{"id":590,"date":"2004-03-18T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T23:41:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-18T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T23:41:34","slug":"pogrom-not-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/18\/pogrom-not-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogrom, not “clashes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media reports coming from Kosovo uniformly refer to what is going on as “inter-ethnic violence” or “clashes.” That is nothing but a transparent attempt to spin the situation and pin the blame anywhere but on the real culprits: Albanian mobs, organized and instigated by the KLA.
\nSince June 1999, Kosovo has not seen “clashes” or even “fighting,” but a systematic, one-sided persecution of Serbs, Turks, Roma, Goranci and generally all non-Albanians by the KLA-dominated Albanian regime, operating under UN\/NATO protection. You need two sides for a fight of any kind; everything else is just a massacre. And ever since June 1999, there’s only been one side with the ability to do so – the KLA.
\nWhat is currently happening in the occupied province is a coordinated, premeditated pogrom.<\/p>\n

One UN administrator who was evacuated from the rampaging mobs in Gnjilane (U.S. occupation sector!) called yesterday’s rampage “Kristallnacht”<\/a> – a reference to the Nazis’ night of destruction aimed at Germany’s Jews. Would the agencies have called that “inter-ethnic violence” or “clashes”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media reports coming from Kosovo uniformly refer to what is going on as “inter-ethnic violence” or “clashes.” That is nothing but a transparent attempt to spin the situation and pin the blame anywhere but on the real culprits: Albanian mobs, organized and instigated by the KLA. Since June 1999, Kosovo has not seen “clashes” or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}