its head was an outstanding Albanian patriot named Theofan Stilian Noli (1882-1965). Perhaps the greatest 20th century Albanian poet was Lasgush Poradeci (1899-1987), who came from an Orthodox family. Another renowned and popular poet was Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni – 1872-1924), born of a Slav Orthodox family but author of verse in Albanian, and the first modernist writer in the language.
- Lie: “Kosovo is the ‘Serb heartland.’ ” Truth: The Serb heartland in the Balkans was located in Raska, north of Kosovo. Serbia today speaks a variant of the South Slavic language originating in Vojvodina, which is relatively far to the north of Kosovo, and was part of Hungary until 1918.
- Lie: “Serbs built the Orthodox monasteries in Kosovo.” Truth: The origin of most of the Orthodox monasteries remains unclear; they may have been established by Albanian, Byzantine, Romanian (Vlach), Macedonian, or Bulgarian Orthodox Christians. A wall fresco in the famous monastery at Peja in Kosovo portrays the Orthodox St. Sava in the company of Albanian believers, identifiable by their distinctive white felt hats, or plisat. The likeliest theory is that the monasteries were built by Bulgarians, who ruled Kosovo in the 9th and 10th centuries. The first council of Christian bishops from the west Balkan region of Dioclea, which was centered in today’s Montenegrin capital of Podgorica, met in 1199 in Antivari (Tivat), and was totally Albanian in composition, without Slav participation.
- Lie: “Serbs fought the Ottoman Turks for centuries.” Truth: After the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, Turkish Sultan Bayazet I married a Serbian princess, Despina, and Serbia became a Turkish ally. Serbia did not rebel against the Ottomans until 1804.
- Lie: “Serbs saved Jews in World War II.” Truth: Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was officially designated “the first judenrein city in Europe” by the Serbian pro-Nazi regime of Gen. Milan Nedic. Statistics published by the
Unmarked graves from the massacres in Kosovo Federation of Jewish Communities in then-Yugoslavia, in 1989, showed the highest rate of liquidation of Jews in Banat, ruled by Serb collaborationists (93 percent killed) and Serbia proper (88 percent killed). The lowest rate of genocide of Jews was in Albanian-ruled Kosovo (38 percent killed). Albania itself, which drew many Jewish refugees from Central Europe, did not turn a single Jew over to the Nazis; it was the only Axis-occupied nation to come out of the war with more Jews than lived on its soil before the conflict began. The role of Albanians as Righteous Gentiles was recently recognized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Heroes’ and Martyrs’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. Most of the Albanians who saved Jews were Muslim. The figure for Jewish deaths in Kosovo during the Holocaust has recently been challenged. The disclosure of the original German roster of individuals deported to death camps from Kosovo, as well as other documents, preserved by Sinan Shabani, former director of the Albanian National Archives, and distributed by Claire Lavoine, a disinterested Frenchwoman of high ethics, is of exceptional importance. These sources show that no more than 40 Jews or offspring of mixed marriages were deported by the Nazis from Kosovo. That figure would render a Jewish liquidation rate of only eight percent. - Lie: “Albanians became a majority by immigrating to Kosovo after World War II, and now seek a union with other Albanian-speaking territories in a Greater Albania.” Truth: The first Yugoslav census, taken in 1921, showed an overwhelming Albanian majority in Kosovo, even though they were systematically undercounted. Kosovo and Albania proper have much less in common than foreigners think. Kosovars speak the northern variant of Albanian, known as Gheg. Albanians in south and central Albania speak another variant, Tosk. Although Kosovo is still poor, thanks to the obstructionist policies of the United Nations on privatization and other issues, it has a higher standard of living than Albania. Kosovo has removed the remnants of Communism from its political life, while there has yet to be a reform of the judiciary and other institutions in Albania, aside from the holding of free elections and a proliferation of mediocre, politically-corrupt newspapers. No serious political leader in either country calls for a Greater Albania.
- Lie: “Kosovo is a center of Albanian drug-smuggling.” Truth: Kosovo is the most heavily-policed region in Europe. Serbs and their supporters who make this charge cannot cite indictments, trials, or sentences, much less any other serious data about alleged drug-dealing in Kosovo, aside from an occasional petty seizure of marijuana. The republic’s foreign supervisors have no incentive to ignore such activities, if they existed.
Kosovar Albanians are not stupid or crazy. They owe their freedom to U.S.-led intervention and they will not forget it. They are entrepreneurial, moral, traditional people who are anxious to take their place as a responsible European nation. The U.S. has been correct in supporting the freedom of Kosovars, who will repay American help honorably and fully.
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Anonymous
Schwartz's article seems overwrought.
Former UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Ivor Roberts, has a piece in The Independent reviewing the situation and suggesting that the partition of Kosovo is the logical solution.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ivor-roberts-the-threa...
Also the picture with the title "Scene from a Kosovo death camp" looks suspiciously like a picture taken in Bosnia.
Adam H
A different story:
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=232#more-232
Daniel Koffler
Anonymous
Srebrenica is in Bosnia, not Kosova. Dumbass.
Anonymous
Good for the Serbians! Let the US and EU embassies burn.
It’s a disgrace that the US has made itself complicit in the destruction of the territorial integrity of Serbia and has been the major force behind the Albanian/Muslim separatist movement in Kosovo. Kosovo has been an integral part of Serbia for over 600 years, and is indeed the true heartland of the Serbian nation. Without US backing, the Albanian/Muslim separatists in the province of Kosovo would never have dared to attempt such a move. Hopefully Russia will come to Serbia’s aid and thus call the bluff of the US and EU states that have so precipitously and preumptuously recognized Kosovo as an independent state and vowed to support it. The Albanian/Muslims will soon see that such support is little more than hot air and that there is no support in either the US or the EU for military intervention to support this shameful destruction of Serbia.
It’s sad that President Bush would probably have a hard time even finding Serbia and it’s province of Kosovo on a map, much less understand anything about the history of either, yet he has nontheless naively committed the US to supporting the establishment of a Muslim terrorist state in the heart of Europe. Well done Dubya!
Such US support for destroying the territorial integrity of Serbia is even more baffling in light of the US Pledge of Allegiance’s own claim that the US is “one nation, indivisible”. Why is the US deemed “indivisible”, but Serbia - a nation whose history predates that of the US by several centuries - is apparently deemed divisible at will?
ChevyNazi
is backed by Hezbollah. If Schwartz does not know that he has his head up his ass!
Suzie
Schwartz knows exactly "what's going on", but it would be helpful to understand that the Serbs are Christian. Kosovo Albanians are 90%+ Muslim, and believe it or not, so is Schwartz! http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/articles/conversion_schwartz.htm
"Stephen Ahmad Suleyman Schwartz" is one of the Balkan Muslims favorite apologists, because his name -- minus Suleyman Ahmad part --fools many people.
Иван
Stephen Schwartz is the Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington
Иван
Scene from a Bosnian death camp
Иван
that pictures has been proved as a lie. Look better, they are standing behind the defence... : )
Anonymous
"KLA is backed by Hezbollah. If Schwartz does not know that he has his head up his ass!"
Really?
"Iran, Serbia sign security agreement"
Iran, Serbia sign security agreement
Tehran -- Monday - Iranian First Vice President Parviz Davoudi on Sunday
authorized temporary signing of an agreement on security cooperation between
the governments of Iran and Serbia-Montenegro, according to Iranian news
agency.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), in response to the
proposal of the Ministry of Interior, the secretariat of the government's
council for dissemination of information and the cabinet authorized the
Ministry of Information to proceed and temporarily ink such an agreement.
The move is in accordance with article 2 of Iran's by-law on drawing up and
signing international contracts approved in 1992, reports IRNA.
and Russia, the mothership is arming Iran with nuke materials. Any more lies to cover up for the Serb thugs?
Anonymous
Let's analyze things, Mr. Schwartz. While all Albanians are not Muslims, most are. While not all Kosovar Muslims are Islamists, a great many are. After all, Islamic terrrorists are those who burnt down thousands of Christian churches in Kosovo. Not all Kosovo Muslims hate Serb Orthodox Christians, but a great many do. It takes hate to burn down even just a single church. Kosovo is the Serb heartland for, ofcourse, the Kosovo Serbs. You expect us to believe that even if Bulgarians, Romanians, Albanians, etc that were Christians that the Serbs also did not give massive physical help to build the Kosovo monasteries? I don't believe you. The KLA did receive, at least, considerable material support from al Quaida. Christian Serbs and Ottoman Muslims did fight each other, in religious conflicts, for centuries. And Serbia rebelled against the Ottomans in 1804-which was over 2 centuries ago. There were Serbs who save the Jews in WWII and there were Serbs, under the Nazis, who did not save the Jews in WWII. Many Serbs did fight the Nazis. Many Serbs collaberated with the Nazis.More/more Albanians did move to Kosovo after WW2.
Anonymous
Whatever the true reason or reasons for the ethnic Albanians being the majority in Kosovo; the fact remains they are right now. With the very, very old Kosovo monasteries, obviously such monasteries would, over many years, need repair work. Sometimes, entire large sections would have to be replaced(as a new roof). Serbs and any other ethnic Christian peoples would help over the centuries to preserve the monasteries and churches.If the Serbs were the biggest group of ethnic Christians in Kosovo, a few centuries ago, then naturally the Serbs would have done the greatest amount of upkeep repair work on these monasteries and churches. In regards to Kosovo being a center of Albanian drug trade, any where poor people are there is drug trading which is done by the most by the ethnic majority of the poor people.
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Ofcourse, Albanians in Kosovo want some type of union with Albanians of surrounding nations.Any group of ethnic peoples would like some type of union with the same type of ethnic peoples in surrounding countries. Albanians who speak a certain dialect would like some type of union with Albanians who speak that same dialect. Ethnic groups of people care about each other and will form various organizations that try to unite them in one way or another. Adolph Hitler became very powerful by uniting, under Nazism, the vast majority of Germans living in Europe. The Germans were many millions in number. Lenin and later Stalin did the same type of mass uniting, under Communism, of the many millions of Russians. Of course, the result was a huge war. People fear when great numbers of an ethnic group of people begin to develop some type of union.
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Everything written by this "Schwartz" hatemonger is a lie. It's disgusting that he'd apologize for terrorists who OPENLY claim they want an ethnically pure "Kosova" (a name which has no meaning in Albanian) and have driven out hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Roma, Jews, Gorani and other nationalities from the region since the NATO bombing. I'm sure "Schwartz" would claim the pogroms of March 17, 2004 (which even the notorious Serb hater Joseph Biden said occurred) were also a "lie".
And we've already seen the "honor" of the "Kosovar Albanians" in repaying the Americans, with their attack on Fort Dix.
I don't know how you can say with a straight face that the Kosovo isn't a haven for the drug trade and that the KLA aren't narco-terrorists. The American state department said as much in 1998.
Abu Sayyaf, KLA commander affiliated with al-Qaeda. Bin Laden visited Albania in 1996 and 1997 for the sole purpose of organizing terror camps for the KLA. The Times of London reported that Mujahadeen were fighting for the KLA (11/26/1998). The KLA cause was officially called a "jihad" by an Islamist conference in Pakistan in 1998. In late 1997, Iran was shipping large shipments of arms to the KLA. This is documented by western sources. Schwartz is a liar and a despicable apologist for terrorists, pimps, and drug traffickers.
I didn't even mention Kosovo Albanian support for fascism while the Serbs heroically fought alone in the Balkans agains the most demonic and brutal fascists.
Chetniks saved the lives of American pilots, another fact Albanian apologists like to ignore.
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Schwartz claims that the Serbs only revolted against the ruthless Ottoman butchers in 1804 after 1389, which is sheer nonsense that would make Goebbels proud. The Serbs fought against the Turks in Gracanica in 1402, Despotovac in 1406, Kosmoidon in 1408, Carmorlu in 1410, Varna in 1443, Kosovo again in 1448, Belgrade in 1456, Serbia and Bosnia in 1459. The Hungarian-backed Serbian principality that existed from 1471 until 1540 spent its entire existence fighting against the Ottoman butchers. Serbia rebelled against and fought the Turks during the Thirteen Years war from 1593-1606. They fought against the Turks during the Kocina Krajina Serb rebellion of 1788. And of course, they were the first Christian population under the Turkish sadists' yoke to liberate themselves of Ottoman terror beginning in 1804, with other Christian populations following their lead thereafter.
Schwartz is a fraud and liar. Everything he says is a lie.
Anonymous
Then there's the matter of Schwartz rewriting history to make the Albanian Fascists into "defenders of the Jews", while the only people in the Balkans who dared stand up to Hitler and Mussolini's hordes are being demonized and slandered. The Mussolini inspired Greater Albanian movement implemented widespread terror and genocide against Kosovo Serbs, led most prominently by the Albanian Waffen SS Skanderbeg Division and the Albanian nationalist Balli Kombetar. The openly stated goal of these groups, along with fascists like Bedri Pejani, Feret-bay Draga and Mustafa Kruja, was the complete extermination of all Serbs in Kosovo, which I'm sure Schwartz here agrees with. The most enthusiastic collaborators of the Fascists were Kosovo Albanians, rather than Albanians from Albania. The Kosovo Albanians enthusiastically joined the Italian-Albanian invasion of Kosovo-Metohija as it occurred. Italian Fascists had to act as restraining forces against Albanian fascist attacks on Serbs and other "undesirables". They reported their disgust at the actions of the Albanians against the Serbs. Germans in the area reported that the Albanians were hellbent on expelling or killing as many Serbs as possible.
Of all the occupied nations only the Serbs, Greeks, and Poles refused to form volunteer units for the Nazis. As to the matter of killing Jews. 550 Jews lived in Kosovo at the time of the fascist takeover, 210 of them were killed, almost all by Albanians. According to Cedomir Prlincevic, head of the Jewish community in Prishtina and executive of the provincial archives, Jews who were not murdered outright by the Kosovo Albanians were shipped to death camps in Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen, but one train was intercepted by advancing Russian soldiers. Had it not been for this interception, it is likely the entire Jewish population of Kosovo would have been annihilated by the Albanian fascists you love so much. The Kosovo Albanian fascists continued fighting the Yugoslav state long after the Nazis surrendered. They finally stopped their fighting in 1951.
The reason why Belgrade was rid of its Jews has nothing to do with Serb "collaboration", but rather with Serb resistance to the Nazi hordes. The Germans were absolutely brutal in the reprisals to Serb resistance and quickly rounded up Belgrade's Jews, placing most of them in a camp near Belgrade and exterminating them. Raul Hilberg, the world's foremost Holocaust historian, rejects Schwartz's Nazi lies.
"”The Serbs abhorred the foreign
yoke under practically all forms and for that treason occupied Serbia
was the theatre of an uninterrupted partisan war. As in Russia, the
German army was punishing the manifestations of rebellion by executing
the hostages , above all the Jewish hostages”.
In December… the military units undertook the transfer of the
families of the executed hostages to Semlin where the
commander of the Security police and of the SD , Schafer ,
was awaiting his victims…In the beginning of March 1942., a
special vehicle arrived from Berlin, a gas van. Every day
except Sundays and holidays the women and children were put
into the van…
The operation ended on 10. May. Satisfied, Dr Shafer
reported that the problem of Jews in Serbia did not exist any
more.”
Anonymous
Schwartz loves fascism so much, he gives high marks to fascist Albania for supposedly not trying to kill off Albania's 200 Jews. This again, is a lie. Documents from US intelligence, the OSS, stated that Xhafer Deva (of Albania proper) implemented anti-semitic measures and had been "responsible for the deportation of Jews, Communists and Partisans" to extermination camps as well as for punitive raids by the Skanderbeg Division. The reason why few Jews were killed was because they were spread out across a mountainous rural area, not because of Albania's fascist government's lack of trying. There's also the inconvenient matter of the fact that Kosovo Albanians, responsible for the extermination of Kosovo Jews (as well as the destruction of synagogues and the takeover of Jewish businesses), were leaders in Albania proper.
Schwartz's fascist apologia also ignores the fact that Albanians were involved in the Handzar Division in Bosnia, which participated heavily in the Holocaust.
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