How the West has used ethnic diversity to control the Balkans

by Brian Denny

Serb civilians who ran the Grand Hotel restaurant in Kosovo's provincial 
capital Pristina were "ethnically cleansed" by a group of joint Albanian-US 
citizens recently.

Under the protection of NATO troops, the group, led by New York restaurant 
manager Arber Muriqi, ignored Serb protests and simply took over.

"I saw the opportunity and grabbed it", Mr Muriqi is reported to have said.

US soldiers made clear that they would not intervene and told the Serbs to 
complain to the military occupying force about the Albanian takeover.

The Grand Hotel has been made a base for KFOR troops, Western journalists 
and other camp followers who provide services for the occupation force in 
Kosovo.

Serbs have also been driven out of towns and villages, such as Novake, 
Bellopoje and Grace by the Kosovo Liberation Army and under the gaze of 
German troops in their sector in the south.

Of course, Western-backed mass expulsions are not new.

Over 600,000 Serbs were ethnically cleansed from Krajina in Croatia in the 
early 1990s with the help of US personnel, while the Dayton Accords imposed 
ethnically pure zones to divide and rule Bosnia.

Those Serbs who did not leave Krajina were massacred by the Croatian army, 
while Western advisers stood by and did nothing.

The expulsion of Serbs has been deliberately played down by the press and 
Western governments have conspicuously lost their missionary zeal to carry 
out a moral (military) crusade to halt them.

It is now clear that the Western-backed KLA wants an ethnically pure Kosovo 
as part of a greater Albania and also has designs on parts of neighbouring 
countries such as Macedonia.

Albania expects its place in the sun for faithfully carrying out NATO 
diktats during its aggression against Yugoslavia.

Hungary, a new NATO member, is also expecting its just desserts for 
supporting the aggression, by winning control of the strategically 
important northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.

Budapest is encouraging the large ethnic Hungarian population to demand 
independence as a precursor to annexation.

Turning ethnic diversity into ethnic division has been an old trick of 
imperialism for hundreds of years, arming one ethnic or religious group 
against another, encouraging conflict and then marching in to act as 
colonial dictators in the name of humanity.

Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler understood this very well when developing a 
strategy to rule Europe.

"In dealing with the foreign peoples in the East, we must foster as many 
single national groups as possible; Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, white 
Russians, Kashchuben and as many other small nationalities as can be 
found", he wrote, in his thesis Fertile ground for developing Euro-war 
policy.

The reality is that parts of the Balkans which have been conquered and 
occupied by NATO over the last decade have become ethnically pure enclaves 
dominated by Western economic structures.

The next phase in the annexation of Kosovo is already being discussed by 
European Union Foreign Ministers, after British Foreign Secretary Robin 
Cook said that the Yugoslav currency, the dinar, is to be replaced by the 
German mark as a precursor to being incorporated into Euroland.

The fact that what is left of Yugoslavia remains one of the most ethnically 
diverse areas in the region despite the intense media manipulation claiming 
the opposite.

It is increasingly clear that the media's portrayal of Belgrade as 
"fascist" and NATO countries as promoting "democracy" is also untrue.

In fact the opposite is the case.

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Morning Star