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About War and Peace

By Vladimir Sukalovic - posted Saturday, 15 May 1999


I am sure that the majority of the Albanians are against the war, against the idea of "greater" Albania, and against the terrorism. But, in every population you have warmongers, who are driven by ideals, money or power, and they can pull the whole nation into war. We experienced the same thing between 1991 - 1994. Most of us want peace to return. We are happy to have peaceful Albanians living with us.

Our government says it, and my friends and I believe that their safe return is the only right way. Have you noticed that there have been no demonstrations against Albanians in Yugoslavia?. Even Vojvoda Seselj, the ultra right Radical Party President never says anything against Albanians in general. We don't hate them, we are not against them, and most of all, we don't do ethnic cleansing, mass raping and concentration camps.

But, on the other hand, those Albanians who are now in the KLA must be captured, tried and sentenced. When peace comes, I am sure that we (both Serbs and Albanians) will be able to live together, but only if the KLA is exterminated, their political leaders who dreamed about "greater Albania" tried and sentenced, and if US and NATO stop helping those 5% of the people who lead the rest of them.

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Mr Milosevic is our President, but I never liked him. We have had an election, but no real democracy. The election was only held to justify the situation which already existed. I protested against Milosevic in 1990, 1992, and 1996-97. During the protests in 1992 I actively helped organize demonstrations, and again in 1996-97 I was in the leadership of the demonstrations.

I never liked him, never. He lost two wars, and left some 300.000 Serbs to be killed, raped or tortured under Croats and Moslems. He is slow to act, reluctant to kill and undetermined to finish what he started. Or should I say he was? Because now, for the first time in his presidency, he decided to consult, ask advice and make plans with other politicians. The US and NATO have only made things worse as he has gained the support of the whole country, and even those like me are quiet now because we are all united against the US and NATO.

But in a way I can’t blame America or France or Germany. I don’t believe in collective guilt and over the internet I see and talk every day to people from those countries who are against the bombing, and think their government or their president is wrong . No, I direct my blame to those who are in control of this aggression – the US president, his cabinet, and their puppets in the NATO countries.

It is clear that NATO is ruled by the US. Most of the peace talks we witness are between some country and the US. Occasionally France or Germany is invited to talk about a solution of the crisis, but England is omitted completely. One must ask why this is so?

I will try to produce an answer. First, US keeps telling us, that they are not at war with the Serbian people. They are our friends. Even Albright gave a speech in Serbian language, but deeds speak more than 100 words. If US wanted to help us, they had a chance in 1992, when Milan Panic was running for President of the state. And in 1996-97 US had a clear chance not only to help us, but to end the rule of president Milosevic.

They failed both times.

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In the military operations in Croatia, US bombed our people, and during the ethnic cleansing in Republic of Kinskakrajna, US was silent as some 300.000 people were driven out of their homes by the Croats. Same thing happened in Bosnia. Some US newspapers called our president The Butcher from Belgrade, and for much of the time CNN was broadcasting false video clips, rumors and Hollywood taped material.

Worst of all, the US is helping terrorists, and does it in public. I have a picture, released through AP, showing US soldiers in their uniforms in New York, wearing UCK (Albanian for KLA) patches, under the US flag. Other evidence can be found in The New Rome and the New Religious Wars on the website of International Strategic Studies Association. The US cannot claim to have good intentions when it is involved in terrorism.

The US also acts as an Air Force to the KLA. I have to tell you that the OSCE observation mission with your Wallace in command, was only a cover up for US special forces, who spied, located and marked targets in Kosovo, and the rest of the country.

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Vladimir Sukalovic lives in Belgrade and works as a Research Assistant while completing a PhD project on "Computer Aided Modelling of Dopamine Receptor Ligands". He was born in 1971.

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