"Kosovo Liberation Army" Topic

"The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed forces from repeating the ethnic cleansing that had so deeply damaged the former Yugoslavia. Serbia trained its military on Kosovo because of an ongoing armed struggle by ethnic Albanians to wrest independence from Serbia. Warfare in the Balkans seemed to threaten the stability of Europe, as well as the peace and security of Kosovars, and yet armed resistance seemed to offer the only possibility of future stability. Leading the struggle against Serbia was the Kosovo Liberation Army, also known as the KLA.

Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency provides a historical background for the KLA and describes its activities up to and including the NATO intervention. Henry H. Perritt Jr. offers firsthand insight into the motives and organization of a popular insurgency, detailing the strategies of recruitment, training, and financing that made the KLA one of the most successful insurgencies of the post-Cold War era. This volume also tells the personal stories of young people who took up guns in response to repeated humiliation by "foreign occupiers," as they perceived the Serb police and intelligence personnel. Perritt illuminates the factors that led to the KLA's success, including its convergence with political developments in eastern Europe, its campaign for popular support both at home and abroad, and its participation in international negotiations and a peace settlement that helped pave the long road from war to peace…"

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Does the book go into the widespread organ-legging and other criminal activities engaged in by the KLA leadership? For which at least one of them was indicted by the ICC.

Does it go into the tactics employed by the KLA in their 'ethnic cleansing?' For example raping Serbian schoolgirls to 'encourage' their families to leave Kosovo.

Or does it touch on the fact that had Milosevic been a bit more patient that the US State Department would have added the KLA to its list of terrorist organizations?

Or that a major percentage of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were refugees from Hroxha's Albanian regime? Excellent reason to refuse asylum.

Does it include the tidbit that the brave KLA commanders would sit in cafes in Albania and call in NATO airstrikes in Kosovo on empty hillsides?

Wonder if that 'road to peace; includes the negotiations in Macedonia to put the lid on KLA operations there – give them Kosovo on one hand and tell them they can't have Macedonia on the other. Another argument for turning back 'refugees' at the border.

Kosovo was a prime example of why media inflamed public opinion should not drive foreign policy.

"Or that a major percentage of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo were refugees from Hroxha's Albanian regime? Excellent reason to refuse asylum."

Your grasp of the issues involved is as weak as your spelling of the names of historical figures of the region.

Oops, that is what one gets when doesn't double check a name one hasn't used for a decade or so.

Other than that, absent cited rebuttals, I'll rest on my points.

goragradi, having some Serbish mates who filled me in with the 'real dictate' of what really was happening, I'm in agreement, Kosovo is and will be until its returned occupied lands (and don't take the percentage numbers look into the history of the area.
Still unresolved and held hostage by NATO.
I find later evaluations of events can show a totally different understanding of why people did what they did( for good or bad)
My own opinion of course Cheers and thanks for the info.

Goragrad mixes half-truths, preposterous claims, Serb propaganda, and then expects cited rebuttals?

Right.

Well, I did quote NPR there on a couple of those items…

And PBS (Newshour)…