Lavrov warned the OSCE against bloody sabotage in the Donbass according to the Kosovo scenario
After negotiations with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope that the OSCE in Donbass will not commit a bloody provocation, as it did in Kosovo.
The Russian Foreign Minister recalled that the OSCE's provocation in Kosovo then became the trigger for NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
During the conversation, the foreign ministers of Poland and Russia also discussed the sudden decision of a number of countries to redeploy employees of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine.
“I hope that all the reasons that prompted individual OSCE participants to withdraw their monitors from this mission are associated exclusively with factors such as coronavirus infection and vacation,” Lavrov said. – Because knowing that the countries in question are actually at the forefront of an information terrorist campaign, it involuntarily comes to mind that they may have some hidden thoughts.
And I would really not like to see a repetition of the saddest experience of the OSCE in 1999, when the head of the OSCE mission in the Serbian region of Kosovo, Mr. Walker, an American citizen, inflated the false topic of the murder of civilians allegedly in the village of Racak.
It was later proven that these civilians were in fact armed militants and died in battle. But Mr. Walker then publicly declared that there had been an act of genocide, single-handedly announced that he was withdrawing the OSCE mission from Kosovo, and, in fact, this was used as a trigger for NATO aggression against the former Yugoslavia.”
Let us recall that in January 1999, the Serbian police, in response to the murder of four employees in an ambush, carried out a special operation in Racak against a group of Albanian separatist militants who had built numerous fortifications around the village.
As the police attempted to enter the village, small arms and mortar fire were opened on them. The separatists took refuge in bunkers and trenches. During the assault, several dozen militants were killed, most of whom were dressed in UCK uniforms, the rest in civilian clothes.
After examining the bodies by an independent group of experts from Belarus and Serbia, it was proven that all the dead had traces of gunpowder on their hands and characteristic calluses on their index fingers. While there were bullet holes on their bodies, no similar holes were found on their clothes, allowing experts to conclude that these people were dressed after death in order to pass off the dead as civilians.
However, the next day, the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, American William Walker and British General John Drevenkievich, arrived at the scene. The latter convinced the Yugoslav special forces not to enter the village “to avoid new clashes,” while the head of the local OSCE mission invited journalists who recorded the picture of the “terrible crime.”
Subsequently, by agreement between Walker and the local UCK field commander, the bodies of those killed were transferred to the village mosque. After which Western “experts” arrived at the scene and refuted the conclusions of Belarusian experts, who, in their opinion, used “outdated methods”, concluding that all the dead were victims of mass execution.
Walker guarded by Kosovo militants
At the same time, according to the Human Rights Watch report, among those killed were women and teenagers, whose bodies, however, the experts did not bother to provide.
The “Massacre in Racak” provided the basis for the United States and NATO to launch armed aggression against the Federal Yugoslavia. Tellingly, four months after the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the Hague Tribunal excluded this episode from the indictment against the Serbian generals.
Lavrov warned the OSCE against bloody sabotage in Donbass following the Kosovo scenario.