Kosovo separatists are hysterical over the discovery of non-existent archives of Albanian militants
“Deputy Prime Minister” of Kosovo Besnik Bislimi said that in Brussels the Kosovo and Serbian sides announced the mutual opening of the archives of the security forces of Yugoslavia and the Albanian separatists who opposed each other in the 90s.
This statement provoked negative emotions towards former Kosovo Liberation Army ( UCK ) fighters and local Albanian patriots.
As reported by PolitNavigator, Bislimi announced the day before that the Kosovar and Serbian sides had agreed to open archives, including those of the UCK . However, in the province itself, only representatives of the ruling Self-Determination party supported this decision.
“Such a commitment will seriously damage Kosovo and the memory of the liberation war, because they agreed to equate the aggressor with the victim, which is unfair and terrible,” said the former “prime minister” of the region, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa. “If there are archives that Bislimi spoke about, then they are from Serbia, which was a state and carried out wars and massacres in accordance with state policy.”
“I think this is an amateurish mistake, in this case by Deputy Prime Minister Bislimi, for at least two reasons,” said Ehat Miftaraj, executive director of the Kosovo Law Institute. – Firstly, the archives of Serbia, which it wanted to open, were sent to the Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, while the rest of the archives that this state had, it either destroyed, or I doubt that they have the desire to open and allow access by Kosovo or any other party to them in order to clarify the fate of the missing.
Secondly, the UCK never had an archive that could be made available to Serbia. Ultimately, we can say that this is a stab in the back of all those currently detained in The Hague and those who could be indicted and used as a weapon by the prosecutor in court against them. We all know that the UCK was not an organization with a command structure throughout Kosovo. Bislimi distorts the truth by conveying the message to the public or the Serbian side that Kosovo has an archive and that the Kosovo Liberation Army archived everything that happened during the war.
At the same time, the Serbian public in Kosovo also believes that, under the guise of “archives,” Pristina will “discover” some meaningless and inconclusive documents that will not shed light on the crimes of the militants, but will confirm the world community in the just nature of their “liberation struggle.” .
"The crimes committed against Serbs in Kosovo are a taboo and controversial topic. Kosovo's political elites and current participants in the Kosovo political scene, especially former ones, were directly involved in the second breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and they built their position on a narrative of exclusive Serbian guilt and the heroic struggle of the UCK and Albanians. The missing Serbs don't fit into the narrative that was carefully constructed after the 1999 war. KFOR (the NATO occupation mission – ed.) has an archive. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported receiving these archives. Has anyone looked at these archives?
Has anyone looked at these documents? Experience suggests that everyone wants this to be forgotten, especially since the main suspects are being tried in a special court. It’s understandable why they don’t open the archives, because they contain direct evidence against those suspected of crimes,” historian and analyst Aleksandar Gudzic commented on the situation to Radio Kosovo and Metohija.
English version :: Read in English Kosovar separatists are hysterical over the discovery of non-existent archives of Albanian militants.