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Friday, 01.03.2019.

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"Western media's decisive role in decision to attack Serbia"

Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Western propaganda was crucial in <a href="https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2017&mm=03&dd=24&nav_id=100847" class="text-link" target= "_blank">(NATO) deciding to bomb FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in 1999.</a>

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Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

view from uk, in fact, there were 2 separate massacres at markale. and Radovan Karadzic was found guilty using the same argument you are making for the markale massacre(s). the ICTY Trial Chamber concluded that both attacks were committed by Serb forces around Sarajevo.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania, to continue. As I said in previous post the Serbs have been blamed for everything. Many now in jails, rightly so. But can you explain how nobody held responsible for cleansing 300k Serbs from Croaria? Did you miss that? Why do no Albos condemn the market place massacre which the Bosnians conducted to blame Serbs (proved). Why no Albos condemn the murder of up to 4000 Serb men, women and children around Srebrenica by Oric? Mladic as an act of revenged did what he did and rightly jailed.
I would take you seriously and like to debate, but not one Albanian has condemned crimes against Serbs. You just ignore it. Why is that? Are you quietly pleased that Serbs cleansed out of Croatia (which the Croat state celebrates..!? Amazing, eh?)

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania, stop trying to rewrite history. War in Slovenia?? As far as I recall a number of JNA bases were attacked/threatened by Slovenian extremists. I recall young soldiers being dragged out of a tank by Slovenians.
How many were killed in this "war" in Slovenia? How many battles took place? Can you name any place where battles were in Slovenia? I've seen more violence in a British city centre on a friday night after a lot of drinking. So please no false stories.
Serbia did not send any troops to Bosnia, it was a 3 sided conflict between the people who lived there. If Serbia is guilty of anything in Bosnia then Croatia is just as guilty. Remember Milosevic was found not guilty in the Hague (as much as you want him to be guilty).
And if I was a Serb in Croatia in the '90s I would have been worried. Thats when you consider what Croats did to Serbs in the 1940s. And the plan went well for Croats by cleansing up to 300k Serbs for ever. Can you condemn the crimes against Serbs in the 1940s and '95 in Croatia? Not one Albanian condemns these acts, why is that?

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

view from uk, of course there was a war in Slovenia, it's called the ten-day war or the Slovenian independence war. it's hard to imagine that you are not aware of this known historical event that started the yugoslav wars. which really only goes to show how deluded many serbs have become on the actual events of the conflicts and now thinking themselves as the victims in a war they started. the Slovenia invasion is a very clear pattern of what serbian state did against it's neighbors during the 90's. it's amazing to think that there are still serbs attempting to hide this history and deny it at every corner.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania...such a simplistic view. Firstly there was no war in Slovenia, so please dont write trash. Secondly, Serbia never invaded Bosnia. That was a 3 sided civil war. Serbs & Croats didnt want to live in a muslim/islamic dominated nation. Remember that Milosevic was not guilty of anything (according to The Hague, who were desperate to find him guilty). In Croatia I think it was well known what Croats planned for Serbs. Considering what happened in WW2, would you not worry? And guess what up to 300k Serbs cleansed for ever. And what did the west do about this dreadful act..? Yep, nothing. As for Kosovo its known that the Albos had been planning for decades to rip Kosovo from Serbia (a sovereign country with clear & accepted borders). Lobbying and a lot of cash went to US politicians (such as Bob Dole) and set ups like Racak convinced the west to illegaly attack Serbia (no UN resolutions).
Say what you like but Serbia has been blamed for everything, while other crimes by Croats, Bosnians and Albos ignored. Its shameful and a disgrace.

sj

pre 5 godina

(Dardania'Alb, 4 March 2019 19:03)

Your really terrible at this. Just like your pathetic effort to prove Albos were in the Balkans since the dawn of time, your comments here are even worse. What a stupid concoction of comments. Adding 2 plus 2 and getting 92. Why don’t your Albos from Montenegro, Kosovo or Greece join with Albania?
Serbia never invaded Slovenia and Kosovo is part of Serbia bum dumb. Go back and try and prove Albos came from Atlantis.

sj

pre 5 godina

(Glow, 4 March 2019 19:08)
Sweetie first I graduated from excellent universities not from any clown colleges in Pristina and Tirana.
I have forgotten more about what occurred in the former Yugoslvaia in the 1990s than you will ever know on the subject.
No, the entire world is not against Serbia and no one ever said that. Its just the western countries, led by the US, which by the way, is now involved in another spectacularly failure called Venezuela LOL. The US wanted the breakup of Yugoslavia but stepped on a pebble called Serbs and they are now stuck. They have done everything to get the Serbs to like them even make Albos look like low life over the taxes; sent an Ambassador who speaks Serbian, but no luck. But they sent you someone to Pristina who barely can speak English and you guys grovel.
No sweetie the Hague is not a Court but a Tribunal – read up on the difference. And no, the EU or your beloved US have no interest in the Hague.
The Serbs have repeated ad nauseum to the EU they will not recognise Kosovo, they will not join in sanctions against Russia and no more Hague; and if they don’t like that Brussels should stop the talks with Belgrade to join the EU. Chapter after chapter continues. I am against Serbia joining any way and any help from you would be most appreciated.
The only reason no more in the EU for now, the EU economies have been faltering since 2008 and money is a problem to meet financial obligations to new members. That’s all.

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

VIEW FROM UK, the west this, the west that .... no one forced serbia to illegally consolidate political power and yugoslav military assets at the expense of the other provinces. no one forced serbia to then use those military assets to invade Slovenia Croatia, Bosnia and Kosova. your own politicians and military commanders in serbia were literally on serbian state television making open threats of violence, invasions and genocide towards the other provinces that were talking about independence. you need to step back a bit and ask yourself, what does that say about serbia if even your own Slavic kin did not want any kind of mutual union with serbia.

Glow

pre 5 godina

(sj, 4 March 2019 10:43

Here we have another one of those that has graduated from the Brainwash Academy of Serbia! Addressing your kind is a complete waste of time! Poor Serbia... the entire world is against them! Give me a freaking break and if you have any human decency don't speak of the war victims you know NOTHING about! It is pathetic and disgusting! Hauge criminal court will be in high gear getting a load of serbian criminals as this dialogue agreement is reached! Mark my words that Serbia is going to be pressured by EU and USA to turn in all their criminals!
The USA has already gave EU a condition that they can't have Serbia join the EU without having them deal with International Justice first! Walls are closing in and your made-up reality is going to be CRUSHED!

sj

pre 5 godina

(Glow, 2 March 2019 23:38)
The first casualty of war is the truth and if you can make your enemy look really bad then your well on the way to getting outside sympathy.
Racak did happened but it was your Albos with William Walker CIA operative that killed those people to make the Serbs look bad – it’s what started the bombing. The Sarajevo market massacre is well documented in the UN. UN investigators concluded that the mortar shells could not have come from Serb positions but from inside Sarajevo, but that report was conveniently buried by the US to levy the harshest sanction in world history on Serbia; another set up.
Now my favourite myth is Srebrenica. The Serbs have suggested many times to hold an independent investigation with prominent experts from outside BiH but alas the Bosniaks refuse. Why? Because the genocide myth is pure BS since all old men, boys women and small children were bused out of Srebrenica.
Croats are whingers hoping their lack of military prowess will be covered by Vukovar. Ask the Bosniaks what their allies the Croats did to them during the 1990s.
Germany ran concentration camps gassing anyone who was against Hitler’s authority, Roma, Communists, Jews and homosexuals. They have plenty to admit to. Serbs did nothing of the kind.
Sweetie your lot are not angels so when are they going to take responsibility?

Darkly Machiever

pre 5 godina

Slow news day....yawning!
(Glow, 1 March 2019 18:56
__________________________________________________________________________

Go and get a job then.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Bob, well highlighted. The only problem is that your post only scratches the surface.
I did read about 4 or 5 years ago that since the turn of the century there had been around 2000 Serbs that had been found murdered or just missing. And the amazing thing (or maybe not so amazing) is that there had been not one arrest in connection to those murdered or missing.
These sorts of things had been going on since the 1970s with provocations, burning of property, harrassment, bullying, etc.
But of course the world ignores this, just as they ignored the cleansing of Serbs from Croatia in '95.
Its a sad world we live in where propaganda and percetion rules. Where "marketing companies" such as Ruder & Finn, Cambridge Analytica, etc distort the truth. And the saddest thing is that western governments use these corrupt companies to start illegal wats in places like Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan. They now doing it to Venezuela.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

I did send another post but either got lost or not published.
Zakharova is correct about western media. I recall that in '95 there was nothing in the British media about Croatia cleansing up to 300K Serbs. Vast majority of Brits have no idea this even happened. Why is that? Yet the bread queue massacre was on every media outlet. But when it was proved it was the Bosnian muslims who planted the bombs to kill their own it was not reported.
There are many examples where things were blamed on Serbs and well publicised but never the other way. Even Milosevic's exoneration by the Hague is little known, so people here still think he was found guilty.
The media here is also anti Putin. For example they often talk of Putins "anti gay laws". But its not illegal to be gay in Russia. But in over 70 countries it is against the law. Some even execute gay people, such as our ally S Arabia...
Yes, the media plays a big part in the west and pushes the governments agenda. They demonise a person or nation and softens up the public for when invasion comes. Disgrace.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Glow, the first country that has to recognise and come to terms with its past is Croatia. In WW2 the nazi Croat state murdered 1 million (give or take) Serbs, Jews and Roma. That country has never apologised or even shown regret at what it did. Even today many Croats deny it ever happened. Read again Glow...1 million people. And NEVER have you condemned this murder. Why? In '95 the Croats again went to action and cleansed up to 300K Serbs. You, like the west, ignore this.
So dont come on this forum talking about Serb crimes when the biggest crimes were committed against Serbs. Why dont you condemn crimes against Serbs?

Gjon Fusha

pre 5 godina

Yes Mrs Zakharova, killing over 10 000 albanians, looting and destroying 200 000 homes and properties, expelling more than half of population over 1 millions from their homes, raping thousand of women they all are 'lies'to you.

bob

pre 5 godina

Below are excerpts of a report written by Human Rights Watch on abuses conducted by the KLA in 1999. "In Lipljan, a Serb male was decapitated in the middle of the town's busy market on July 9,  according to KFOR military police in the town. As of July 16, no witnesses had come forward. There are numerous reports of killings where it has been difficult to identify the perpetrators because so many Serbs have fled or are afraid." "When Maria Filipovic returned from shopping, German KFOR troops had already discovered that her husband had been attacked as well, and was dying from his stab wounds. As Maria stood in front of her home crying, her Albanian Catholic neighbors told her that KLA members had committed the killings. Both victims had their throats cut. German soldiers told Human Rights Watch that Marica Stamenkovic had been nearly decapitated." "They (KLA) took the old man's pants off and threatened him with a gun. They told him that they'd rip his eyes out of their sockets. Then they took the blunt end of a knife and gave him these two black eyes. They asked him: "Whose country is this?" When my brother-in-law answered that it's for everyone, they weren't satisfied. They said it belongs to the KLA, and they forced him to say this." "He and his friends in KLA uniforms began to beat me again. Then he took his gun which was empty and said, "Kill me." I said, "I don't know how to use it." He hit me in the head. Someone [else] began beating me with a baseball bat. The KLA commander and two others and two women took me to another room. He had a pair of scissors and told me, "We're going to cut your fingers and ears off." "Killings of Serb civilians took place near the village of Gracko, in central Kosovo. Fourteen farmers were shot dead as they harvested hay in the single biggest massacre since KFOR entered the province. The farmers were reportedly shot at close range." Another set of killings took place on June 19 in the village of Belo Polje, near Pec. Visiting the village a day later, a Human Rights Watch researcher viewed the bodies of three ethnic Serb men, each of whom had been killed by a shot between the eyes at point-blank range. Serb villagers who claimed to have witnessed the attack told Human Rights Watch that ten uniformed KLA soldiers entered the village and "executed" the three men at approximately 5:30 p.m. According to the Serbian Orthodox Church in Pec, approximately thirty Serbs were killed in the Pec municipality in the months of June and July, although the circumstances of their deaths are mostly unknown. Malica Miric, twenty-six, was allegedly killed by two men, one in KLA uniform, in Belo Polje on June 26. Milena Vujsevic was allegedly killed by unknown assailants in her Pec home on June 27. There have been multiple killings of Serbs in Kosovo's capital, Pristina. On June 23, the body of Milenko Lekovic, a Serb professor for the economics faculty, was found in the faculty's basement, along with the bodies of Miodrag Mladenovic, a Serb guard in the building, and Jovica Stamenkovic, a Serb waiter from a cafe in the building. Lekovic and the other men had been shot and beaten with a blunt instrument. Human Rights Watch has also received a report about the killing of four elderly men from the village of Slivovo in Pristina municipality. Several security incidents in the town of Lipljan appear linked to efforts to force Serbs to leave. Exactly a week after the decapitation of a Serb in the town's market on July 5, there were four grenade attacks on Serb homes in Lipljan in the early afternoon, killing one person. Marko Vitosevic’s wife and one of his sons had left the house only a day before and moved to the part of Orahovac/Rahovec where Serbs lived, but he had stayed on to keep an eye on the premises. Marko’s other son, Zvezdan, who was already living in another part of town, said that witnesses told him that KLA fighters went from house to house, tying people up and escorting them out. “They crammed them into a car and drove off in an unknown direction,” Zvezdan Vitosevic said. He said he later learned from another Serb, who was seized alongside his father, that the KLA tortured them at their headquarters at the local Fire Department, then took them to the outskirts of town in the evening. The other Serb said he escaped when the KLA fighters untied his hands. While running away, he heard the fighters shooting. “He heard gunfire, but didn’t see the executions. Since then there has been no trace [of my father],” Zvezdan Vitosevic said. "Earlier, Serbs reported that a 90-year-old woman, Ljubica Vujovic, had been held down in her bathtub and drowned." “Milos Petrovic, Serb, 16 years old was shot in the head at close range by members of the KLA disguised as Italian K-FOR troops.” "An OSCE official reports that in Zupa, a 96-year-old Serb man was found bound and gagged with a gunshot wound to the head. In Kamenica, a Serb woman, 82, who had been ordered to leave her house was burnt to death in her home."

Joseph

pre 5 godina

Who can one trust?
only the bible. A great blessing.

WMD
Jeremiah ch. 50&51. esp. 51:26 and 62. Jehovah states Babylon shall never b rebuilt. But sadam started to rebuild it. The overthrow was by Jehovah! Isaiah 19 states Assyria (north Iraq) will become Jehovah's people .

Glow

pre 5 godina

(Watcher, 1 March 2019 21:49

So all of Kosova, Bosnia and Croatia is lying about these crimes not counting that all of these crimes have been well documented by the international organizations?

Answer this please....


Also, if Germany didn't take responsibility for what Hitler did back then they would have never become the country they are today! Remember that the longer Serbia denies all these crimes the longer it is going to take for your new generations to overcome these things! One has to take accountability for their actions and not turn a blind eye hoping those things will go away!

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Just to conclude on my last point I would like to say that western governments decide where to butt in and how. Mostly its got little to do with truth, justice or int. law. But everything to do with interests of the west (USA, Britain, France, etc). So many examples of this that it becomes so obvious.
The latest in focus is Venezuela. The US now supports a 35 yr old for president. Guaido is an unknown even in Venezuela. I'll bet you the US has him in their pocket and if he gets in just watch US oil companies pile in.
What is funny is that America has had sanctions on Venezuela for ages, and here they are now wanting to send aid to the people of Venezuela.? Just amazing.
So people, its all about interests (just follow the money) and nothing to do with justice, truth or rule of law.
But I'm sure Albanians, Croats and Bosnian muslims will disagree, but not tackle my specific points.

Mr. Disagreeable

pre 5 godina

Hope you understand, why the proper symbol of the set representing Russian troops in Racak is "Ø". (Ataman, 2 March 2019 07:42)

I'm sorry Ataman but I must disagree with you. Your estimate was way too low.

The number of troops in Racak was equal to 987,593,329 x "Ø"

Avni

pre 5 godina

Milo organizuje kontramiting protiv "Velike Srbije"

Na Trgu nezavisnosti u Podgorici je za 24. mart, na godišnjicu NATO bombardovanja SRJ, putem Fejsbuk stranice "100p Ponovnoj izdaji Crne Gore" zakazan "veliki antifašistički i patriotski protest" pod nazivom "Crna Gora iznad svega", koji se organizuje u jeku optužbi i protesta sa kojima se suočava predsednik Crne Gore Milo Đukanović.

https://www.vesti-online.com/Vesti/Ex-YU/729000/Milo-organizuje-kontramiting-protiv-Velike-Srbije

Watcher

pre 5 godina

Trump leader of the free world says [link] fake news.
(Lenard, 1 March 2019 19:34) # Comme

@ lenardovic - fully agree! Fake news... better known as “false flags”...what’s your point?
Remember “weopans of mass destruction”...”9.11”...”Racak”...Sarajevo market shelling”...
Nothing new...these are “set-ups” in order to hype up a action plan... been happening since, like, forever!
The thing is... the truth always will surface, especially with the technology of today!
People are not so dumb anymore, they actually see this stuff now!

* and I’m also saying every government is guilty of this... including BG!
Nothing new!

@Blue

pre 5 godina

The Western Media was Very important to NATO they Raised ant Serbian sentiment every day for long time even after the war ended and to this day they had no real reason to attack Serbia so they raise Fake News for very long time that help NATO to start War against the Serbian people. Bill Clinton sighned a Dayton agreement and soon as it was sighned he said it was worthless. and decided to occupy Kosovo with NATO The Serbians shoul start Resistance war against KFOR and the illigal Albanians who occupied Kosovo illegally.

Ataman

pre 5 godina

yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did
(T, 1 March 2019 18:47)

Indeed, I was the commander of all Russian military units stationed in Racak. And, seriously, I am telling the truth.

Hope, you know the meaning of "Ø" symbol and that all properties of a zero set (and their opposite) are true.

For instance:

- The sentence like "All Martians, living on the bottom of Vezuve crater have five noses" is true.

- The sentence like "Some Martians living, on the bottom of Vezuve crater do not have five noses" is also true.

Hope you understand, why the proper symbol of the set representing Russian troops in Racak is "Ø".

Guest

pre 5 godina

As someone who lives in the west this is fake news. Serbia has a more positive image than Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania for different reasons.

Watcher

pre 5 godina

Maria Zakharova I know how stupid you are but I didn’t know how dumb you can be, yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did was KLA fighters I didn’t know that KLA had old woman and children under 8 years old fighting for them so stop 🛑 serbia and Russia I hope god makes them pay for genocide they did all over the Balkan’s
(T, 1 March 2019 18:47)

@ taj - You , Sir, are a Liar! The world already knows the Racak "massacre" was a set-up for outside forces to get involved!
The "International Community" was overlooking the Genocide going on in Rwanda at the same time...and you think a dozen or two dead fighting men would have made a difference in the grand scheme of things??
You're delusional!
It's OK...even if it was a set-up! It did it purpose at that time! Problem is that the truth now is making it's way to the surface...it always does!
Gone are the days when you could lie so blatantly and get away with it! The "winds of change" are here! Suck it up!

Albert

pre 5 godina

There was a report made by the (now defunct) Swedish Board of Psychological Defence about the role of the media in the Kosovo war. This is in Swedish, but you can translate it to english with online tools. https://www.msb.se/Upload/Produkter_tjanster/Publikationer/SPF/Kampen%20om%20det%20kommunikativa%20rummet.pdf
TLDR: Only the views of NATO were presented by the media to the Swedish audience and that played a big role in how the people in Sweden perceived the war. The Serbian side of the story did not reach the Swedish audience at all. The agency calls it "the battle for the communicative room" and that Serbia lost it.

Zoran

pre 5 godina

Yes, we Serbs are all too familiar with fake news, coming from the west and going back to the 90s. Now it seems the whole world is catching up and even the US president calls those outlets fakes news today. LOL! It is now being used to destroy the US. Karma comes to mind.

T

pre 5 godina

Maria Zakharova I know how stupid you are but I didn’t know how dumb you can be, yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did was KLA fighters I didn’t know that KLA had old woman and children under 8 years old fighting for them so stop 🛑 serbia and Russia I hope god makes them pay for genocide they did all over the Balkan’s

Principa, Gracanica, kosovo & Metohija Srbija

pre 5 godina

The lies and deceit of WMG (whereabouts of Mass Graves) that never were with spin of outright lies of 100,000 missing dead by every Western media, politician and NATO officials were a preclude to the lies of WMD to illegally wage war on Iraq.

Not surprising is the biggest and aptly renamed Tony BLiar.

jugoslavija

pre 5 godina

That same bought and sold fake western media is on a rampage trying to oust Donald Trump and his presidency splitting America in two. The Demonization of Milosevic has boomeranged to the demonization of Donald Trump, but he has close to 50% of the American population supporting him.

Azir

pre 5 godina

International Law was buried when Serbia:

Illegally deported over one million former Yugoslav citizens aka KOSOVARS!

Serbia created ,organized,financed ,supported with logistics ,weapons ,intelligence and morally backed paramilitary units in their futile Greater Serbia campaign of aggression!

Russia’s aggression in Crimea speaks volumes!

Peter The Rocky Mountains

pre 5 godina

You as a Putin lapdog should focus on how to mend ties with Ukraine and end your illegal occupation of Ukrainian Crimea!

As for the Balkans and Europe, you will not be allowed to divide Europe again, you did that for way to long during the Soviet Union nightmare which caused unbearable misery on Europe’s populations!!!

bert

pre 5 godina

rusky garbage at it again. this is not ukraine. this is albanian american territory. you will be melted in fire if you dare think of anything

Bloke

pre 5 godina

Western media was disgusted at the killings in Bosnia. Good that NATO put a stop to it there and in Kosovo.

The Balkan wars were fought disgustingly and without honour.

What of those murdered bodies bought back to Serbia to hide them. That’s the kind of thing NATO stopped.

I am disgusted at suppression of Russian free media and Putin setting himself up as President for Life.

Sadly, Serbia turned itself into a pariah state. Shame, because I love Serbia.

Stop whinging about NATO. Milosevic asked for it and got it.

Principa, Gracanica, kosovo & Metohija Srbija

pre 5 godina

The lies and deceit of WMG (whereabouts of Mass Graves) that never were with spin of outright lies of 100,000 missing dead by every Western media, politician and NATO officials were a preclude to the lies of WMD to illegally wage war on Iraq.

Not surprising is the biggest and aptly renamed Tony BLiar.

bert

pre 5 godina

rusky garbage at it again. this is not ukraine. this is albanian american territory. you will be melted in fire if you dare think of anything

jugoslavija

pre 5 godina

That same bought and sold fake western media is on a rampage trying to oust Donald Trump and his presidency splitting America in two. The Demonization of Milosevic has boomeranged to the demonization of Donald Trump, but he has close to 50% of the American population supporting him.

Bloke

pre 5 godina

Western media was disgusted at the killings in Bosnia. Good that NATO put a stop to it there and in Kosovo.

The Balkan wars were fought disgustingly and without honour.

What of those murdered bodies bought back to Serbia to hide them. That’s the kind of thing NATO stopped.

I am disgusted at suppression of Russian free media and Putin setting himself up as President for Life.

Sadly, Serbia turned itself into a pariah state. Shame, because I love Serbia.

Stop whinging about NATO. Milosevic asked for it and got it.

T

pre 5 godina

Maria Zakharova I know how stupid you are but I didn’t know how dumb you can be, yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did was KLA fighters I didn’t know that KLA had old woman and children under 8 years old fighting for them so stop 🛑 serbia and Russia I hope god makes them pay for genocide they did all over the Balkan’s

Azir

pre 5 godina

International Law was buried when Serbia:

Illegally deported over one million former Yugoslav citizens aka KOSOVARS!

Serbia created ,organized,financed ,supported with logistics ,weapons ,intelligence and morally backed paramilitary units in their futile Greater Serbia campaign of aggression!

Russia’s aggression in Crimea speaks volumes!

Zoran

pre 5 godina

Yes, we Serbs are all too familiar with fake news, coming from the west and going back to the 90s. Now it seems the whole world is catching up and even the US president calls those outlets fakes news today. LOL! It is now being used to destroy the US. Karma comes to mind.

bob

pre 5 godina

Below are excerpts of a report written by Human Rights Watch on abuses conducted by the KLA in 1999. "In Lipljan, a Serb male was decapitated in the middle of the town's busy market on July 9,  according to KFOR military police in the town. As of July 16, no witnesses had come forward. There are numerous reports of killings where it has been difficult to identify the perpetrators because so many Serbs have fled or are afraid." "When Maria Filipovic returned from shopping, German KFOR troops had already discovered that her husband had been attacked as well, and was dying from his stab wounds. As Maria stood in front of her home crying, her Albanian Catholic neighbors told her that KLA members had committed the killings. Both victims had their throats cut. German soldiers told Human Rights Watch that Marica Stamenkovic had been nearly decapitated." "They (KLA) took the old man's pants off and threatened him with a gun. They told him that they'd rip his eyes out of their sockets. Then they took the blunt end of a knife and gave him these two black eyes. They asked him: "Whose country is this?" When my brother-in-law answered that it's for everyone, they weren't satisfied. They said it belongs to the KLA, and they forced him to say this." "He and his friends in KLA uniforms began to beat me again. Then he took his gun which was empty and said, "Kill me." I said, "I don't know how to use it." He hit me in the head. Someone [else] began beating me with a baseball bat. The KLA commander and two others and two women took me to another room. He had a pair of scissors and told me, "We're going to cut your fingers and ears off." "Killings of Serb civilians took place near the village of Gracko, in central Kosovo. Fourteen farmers were shot dead as they harvested hay in the single biggest massacre since KFOR entered the province. The farmers were reportedly shot at close range." Another set of killings took place on June 19 in the village of Belo Polje, near Pec. Visiting the village a day later, a Human Rights Watch researcher viewed the bodies of three ethnic Serb men, each of whom had been killed by a shot between the eyes at point-blank range. Serb villagers who claimed to have witnessed the attack told Human Rights Watch that ten uniformed KLA soldiers entered the village and "executed" the three men at approximately 5:30 p.m. According to the Serbian Orthodox Church in Pec, approximately thirty Serbs were killed in the Pec municipality in the months of June and July, although the circumstances of their deaths are mostly unknown. Malica Miric, twenty-six, was allegedly killed by two men, one in KLA uniform, in Belo Polje on June 26. Milena Vujsevic was allegedly killed by unknown assailants in her Pec home on June 27. There have been multiple killings of Serbs in Kosovo's capital, Pristina. On June 23, the body of Milenko Lekovic, a Serb professor for the economics faculty, was found in the faculty's basement, along with the bodies of Miodrag Mladenovic, a Serb guard in the building, and Jovica Stamenkovic, a Serb waiter from a cafe in the building. Lekovic and the other men had been shot and beaten with a blunt instrument. Human Rights Watch has also received a report about the killing of four elderly men from the village of Slivovo in Pristina municipality. Several security incidents in the town of Lipljan appear linked to efforts to force Serbs to leave. Exactly a week after the decapitation of a Serb in the town's market on July 5, there were four grenade attacks on Serb homes in Lipljan in the early afternoon, killing one person. Marko Vitosevic’s wife and one of his sons had left the house only a day before and moved to the part of Orahovac/Rahovec where Serbs lived, but he had stayed on to keep an eye on the premises. Marko’s other son, Zvezdan, who was already living in another part of town, said that witnesses told him that KLA fighters went from house to house, tying people up and escorting them out. “They crammed them into a car and drove off in an unknown direction,” Zvezdan Vitosevic said. He said he later learned from another Serb, who was seized alongside his father, that the KLA tortured them at their headquarters at the local Fire Department, then took them to the outskirts of town in the evening. The other Serb said he escaped when the KLA fighters untied his hands. While running away, he heard the fighters shooting. “He heard gunfire, but didn’t see the executions. Since then there has been no trace [of my father],” Zvezdan Vitosevic said. "Earlier, Serbs reported that a 90-year-old woman, Ljubica Vujovic, had been held down in her bathtub and drowned." “Milos Petrovic, Serb, 16 years old was shot in the head at close range by members of the KLA disguised as Italian K-FOR troops.” "An OSCE official reports that in Zupa, a 96-year-old Serb man was found bound and gagged with a gunshot wound to the head. In Kamenica, a Serb woman, 82, who had been ordered to leave her house was burnt to death in her home."

Peter The Rocky Mountains

pre 5 godina

You as a Putin lapdog should focus on how to mend ties with Ukraine and end your illegal occupation of Ukrainian Crimea!

As for the Balkans and Europe, you will not be allowed to divide Europe again, you did that for way to long during the Soviet Union nightmare which caused unbearable misery on Europe’s populations!!!

Watcher

pre 5 godina

Maria Zakharova I know how stupid you are but I didn’t know how dumb you can be, yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did was KLA fighters I didn’t know that KLA had old woman and children under 8 years old fighting for them so stop 🛑 serbia and Russia I hope god makes them pay for genocide they did all over the Balkan’s
(T, 1 March 2019 18:47)

@ taj - You , Sir, are a Liar! The world already knows the Racak "massacre" was a set-up for outside forces to get involved!
The "International Community" was overlooking the Genocide going on in Rwanda at the same time...and you think a dozen or two dead fighting men would have made a difference in the grand scheme of things??
You're delusional!
It's OK...even if it was a set-up! It did it purpose at that time! Problem is that the truth now is making it's way to the surface...it always does!
Gone are the days when you could lie so blatantly and get away with it! The "winds of change" are here! Suck it up!

sj

pre 5 godina

(Glow, 2 March 2019 23:38)
The first casualty of war is the truth and if you can make your enemy look really bad then your well on the way to getting outside sympathy.
Racak did happened but it was your Albos with William Walker CIA operative that killed those people to make the Serbs look bad – it’s what started the bombing. The Sarajevo market massacre is well documented in the UN. UN investigators concluded that the mortar shells could not have come from Serb positions but from inside Sarajevo, but that report was conveniently buried by the US to levy the harshest sanction in world history on Serbia; another set up.
Now my favourite myth is Srebrenica. The Serbs have suggested many times to hold an independent investigation with prominent experts from outside BiH but alas the Bosniaks refuse. Why? Because the genocide myth is pure BS since all old men, boys women and small children were bused out of Srebrenica.
Croats are whingers hoping their lack of military prowess will be covered by Vukovar. Ask the Bosniaks what their allies the Croats did to them during the 1990s.
Germany ran concentration camps gassing anyone who was against Hitler’s authority, Roma, Communists, Jews and homosexuals. They have plenty to admit to. Serbs did nothing of the kind.
Sweetie your lot are not angels so when are they going to take responsibility?

Albert

pre 5 godina

There was a report made by the (now defunct) Swedish Board of Psychological Defence about the role of the media in the Kosovo war. This is in Swedish, but you can translate it to english with online tools. https://www.msb.se/Upload/Produkter_tjanster/Publikationer/SPF/Kampen%20om%20det%20kommunikativa%20rummet.pdf
TLDR: Only the views of NATO were presented by the media to the Swedish audience and that played a big role in how the people in Sweden perceived the war. The Serbian side of the story did not reach the Swedish audience at all. The agency calls it "the battle for the communicative room" and that Serbia lost it.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Just to conclude on my last point I would like to say that western governments decide where to butt in and how. Mostly its got little to do with truth, justice or int. law. But everything to do with interests of the west (USA, Britain, France, etc). So many examples of this that it becomes so obvious.
The latest in focus is Venezuela. The US now supports a 35 yr old for president. Guaido is an unknown even in Venezuela. I'll bet you the US has him in their pocket and if he gets in just watch US oil companies pile in.
What is funny is that America has had sanctions on Venezuela for ages, and here they are now wanting to send aid to the people of Venezuela.? Just amazing.
So people, its all about interests (just follow the money) and nothing to do with justice, truth or rule of law.
But I'm sure Albanians, Croats and Bosnian muslims will disagree, but not tackle my specific points.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Bob, well highlighted. The only problem is that your post only scratches the surface.
I did read about 4 or 5 years ago that since the turn of the century there had been around 2000 Serbs that had been found murdered or just missing. And the amazing thing (or maybe not so amazing) is that there had been not one arrest in connection to those murdered or missing.
These sorts of things had been going on since the 1970s with provocations, burning of property, harrassment, bullying, etc.
But of course the world ignores this, just as they ignored the cleansing of Serbs from Croatia in '95.
Its a sad world we live in where propaganda and percetion rules. Where "marketing companies" such as Ruder & Finn, Cambridge Analytica, etc distort the truth. And the saddest thing is that western governments use these corrupt companies to start illegal wats in places like Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan. They now doing it to Venezuela.

@Blue

pre 5 godina

The Western Media was Very important to NATO they Raised ant Serbian sentiment every day for long time even after the war ended and to this day they had no real reason to attack Serbia so they raise Fake News for very long time that help NATO to start War against the Serbian people. Bill Clinton sighned a Dayton agreement and soon as it was sighned he said it was worthless. and decided to occupy Kosovo with NATO The Serbians shoul start Resistance war against KFOR and the illigal Albanians who occupied Kosovo illegally.

Watcher

pre 5 godina

Trump leader of the free world says [link] fake news.
(Lenard, 1 March 2019 19:34) # Comme

@ lenardovic - fully agree! Fake news... better known as “false flags”...what’s your point?
Remember “weopans of mass destruction”...”9.11”...”Racak”...Sarajevo market shelling”...
Nothing new...these are “set-ups” in order to hype up a action plan... been happening since, like, forever!
The thing is... the truth always will surface, especially with the technology of today!
People are not so dumb anymore, they actually see this stuff now!

* and I’m also saying every government is guilty of this... including BG!
Nothing new!

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Glow, the first country that has to recognise and come to terms with its past is Croatia. In WW2 the nazi Croat state murdered 1 million (give or take) Serbs, Jews and Roma. That country has never apologised or even shown regret at what it did. Even today many Croats deny it ever happened. Read again Glow...1 million people. And NEVER have you condemned this murder. Why? In '95 the Croats again went to action and cleansed up to 300K Serbs. You, like the west, ignore this.
So dont come on this forum talking about Serb crimes when the biggest crimes were committed against Serbs. Why dont you condemn crimes against Serbs?

Ataman

pre 5 godina

yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did
(T, 1 March 2019 18:47)

Indeed, I was the commander of all Russian military units stationed in Racak. And, seriously, I am telling the truth.

Hope, you know the meaning of "Ø" symbol and that all properties of a zero set (and their opposite) are true.

For instance:

- The sentence like "All Martians, living on the bottom of Vezuve crater have five noses" is true.

- The sentence like "Some Martians living, on the bottom of Vezuve crater do not have five noses" is also true.

Hope you understand, why the proper symbol of the set representing Russian troops in Racak is "Ø".

sj

pre 5 godina

(Dardania'Alb, 4 March 2019 19:03)

Your really terrible at this. Just like your pathetic effort to prove Albos were in the Balkans since the dawn of time, your comments here are even worse. What a stupid concoction of comments. Adding 2 plus 2 and getting 92. Why don’t your Albos from Montenegro, Kosovo or Greece join with Albania?
Serbia never invaded Slovenia and Kosovo is part of Serbia bum dumb. Go back and try and prove Albos came from Atlantis.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

I did send another post but either got lost or not published.
Zakharova is correct about western media. I recall that in '95 there was nothing in the British media about Croatia cleansing up to 300K Serbs. Vast majority of Brits have no idea this even happened. Why is that? Yet the bread queue massacre was on every media outlet. But when it was proved it was the Bosnian muslims who planted the bombs to kill their own it was not reported.
There are many examples where things were blamed on Serbs and well publicised but never the other way. Even Milosevic's exoneration by the Hague is little known, so people here still think he was found guilty.
The media here is also anti Putin. For example they often talk of Putins "anti gay laws". But its not illegal to be gay in Russia. But in over 70 countries it is against the law. Some even execute gay people, such as our ally S Arabia...
Yes, the media plays a big part in the west and pushes the governments agenda. They demonise a person or nation and softens up the public for when invasion comes. Disgrace.

Darkly Machiever

pre 5 godina

Slow news day....yawning!
(Glow, 1 March 2019 18:56
__________________________________________________________________________

Go and get a job then.

Guest

pre 5 godina

As someone who lives in the west this is fake news. Serbia has a more positive image than Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania for different reasons.

sj

pre 5 godina

(Glow, 4 March 2019 19:08)
Sweetie first I graduated from excellent universities not from any clown colleges in Pristina and Tirana.
I have forgotten more about what occurred in the former Yugoslvaia in the 1990s than you will ever know on the subject.
No, the entire world is not against Serbia and no one ever said that. Its just the western countries, led by the US, which by the way, is now involved in another spectacularly failure called Venezuela LOL. The US wanted the breakup of Yugoslavia but stepped on a pebble called Serbs and they are now stuck. They have done everything to get the Serbs to like them even make Albos look like low life over the taxes; sent an Ambassador who speaks Serbian, but no luck. But they sent you someone to Pristina who barely can speak English and you guys grovel.
No sweetie the Hague is not a Court but a Tribunal – read up on the difference. And no, the EU or your beloved US have no interest in the Hague.
The Serbs have repeated ad nauseum to the EU they will not recognise Kosovo, they will not join in sanctions against Russia and no more Hague; and if they don’t like that Brussels should stop the talks with Belgrade to join the EU. Chapter after chapter continues. I am against Serbia joining any way and any help from you would be most appreciated.
The only reason no more in the EU for now, the EU economies have been faltering since 2008 and money is a problem to meet financial obligations to new members. That’s all.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania...such a simplistic view. Firstly there was no war in Slovenia, so please dont write trash. Secondly, Serbia never invaded Bosnia. That was a 3 sided civil war. Serbs & Croats didnt want to live in a muslim/islamic dominated nation. Remember that Milosevic was not guilty of anything (according to The Hague, who were desperate to find him guilty). In Croatia I think it was well known what Croats planned for Serbs. Considering what happened in WW2, would you not worry? And guess what up to 300k Serbs cleansed for ever. And what did the west do about this dreadful act..? Yep, nothing. As for Kosovo its known that the Albos had been planning for decades to rip Kosovo from Serbia (a sovereign country with clear & accepted borders). Lobbying and a lot of cash went to US politicians (such as Bob Dole) and set ups like Racak convinced the west to illegaly attack Serbia (no UN resolutions).
Say what you like but Serbia has been blamed for everything, while other crimes by Croats, Bosnians and Albos ignored. Its shameful and a disgrace.

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

view from uk, of course there was a war in Slovenia, it's called the ten-day war or the Slovenian independence war. it's hard to imagine that you are not aware of this known historical event that started the yugoslav wars. which really only goes to show how deluded many serbs have become on the actual events of the conflicts and now thinking themselves as the victims in a war they started. the Slovenia invasion is a very clear pattern of what serbian state did against it's neighbors during the 90's. it's amazing to think that there are still serbs attempting to hide this history and deny it at every corner.

Avni

pre 5 godina

Milo organizuje kontramiting protiv "Velike Srbije"

Na Trgu nezavisnosti u Podgorici je za 24. mart, na godišnjicu NATO bombardovanja SRJ, putem Fejsbuk stranice "100p Ponovnoj izdaji Crne Gore" zakazan "veliki antifašistički i patriotski protest" pod nazivom "Crna Gora iznad svega", koji se organizuje u jeku optužbi i protesta sa kojima se suočava predsednik Crne Gore Milo Đukanović.

https://www.vesti-online.com/Vesti/Ex-YU/729000/Milo-organizuje-kontramiting-protiv-Velike-Srbije

Gjon Fusha

pre 5 godina

Yes Mrs Zakharova, killing over 10 000 albanians, looting and destroying 200 000 homes and properties, expelling more than half of population over 1 millions from their homes, raping thousand of women they all are 'lies'to you.

Glow

pre 5 godina

(Watcher, 1 March 2019 21:49

So all of Kosova, Bosnia and Croatia is lying about these crimes not counting that all of these crimes have been well documented by the international organizations?

Answer this please....


Also, if Germany didn't take responsibility for what Hitler did back then they would have never become the country they are today! Remember that the longer Serbia denies all these crimes the longer it is going to take for your new generations to overcome these things! One has to take accountability for their actions and not turn a blind eye hoping those things will go away!

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

VIEW FROM UK, the west this, the west that .... no one forced serbia to illegally consolidate political power and yugoslav military assets at the expense of the other provinces. no one forced serbia to then use those military assets to invade Slovenia Croatia, Bosnia and Kosova. your own politicians and military commanders in serbia were literally on serbian state television making open threats of violence, invasions and genocide towards the other provinces that were talking about independence. you need to step back a bit and ask yourself, what does that say about serbia if even your own Slavic kin did not want any kind of mutual union with serbia.

Joseph

pre 5 godina

Who can one trust?
only the bible. A great blessing.

WMD
Jeremiah ch. 50&51. esp. 51:26 and 62. Jehovah states Babylon shall never b rebuilt. But sadam started to rebuild it. The overthrow was by Jehovah! Isaiah 19 states Assyria (north Iraq) will become Jehovah's people .

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania, stop trying to rewrite history. War in Slovenia?? As far as I recall a number of JNA bases were attacked/threatened by Slovenian extremists. I recall young soldiers being dragged out of a tank by Slovenians.
How many were killed in this "war" in Slovenia? How many battles took place? Can you name any place where battles were in Slovenia? I've seen more violence in a British city centre on a friday night after a lot of drinking. So please no false stories.
Serbia did not send any troops to Bosnia, it was a 3 sided conflict between the people who lived there. If Serbia is guilty of anything in Bosnia then Croatia is just as guilty. Remember Milosevic was found not guilty in the Hague (as much as you want him to be guilty).
And if I was a Serb in Croatia in the '90s I would have been worried. Thats when you consider what Croats did to Serbs in the 1940s. And the plan went well for Croats by cleansing up to 300k Serbs for ever. Can you condemn the crimes against Serbs in the 1940s and '95 in Croatia? Not one Albanian condemns these acts, why is that?

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania, to continue. As I said in previous post the Serbs have been blamed for everything. Many now in jails, rightly so. But can you explain how nobody held responsible for cleansing 300k Serbs from Croaria? Did you miss that? Why do no Albos condemn the market place massacre which the Bosnians conducted to blame Serbs (proved). Why no Albos condemn the murder of up to 4000 Serb men, women and children around Srebrenica by Oric? Mladic as an act of revenged did what he did and rightly jailed.
I would take you seriously and like to debate, but not one Albanian has condemned crimes against Serbs. You just ignore it. Why is that? Are you quietly pleased that Serbs cleansed out of Croatia (which the Croat state celebrates..!? Amazing, eh?)

Glow

pre 5 godina

(sj, 4 March 2019 10:43

Here we have another one of those that has graduated from the Brainwash Academy of Serbia! Addressing your kind is a complete waste of time! Poor Serbia... the entire world is against them! Give me a freaking break and if you have any human decency don't speak of the war victims you know NOTHING about! It is pathetic and disgusting! Hauge criminal court will be in high gear getting a load of serbian criminals as this dialogue agreement is reached! Mark my words that Serbia is going to be pressured by EU and USA to turn in all their criminals!
The USA has already gave EU a condition that they can't have Serbia join the EU without having them deal with International Justice first! Walls are closing in and your made-up reality is going to be CRUSHED!

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

view from uk, in fact, there were 2 separate massacres at markale. and Radovan Karadzic was found guilty using the same argument you are making for the markale massacre(s). the ICTY Trial Chamber concluded that both attacks were committed by Serb forces around Sarajevo.

Mr. Disagreeable

pre 5 godina

Hope you understand, why the proper symbol of the set representing Russian troops in Racak is "Ø". (Ataman, 2 March 2019 07:42)

I'm sorry Ataman but I must disagree with you. Your estimate was way too low.

The number of troops in Racak was equal to 987,593,329 x "Ø"

bert

pre 5 godina

rusky garbage at it again. this is not ukraine. this is albanian american territory. you will be melted in fire if you dare think of anything

T

pre 5 godina

Maria Zakharova I know how stupid you are but I didn’t know how dumb you can be, yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did was KLA fighters I didn’t know that KLA had old woman and children under 8 years old fighting for them so stop 🛑 serbia and Russia I hope god makes them pay for genocide they did all over the Balkan’s

Bloke

pre 5 godina

Western media was disgusted at the killings in Bosnia. Good that NATO put a stop to it there and in Kosovo.

The Balkan wars were fought disgustingly and without honour.

What of those murdered bodies bought back to Serbia to hide them. That’s the kind of thing NATO stopped.

I am disgusted at suppression of Russian free media and Putin setting himself up as President for Life.

Sadly, Serbia turned itself into a pariah state. Shame, because I love Serbia.

Stop whinging about NATO. Milosevic asked for it and got it.

Azir

pre 5 godina

International Law was buried when Serbia:

Illegally deported over one million former Yugoslav citizens aka KOSOVARS!

Serbia created ,organized,financed ,supported with logistics ,weapons ,intelligence and morally backed paramilitary units in their futile Greater Serbia campaign of aggression!

Russia’s aggression in Crimea speaks volumes!

Peter The Rocky Mountains

pre 5 godina

You as a Putin lapdog should focus on how to mend ties with Ukraine and end your illegal occupation of Ukrainian Crimea!

As for the Balkans and Europe, you will not be allowed to divide Europe again, you did that for way to long during the Soviet Union nightmare which caused unbearable misery on Europe’s populations!!!

Glow

pre 5 godina

(Watcher, 1 March 2019 21:49

So all of Kosova, Bosnia and Croatia is lying about these crimes not counting that all of these crimes have been well documented by the international organizations?

Answer this please....


Also, if Germany didn't take responsibility for what Hitler did back then they would have never become the country they are today! Remember that the longer Serbia denies all these crimes the longer it is going to take for your new generations to overcome these things! One has to take accountability for their actions and not turn a blind eye hoping those things will go away!

Principa, Gracanica, kosovo & Metohija Srbija

pre 5 godina

The lies and deceit of WMG (whereabouts of Mass Graves) that never were with spin of outright lies of 100,000 missing dead by every Western media, politician and NATO officials were a preclude to the lies of WMD to illegally wage war on Iraq.

Not surprising is the biggest and aptly renamed Tony BLiar.

jugoslavija

pre 5 godina

That same bought and sold fake western media is on a rampage trying to oust Donald Trump and his presidency splitting America in two. The Demonization of Milosevic has boomeranged to the demonization of Donald Trump, but he has close to 50% of the American population supporting him.

Avni

pre 5 godina

Milo organizuje kontramiting protiv "Velike Srbije"

Na Trgu nezavisnosti u Podgorici je za 24. mart, na godišnjicu NATO bombardovanja SRJ, putem Fejsbuk stranice "100p Ponovnoj izdaji Crne Gore" zakazan "veliki antifašistički i patriotski protest" pod nazivom "Crna Gora iznad svega", koji se organizuje u jeku optužbi i protesta sa kojima se suočava predsednik Crne Gore Milo Đukanović.

https://www.vesti-online.com/Vesti/Ex-YU/729000/Milo-organizuje-kontramiting-protiv-Velike-Srbije

Gjon Fusha

pre 5 godina

Yes Mrs Zakharova, killing over 10 000 albanians, looting and destroying 200 000 homes and properties, expelling more than half of population over 1 millions from their homes, raping thousand of women they all are 'lies'to you.

Glow

pre 5 godina

(sj, 4 March 2019 10:43

Here we have another one of those that has graduated from the Brainwash Academy of Serbia! Addressing your kind is a complete waste of time! Poor Serbia... the entire world is against them! Give me a freaking break and if you have any human decency don't speak of the war victims you know NOTHING about! It is pathetic and disgusting! Hauge criminal court will be in high gear getting a load of serbian criminals as this dialogue agreement is reached! Mark my words that Serbia is going to be pressured by EU and USA to turn in all their criminals!
The USA has already gave EU a condition that they can't have Serbia join the EU without having them deal with International Justice first! Walls are closing in and your made-up reality is going to be CRUSHED!

bob

pre 5 godina

Below are excerpts of a report written by Human Rights Watch on abuses conducted by the KLA in 1999. "In Lipljan, a Serb male was decapitated in the middle of the town's busy market on July 9,  according to KFOR military police in the town. As of July 16, no witnesses had come forward. There are numerous reports of killings where it has been difficult to identify the perpetrators because so many Serbs have fled or are afraid." "When Maria Filipovic returned from shopping, German KFOR troops had already discovered that her husband had been attacked as well, and was dying from his stab wounds. As Maria stood in front of her home crying, her Albanian Catholic neighbors told her that KLA members had committed the killings. Both victims had their throats cut. German soldiers told Human Rights Watch that Marica Stamenkovic had been nearly decapitated." "They (KLA) took the old man's pants off and threatened him with a gun. They told him that they'd rip his eyes out of their sockets. Then they took the blunt end of a knife and gave him these two black eyes. They asked him: "Whose country is this?" When my brother-in-law answered that it's for everyone, they weren't satisfied. They said it belongs to the KLA, and they forced him to say this." "He and his friends in KLA uniforms began to beat me again. Then he took his gun which was empty and said, "Kill me." I said, "I don't know how to use it." He hit me in the head. Someone [else] began beating me with a baseball bat. The KLA commander and two others and two women took me to another room. He had a pair of scissors and told me, "We're going to cut your fingers and ears off." "Killings of Serb civilians took place near the village of Gracko, in central Kosovo. Fourteen farmers were shot dead as they harvested hay in the single biggest massacre since KFOR entered the province. The farmers were reportedly shot at close range." Another set of killings took place on June 19 in the village of Belo Polje, near Pec. Visiting the village a day later, a Human Rights Watch researcher viewed the bodies of three ethnic Serb men, each of whom had been killed by a shot between the eyes at point-blank range. Serb villagers who claimed to have witnessed the attack told Human Rights Watch that ten uniformed KLA soldiers entered the village and "executed" the three men at approximately 5:30 p.m. According to the Serbian Orthodox Church in Pec, approximately thirty Serbs were killed in the Pec municipality in the months of June and July, although the circumstances of their deaths are mostly unknown. Malica Miric, twenty-six, was allegedly killed by two men, one in KLA uniform, in Belo Polje on June 26. Milena Vujsevic was allegedly killed by unknown assailants in her Pec home on June 27. There have been multiple killings of Serbs in Kosovo's capital, Pristina. On June 23, the body of Milenko Lekovic, a Serb professor for the economics faculty, was found in the faculty's basement, along with the bodies of Miodrag Mladenovic, a Serb guard in the building, and Jovica Stamenkovic, a Serb waiter from a cafe in the building. Lekovic and the other men had been shot and beaten with a blunt instrument. Human Rights Watch has also received a report about the killing of four elderly men from the village of Slivovo in Pristina municipality. Several security incidents in the town of Lipljan appear linked to efforts to force Serbs to leave. Exactly a week after the decapitation of a Serb in the town's market on July 5, there were four grenade attacks on Serb homes in Lipljan in the early afternoon, killing one person. Marko Vitosevic’s wife and one of his sons had left the house only a day before and moved to the part of Orahovac/Rahovec where Serbs lived, but he had stayed on to keep an eye on the premises. Marko’s other son, Zvezdan, who was already living in another part of town, said that witnesses told him that KLA fighters went from house to house, tying people up and escorting them out. “They crammed them into a car and drove off in an unknown direction,” Zvezdan Vitosevic said. He said he later learned from another Serb, who was seized alongside his father, that the KLA tortured them at their headquarters at the local Fire Department, then took them to the outskirts of town in the evening. The other Serb said he escaped when the KLA fighters untied his hands. While running away, he heard the fighters shooting. “He heard gunfire, but didn’t see the executions. Since then there has been no trace [of my father],” Zvezdan Vitosevic said. "Earlier, Serbs reported that a 90-year-old woman, Ljubica Vujovic, had been held down in her bathtub and drowned." “Milos Petrovic, Serb, 16 years old was shot in the head at close range by members of the KLA disguised as Italian K-FOR troops.” "An OSCE official reports that in Zupa, a 96-year-old Serb man was found bound and gagged with a gunshot wound to the head. In Kamenica, a Serb woman, 82, who had been ordered to leave her house was burnt to death in her home."

Guest

pre 5 godina

As someone who lives in the west this is fake news. Serbia has a more positive image than Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania for different reasons.

Ataman

pre 5 godina

yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did
(T, 1 March 2019 18:47)

Indeed, I was the commander of all Russian military units stationed in Racak. And, seriously, I am telling the truth.

Hope, you know the meaning of "Ø" symbol and that all properties of a zero set (and their opposite) are true.

For instance:

- The sentence like "All Martians, living on the bottom of Vezuve crater have five noses" is true.

- The sentence like "Some Martians living, on the bottom of Vezuve crater do not have five noses" is also true.

Hope you understand, why the proper symbol of the set representing Russian troops in Racak is "Ø".

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

VIEW FROM UK, the west this, the west that .... no one forced serbia to illegally consolidate political power and yugoslav military assets at the expense of the other provinces. no one forced serbia to then use those military assets to invade Slovenia Croatia, Bosnia and Kosova. your own politicians and military commanders in serbia were literally on serbian state television making open threats of violence, invasions and genocide towards the other provinces that were talking about independence. you need to step back a bit and ask yourself, what does that say about serbia if even your own Slavic kin did not want any kind of mutual union with serbia.

Zoran

pre 5 godina

Yes, we Serbs are all too familiar with fake news, coming from the west and going back to the 90s. Now it seems the whole world is catching up and even the US president calls those outlets fakes news today. LOL! It is now being used to destroy the US. Karma comes to mind.

Watcher

pre 5 godina

Maria Zakharova I know how stupid you are but I didn’t know how dumb you can be, yes in racak the massacre that Serbia and Russia did was KLA fighters I didn’t know that KLA had old woman and children under 8 years old fighting for them so stop 🛑 serbia and Russia I hope god makes them pay for genocide they did all over the Balkan’s
(T, 1 March 2019 18:47)

@ taj - You , Sir, are a Liar! The world already knows the Racak "massacre" was a set-up for outside forces to get involved!
The "International Community" was overlooking the Genocide going on in Rwanda at the same time...and you think a dozen or two dead fighting men would have made a difference in the grand scheme of things??
You're delusional!
It's OK...even if it was a set-up! It did it purpose at that time! Problem is that the truth now is making it's way to the surface...it always does!
Gone are the days when you could lie so blatantly and get away with it! The "winds of change" are here! Suck it up!

@Blue

pre 5 godina

The Western Media was Very important to NATO they Raised ant Serbian sentiment every day for long time even after the war ended and to this day they had no real reason to attack Serbia so they raise Fake News for very long time that help NATO to start War against the Serbian people. Bill Clinton sighned a Dayton agreement and soon as it was sighned he said it was worthless. and decided to occupy Kosovo with NATO The Serbians shoul start Resistance war against KFOR and the illigal Albanians who occupied Kosovo illegally.

Watcher

pre 5 godina

Trump leader of the free world says [link] fake news.
(Lenard, 1 March 2019 19:34) # Comme

@ lenardovic - fully agree! Fake news... better known as “false flags”...what’s your point?
Remember “weopans of mass destruction”...”9.11”...”Racak”...Sarajevo market shelling”...
Nothing new...these are “set-ups” in order to hype up a action plan... been happening since, like, forever!
The thing is... the truth always will surface, especially with the technology of today!
People are not so dumb anymore, they actually see this stuff now!

* and I’m also saying every government is guilty of this... including BG!
Nothing new!

Mr. Disagreeable

pre 5 godina

Hope you understand, why the proper symbol of the set representing Russian troops in Racak is "Ø". (Ataman, 2 March 2019 07:42)

I'm sorry Ataman but I must disagree with you. Your estimate was way too low.

The number of troops in Racak was equal to 987,593,329 x "Ø"

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Bob, well highlighted. The only problem is that your post only scratches the surface.
I did read about 4 or 5 years ago that since the turn of the century there had been around 2000 Serbs that had been found murdered or just missing. And the amazing thing (or maybe not so amazing) is that there had been not one arrest in connection to those murdered or missing.
These sorts of things had been going on since the 1970s with provocations, burning of property, harrassment, bullying, etc.
But of course the world ignores this, just as they ignored the cleansing of Serbs from Croatia in '95.
Its a sad world we live in where propaganda and percetion rules. Where "marketing companies" such as Ruder & Finn, Cambridge Analytica, etc distort the truth. And the saddest thing is that western governments use these corrupt companies to start illegal wats in places like Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan. They now doing it to Venezuela.

Darkly Machiever

pre 5 godina

Slow news day....yawning!
(Glow, 1 March 2019 18:56
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Go and get a job then.

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

view from uk, of course there was a war in Slovenia, it's called the ten-day war or the Slovenian independence war. it's hard to imagine that you are not aware of this known historical event that started the yugoslav wars. which really only goes to show how deluded many serbs have become on the actual events of the conflicts and now thinking themselves as the victims in a war they started. the Slovenia invasion is a very clear pattern of what serbian state did against it's neighbors during the 90's. it's amazing to think that there are still serbs attempting to hide this history and deny it at every corner.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Just to conclude on my last point I would like to say that western governments decide where to butt in and how. Mostly its got little to do with truth, justice or int. law. But everything to do with interests of the west (USA, Britain, France, etc). So many examples of this that it becomes so obvious.
The latest in focus is Venezuela. The US now supports a 35 yr old for president. Guaido is an unknown even in Venezuela. I'll bet you the US has him in their pocket and if he gets in just watch US oil companies pile in.
What is funny is that America has had sanctions on Venezuela for ages, and here they are now wanting to send aid to the people of Venezuela.? Just amazing.
So people, its all about interests (just follow the money) and nothing to do with justice, truth or rule of law.
But I'm sure Albanians, Croats and Bosnian muslims will disagree, but not tackle my specific points.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Glow, the first country that has to recognise and come to terms with its past is Croatia. In WW2 the nazi Croat state murdered 1 million (give or take) Serbs, Jews and Roma. That country has never apologised or even shown regret at what it did. Even today many Croats deny it ever happened. Read again Glow...1 million people. And NEVER have you condemned this murder. Why? In '95 the Croats again went to action and cleansed up to 300K Serbs. You, like the west, ignore this.
So dont come on this forum talking about Serb crimes when the biggest crimes were committed against Serbs. Why dont you condemn crimes against Serbs?

sj

pre 5 godina

(Glow, 2 March 2019 23:38)
The first casualty of war is the truth and if you can make your enemy look really bad then your well on the way to getting outside sympathy.
Racak did happened but it was your Albos with William Walker CIA operative that killed those people to make the Serbs look bad – it’s what started the bombing. The Sarajevo market massacre is well documented in the UN. UN investigators concluded that the mortar shells could not have come from Serb positions but from inside Sarajevo, but that report was conveniently buried by the US to levy the harshest sanction in world history on Serbia; another set up.
Now my favourite myth is Srebrenica. The Serbs have suggested many times to hold an independent investigation with prominent experts from outside BiH but alas the Bosniaks refuse. Why? Because the genocide myth is pure BS since all old men, boys women and small children were bused out of Srebrenica.
Croats are whingers hoping their lack of military prowess will be covered by Vukovar. Ask the Bosniaks what their allies the Croats did to them during the 1990s.
Germany ran concentration camps gassing anyone who was against Hitler’s authority, Roma, Communists, Jews and homosexuals. They have plenty to admit to. Serbs did nothing of the kind.
Sweetie your lot are not angels so when are they going to take responsibility?

Albert

pre 5 godina

There was a report made by the (now defunct) Swedish Board of Psychological Defence about the role of the media in the Kosovo war. This is in Swedish, but you can translate it to english with online tools. https://www.msb.se/Upload/Produkter_tjanster/Publikationer/SPF/Kampen%20om%20det%20kommunikativa%20rummet.pdf
TLDR: Only the views of NATO were presented by the media to the Swedish audience and that played a big role in how the people in Sweden perceived the war. The Serbian side of the story did not reach the Swedish audience at all. The agency calls it "the battle for the communicative room" and that Serbia lost it.

Joseph

pre 5 godina

Who can one trust?
only the bible. A great blessing.

WMD
Jeremiah ch. 50&51. esp. 51:26 and 62. Jehovah states Babylon shall never b rebuilt. But sadam started to rebuild it. The overthrow was by Jehovah! Isaiah 19 states Assyria (north Iraq) will become Jehovah's people .

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

I did send another post but either got lost or not published.
Zakharova is correct about western media. I recall that in '95 there was nothing in the British media about Croatia cleansing up to 300K Serbs. Vast majority of Brits have no idea this even happened. Why is that? Yet the bread queue massacre was on every media outlet. But when it was proved it was the Bosnian muslims who planted the bombs to kill their own it was not reported.
There are many examples where things were blamed on Serbs and well publicised but never the other way. Even Milosevic's exoneration by the Hague is little known, so people here still think he was found guilty.
The media here is also anti Putin. For example they often talk of Putins "anti gay laws". But its not illegal to be gay in Russia. But in over 70 countries it is against the law. Some even execute gay people, such as our ally S Arabia...
Yes, the media plays a big part in the west and pushes the governments agenda. They demonise a person or nation and softens up the public for when invasion comes. Disgrace.

sj

pre 5 godina

(Glow, 4 March 2019 19:08)
Sweetie first I graduated from excellent universities not from any clown colleges in Pristina and Tirana.
I have forgotten more about what occurred in the former Yugoslvaia in the 1990s than you will ever know on the subject.
No, the entire world is not against Serbia and no one ever said that. Its just the western countries, led by the US, which by the way, is now involved in another spectacularly failure called Venezuela LOL. The US wanted the breakup of Yugoslavia but stepped on a pebble called Serbs and they are now stuck. They have done everything to get the Serbs to like them even make Albos look like low life over the taxes; sent an Ambassador who speaks Serbian, but no luck. But they sent you someone to Pristina who barely can speak English and you guys grovel.
No sweetie the Hague is not a Court but a Tribunal – read up on the difference. And no, the EU or your beloved US have no interest in the Hague.
The Serbs have repeated ad nauseum to the EU they will not recognise Kosovo, they will not join in sanctions against Russia and no more Hague; and if they don’t like that Brussels should stop the talks with Belgrade to join the EU. Chapter after chapter continues. I am against Serbia joining any way and any help from you would be most appreciated.
The only reason no more in the EU for now, the EU economies have been faltering since 2008 and money is a problem to meet financial obligations to new members. That’s all.

sj

pre 5 godina

(Dardania'Alb, 4 March 2019 19:03)

Your really terrible at this. Just like your pathetic effort to prove Albos were in the Balkans since the dawn of time, your comments here are even worse. What a stupid concoction of comments. Adding 2 plus 2 and getting 92. Why don’t your Albos from Montenegro, Kosovo or Greece join with Albania?
Serbia never invaded Slovenia and Kosovo is part of Serbia bum dumb. Go back and try and prove Albos came from Atlantis.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania...such a simplistic view. Firstly there was no war in Slovenia, so please dont write trash. Secondly, Serbia never invaded Bosnia. That was a 3 sided civil war. Serbs & Croats didnt want to live in a muslim/islamic dominated nation. Remember that Milosevic was not guilty of anything (according to The Hague, who were desperate to find him guilty). In Croatia I think it was well known what Croats planned for Serbs. Considering what happened in WW2, would you not worry? And guess what up to 300k Serbs cleansed for ever. And what did the west do about this dreadful act..? Yep, nothing. As for Kosovo its known that the Albos had been planning for decades to rip Kosovo from Serbia (a sovereign country with clear & accepted borders). Lobbying and a lot of cash went to US politicians (such as Bob Dole) and set ups like Racak convinced the west to illegaly attack Serbia (no UN resolutions).
Say what you like but Serbia has been blamed for everything, while other crimes by Croats, Bosnians and Albos ignored. Its shameful and a disgrace.

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania, stop trying to rewrite history. War in Slovenia?? As far as I recall a number of JNA bases were attacked/threatened by Slovenian extremists. I recall young soldiers being dragged out of a tank by Slovenians.
How many were killed in this "war" in Slovenia? How many battles took place? Can you name any place where battles were in Slovenia? I've seen more violence in a British city centre on a friday night after a lot of drinking. So please no false stories.
Serbia did not send any troops to Bosnia, it was a 3 sided conflict between the people who lived there. If Serbia is guilty of anything in Bosnia then Croatia is just as guilty. Remember Milosevic was found not guilty in the Hague (as much as you want him to be guilty).
And if I was a Serb in Croatia in the '90s I would have been worried. Thats when you consider what Croats did to Serbs in the 1940s. And the plan went well for Croats by cleansing up to 300k Serbs for ever. Can you condemn the crimes against Serbs in the 1940s and '95 in Croatia? Not one Albanian condemns these acts, why is that?

VIEW FROM UK

pre 5 godina

Dardania, to continue. As I said in previous post the Serbs have been blamed for everything. Many now in jails, rightly so. But can you explain how nobody held responsible for cleansing 300k Serbs from Croaria? Did you miss that? Why do no Albos condemn the market place massacre which the Bosnians conducted to blame Serbs (proved). Why no Albos condemn the murder of up to 4000 Serb men, women and children around Srebrenica by Oric? Mladic as an act of revenged did what he did and rightly jailed.
I would take you seriously and like to debate, but not one Albanian has condemned crimes against Serbs. You just ignore it. Why is that? Are you quietly pleased that Serbs cleansed out of Croatia (which the Croat state celebrates..!? Amazing, eh?)

Dardania'Alb

pre 5 godina

view from uk, in fact, there were 2 separate massacres at markale. and Radovan Karadzic was found guilty using the same argument you are making for the markale massacre(s). the ICTY Trial Chamber concluded that both attacks were committed by Serb forces around Sarajevo.