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For years I keep saying that we should not be naοve and believe that in a civil war like the one that happened in the former Yugoslavia there are good guys and bad guys, since the truth is that there were a lot of times I felt very lonely or that due to my origins I was blamed to support only one side.
 Having seen a civil war and the results of a civil war I believe that the blame game should be the last one to play, that the process of healing is far more important and that it is including forget and forgive. However this is where the international community failed in Yugoslavia and forgetting that all the western powers share the responsibility of this civil war, including Germany, the US administration, EU and NATO - the above are not the only ones but they definitely played the dirtiest part, but this is for another time and history - forgetting that in Yugoslavia there was not a clash of religions despite the fact that Turkey and Albania, for their own Balkan interests has tried to show; and apart from all burning hates between Serbians, Bosnians and Albanians the truth is that they all share equally the guilt for what happened and if international justice wants to be fair instead of going constantly after Serbia should check a bit more carefully what the rest did.
It is equally sad that the person who started all this crusade against Serbia was the very same person who brought to light the sins of the others with more horrific the ones made from the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Oddly when she was prosecuting a whole nation she had the whole Europe following her angry just because Milosevic died before convicted.
The former UN war crimes prosecutor, in a book published a few weeks ago, claims that the ethnic Albanians killed hundreds of Serbians in Kosovo to sell their organs. What can you call that? A crime against humanity? I have asked a question before and I feel that this is the right place to ask again, how do we define a genocide? Is it after killing a million, ten millions, ten thousands, ten hundreds of just ten people? Is a special scale which defines what makes one more genocide or crime against humanity than the other?
What the Albanians did in Kosovo should be treated as crime against humanity because they treated Serbians not as humans, they treated them worst than animals, products they could actually profit from, apparently they might have been nicer to their animals. Mrs Del Ponte is not the everyday person, and whatever she says has a lot of proven truth inside it; if not then the whole UN war crimes court has mistaken in every single case including the ones against Milosevic and I doubt if there is anybody who will dare say so. Mrs Del Ponte wasn't exactly friendly with the Serbian government and the Serbian people often blaming them for the escaping Serbian criminals and punishing them by excluding from the union they have every right to belong. Actually Serbia is not allowed to join EU or NATO or any other international organization before the war criminals are arrested. So what is going to be the international reaction to Kosovo?
Kosovo has declared independence ignoring any reaction from Serbia and the reaction of the Serbians who live in Kosovo, actually the Serbians who dare still live in a country where they have been slaughtered. George W. Bush and his administration were all jolly to recognise straight away Kosovo and they are using every method to force the Europeans partners to join them in this party. How all of them are going to react now these things coming into light? They gave immunity, protection and support to some of the very same people Del Ponte named as the minds behind the crimes and they enjoy parliamentary and governmental positions in Kosovo.
In a civil war there are heroes, nationals who fight for the right of people in freedom and dignity but there are the others, the opportunist who see a civil war as a good chance to profit in many ways and that is something we have often seen. Instead as I said before leaving these people to heal, forget and forgive; apply justice, their own justice we were too kin into provoking a new problem with the name of independent Kosovo and all that while Serbia was in so bad condition that couldn't defend even the Serbians who live in Kosovo. Now the international community is in front a new situation where the victim has been proven the worst victimizer, a cannibal of fellow humans. Is this how Kosovo people want to create a new country? And id the international community prepared to accept the responsibility of a new country based on cannibalism?
Last and not least, because I strongly believe that the US administration, the German, the French, the British government were well aware of all these crimes but especially the US administration why all this rash to recognize Kosovo? Is something we don't know going on in that area? Does the fact that the biggest American base in European solid is around there, constructed and held from companies where Donald Rumsfeld the former US defence minister and Dick Cheney the US Vice-president have special interests? Perhaps that will explain their interest for FYROM as well. Or as I wrote three years ago in an article for Ovi magazine the war between USA and Europe has started and energy is the main issue with the natural gas spouts been the first front? Will that explain the Russians interest in the Balkans as well? As an Ovi magazine colleague often comments ...;that is food for thought!
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