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there was ethic cleansing, no doubt about it... but you tell me who cleansed whom...
"When Tito's communists came to power in 1945, they adopted an odd attitude to the Kosovo problem. It is now well known that Tito had designs on Albania and he kept close contacts with the Albanian rulers. This was the reason why thousands of Serbian families, which had been expelled during World War II were prevented from returning to their ancestral homes, whereas the immigration of Albanians from Albania was tolerated and tacitly approved. At the same time the Yugoslav federal government treated Kosovo as an area in need of vast subsidies and financial help. It was well known that for years all single employed citizens of Yugoslavia, even pensioners, had two per cent of their pay deducted to finance the investment in Kosovo. (This caused a lot of discontent, specially in Croatia and Slovenia and had a bearing on recent events in Yugoslavia.)
The inbalance of the respective nationalities in Kosovo was further increased by huge demographic growth among the Albanian population. In 1961 the census recorded that the Albanians already constituted 67.1 per cent of the overall population of Kosovo, whereas the 1971 census showed a figure 73.7 per cent. In 1981 this percentage grew to 77.48 per cent. There was a distinct impression that the communist authorities approved of this trend for their own reasons.
The explanation for this growth in percentages was not only the demographic explosion of the Albanian population, but also a steady pressure by the Albanians to get rid of as many Serbs as possible. This was facilitated by the new Yugoslav constitution of 1974 which gave the autonomous provinces of Yugoslav, of which Kosovo was one, virtually the status of federal republics, with their own parliaments, laws, police, education, etc. There is no doubt that the Albanian provincial authorities abused their new powers and compelled a large number of Serbs to leave Kosovo through threats, blackmail, arson, physical harassment, destruction of Serbian graveyards and cultural monuments, rape, etc. A favourite method was to make an offer for purchase of Serbs' land or their homes which they "could not refusè ie if they did refuse, they would regret it!
The Albanian separatists were the first in Yugoslavia to resort to the policy of "ethnic cleansing", with the aim of achieving "ethnically pure Kosovo" and the status of a Federal Republic, with the right to secession. These events were hardly reported in the politically controlled press of communist Yugoslavia, and the authority in the "autonomous provincè of Kosovo, which was Albanian, suppressed any publicity of these events. The only real protest came from some bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in a well documented memorandum in 1988, describing in a factual way the repression of the Serbs in Kosovo."
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmfaff/28/28ap42.htm
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