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Yes, any ethnic conflict has typically been brewing for thousands of years. Particularly one in the Balkans. Therefore claims that "it all started with" somethi

Yes, any ethnic conflict has typically been brewing for thousands of years. Particularly one in the Balkans. Therefore claims that "it all started with" something in 1999 is disingenuous. I see this as an attempt to justify or belittle the organized ethnically/religiously motivated murders of Muslim men in Kosovo, and then when that was stopped by Western nations, somehow being responsible for starting the radicalization of the said Muslim population. As said, a larger responsibility lies with the salafists. THe parent comment looks like classic, cheap propaganda to me -- complete with mostly fabricated organ harvesting accusations, similar to the ones often made against Israel. Regarding that "roughly 1,000 missing Serb civilians that were taken by albanian rebels/terrorists and used for organ transplants", the Wikipedia article referred actually says: > In July 2014, Clint Williamson, the lead prosecutor with the task force, told a press conference in Brussels that unnamed “senior officials of the former Kosovo Liberation Army” will face indictments for crimes against humanity and other abuses. He said there were “compelling indications” that “a few individuals were killed with the intention of extracting their organs” by KLA fighters, but the allegations that hundreds of prisoners were killed and their organs sold was “totally unsupported”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo

dragandj 10y ago
The civilians are still missing after 17+ years. They were adopted by the terrorists. Whether it can be proven (by whom?) that they ended in that particular yellow house or not is of less importance.
dragandj 10y ago
Of course, you failed to mention, or didn't know, that only 50 years before the conflict, the ethnic structure was: 1953: 65% Albanians vs 23% Serbs In the eve of the 1999 bombing, it was: 1991: 82% Albanians vs 10% Serbs And after the bombing and separation: 2011: 93% Albanians vs 1.5% Serbs So, Albanians jumped from 65% to 93% and Serbs virtually disappeared from 23% to 1.5% in just 60 years. So, can you tell me - how's that explained? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kosovo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kosovo
- ptaipale 10y ago
  Again, quite obviously, what happened between 1953 and 1991 cannot be something that "all started with" bombings in 1999. None of this is a good explanation for why Muslims are currently being lured by extremist preachers with Middle Eastern funding.
- ddorian43 10y ago
  Many Kosovars moved to Albania to escape the war by Serbia. Did the same thing happened with Serbians living in Kosovo?
  - ptaipale 10y ago
    Definitely. And it did not start from the 1990's Balkans war, it's older than that. http://www.transconflict.com/2013/05/reasons-and-causes-of-serbian-migration-from-kosovo-03/ http://www.transconflict.com/2013/05/reasons-and-causes-of-s... The idea that Serbian emigration from Kosovo was a problem was brought out for the first time by Dobrica Ćosić in 1968, but this was censored by the Communist authorities. In the early 1970s, a number of Kosovo Serb officials raised the issue in Kosovo’s party organs of the province’s growing Albanization and the problems this posed for the non-Albanian population.
- HowardMei 10y ago
  Birth rate gap? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Serbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Serbia It happens everywhere that Islamic ethnic groups replace others with population explosion.
  - ptaipale 10y ago
    Birth rates may be somewhat different, but I don't that's so significant. In the case of former Yugoslavian states, what has happened is that ethnic groups, which formerly used to live in mixed areas, have moved away and concentrated each on their own area. Serbs have moved to Serbia, Croats to Croatia, Muslims have moved out of these. This was result of a mix of fear, actual violent ethnic cleansing by extremists, but also within each population, just a desire to live within one's own ethnic and religious enclave.

dragandj 10y ago

The civilians are still missing after 17+ years. They were adopted by the terrorists. Whether it can be proven (by whom?) that they ended in that particular yellow house or not is of less importance.

dragandj 10y ago

Of course, you failed to mention, or didn't know, that only 50 years before the conflict, the ethnic structure was: 1953: 65% Albanians vs 23% Serbs In the eve of the 1999 bombing, it was: 1991: 82% Albanians vs 10% Serbs And after the bombing and separation: 2011: 93% Albanians vs 1.5% Serbs So, Albanians jumped from 65% to 93% and Serbs virtually disappeared from 23% to 1.5% in just 60 years. So, can you tell me - how's that explained? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kosovo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Kosovo

ptaipale 10y ago
Again, quite obviously, what happened between 1953 and 1991 cannot be something that "all started with" bombings in 1999. None of this is a good explanation for why Muslims are currently being lured by extremist preachers with Middle Eastern funding.
ddorian43 10y ago
Many Kosovars moved to Albania to escape the war by Serbia. Did the same thing happened with Serbians living in Kosovo?
- ptaipale 10y ago
  Definitely. And it did not start from the 1990's Balkans war, it's older than that. http://www.transconflict.com/2013/05/reasons-and-causes-of-serbian-migration-from-kosovo-03/ http://www.transconflict.com/2013/05/reasons-and-causes-of-s... The idea that Serbian emigration from Kosovo was a problem was brought out for the first time by Dobrica Ćosić in 1968, but this was censored by the Communist authorities. In the early 1970s, a number of Kosovo Serb officials raised the issue in Kosovo’s party organs of the province’s growing Albanization and the problems this posed for the non-Albanian population.
HowardMei 10y ago
Birth rate gap? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Serbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Serbia It happens everywhere that Islamic ethnic groups replace others with population explosion.
- ptaipale 10y ago
  Birth rates may be somewhat different, but I don't that's so significant. In the case of former Yugoslavian states, what has happened is that ethnic groups, which formerly used to live in mixed areas, have moved away and concentrated each on their own area. Serbs have moved to Serbia, Croats to Croatia, Muslims have moved out of these. This was result of a mix of fear, actual violent ethnic cleansing by extremists, but also within each population, just a desire to live within one's own ethnic and religious enclave.