Albanian fascists on the rampage — again

The ethnically charged demonstrations, killings and burnings 
of Serbian homes and churches by Albanian extremists in the 
Serbian province of Kosovo have led to over 30 deaths and many 
more injured. The dead and injured include some UN (KFOR) 
troops.

The renewed violence is a further step in the attempt of the 
Albanian terrorists(KLA) to achieve their objective of forcing 
the separation of Kosovo from Serbia and creating an "ethnically 
pure" greater Albania.

Kosovo's Albanian leaders do not accept UN Security Council 
Resolution 1244 which declared Kosovo to be an inalienable part 
of Serbia.

Following the 1999 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, Kosovo was 
de facto taken out of Serbian territory and power. Control of the 
province passed to Albanian extremists. At least 200,000 Serbs, 
as well as Gypsies, Jews and representatives of other ethnic 
groups, have been expelled from Kosovo over the past few years.

A Greater Albania, in addition to Kosovo, would include areas of 
Macedonia, Montenegro and parts of Northern Greece populated by 
Albanians.

These mad plans would lead to a serious revision of national 
borders and the explosion of the situation in the Balkans, which 
are called the "powder keg of Europe."

Return Serbian troops to Kosovo

Last week the Russian parliament unanimously passed a resolution 
saying that Serbian-Montenegrin military forces should be allowed 
to help defend the Kosovo Serbs.

The resolution condemned the failure of international 
organisations [the UN and NATO] to stem the ethnic violence.

The Russian Duma, said a new UN resolution on Kosovo should be 
passed to reaffirm the Serbian Government's sovereignty over 
Kosovo and that "the military units of Serbia-Montenegro should 
take part in defence of the Serb population of the region, of 
Orthodox churches and guarding borders."

Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica stated that "events in 
the northern part of Kosovo-Metohija reveal the true nature of 
Albanian separatism, its violent and terrorist character". The 
terrorist actions of the Albanians are aimed at forcing out the 
remaining Serbs and the UN so that the core business of the KLA -
- drugs, arms and human trafficking — can proceed without 
disturbance.