[syndicate] War comes back to Kosovo?

[Andrej Tisma]

Ivo, why don't you quote the source (Kurir) you have put below, but instead
you write your own comment? Or you made an omission by putting the wrong
link?

> http://www.kurir-info.co.yu/Dnevne-vesti/V-14-26052004.htm
>
> Hari Holkeri, the UN proconsul of Kosovo, resigned yesterday. His
> mandate was up in August, but he decided to cut it short at the
> advice of his physician. He is to be replaced by Dick Spring, an
> Irish Labour politician.
>
> Analysts read more than health reasons into Holkeri's resignation: a
> couple of days ago new Hague tribunal indictments arrived to Kosovo -
> one against Hasim Taci, another against Ramus Haradinaj, and another
> two against two other high level commanders of what used to be KLA.
>
> Holkeri warned for some time that such indictments may incite inter-
> ethnic violence in Kosovo. Kosovo Albanians demonstrated in March
> this year that they are capable of ethnic cleansing and burning
> religious objects, just as their former tormentors, the Serbs, were.
>
> And as every ethnic group in the region treats its war crime suspects
> as national heroes, they are unlikely to give up Taci and Haradinaj
> without a fight. NATO commanders are worried that they will not be
> able to protect UNMIK officials and their own forces in Kosovo, if
> the indictments are made public. Serbian minority, of course, would
> probably face imminent expulsion or worse. Holkeri decided that his
> frail health could not take that any more.
>
> As the largest European US military base (Bondsteel) is in Kosovo,
> one can speculate that sudden move by the ICTY to indict KLA leaders,
> may indeed be timed to make US forces fight on one front more. The
> Hague and Bush administration never got along well. And this move
> will incite violence, and will require more US military commitment in
> Kosovo, making it harder for Bush to fight his wars elsewhere, which
> may contribute to his political defeat in November - something that
> continental Europe, that stands behind the Hague, would cherish.
>
> ivo
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> Ivo Skoric
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> ivo at balkansnet.org
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