You have absolutely much reason to be proud and satisfied, bulldzr, congratulations to you and to your nephews for your involvement. I'm sorry to hear of the one nephew's Desert Storm-likely problems.
To sorta wrap it up for now, i guess, as always, of course, in war there are shady/bad characters on both sides, with crimes committed by both sides, so for me it was really good to see this one.
Kosovo War Crimes Court to Be Based in The Hague
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJAN. 15, 2016, 11:09 A.M. E.S.T.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A special court is being set up in The Hague to prosecute crimes committed by ethnic Albanian rebels during and in the immediate aftermath of Kosovo's war for independence.
The Dutch government announced Friday that the European Union-funded court will "try serious crimes allegedly committed in 1999-2000 by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army against ethnic minorities and political opponents."
Putting KLA members on trial is a sensitive issue in Kosovo, where they are considered by many to be freedom fighters.
The court is expected to start work later this year in the former headquarters of EU police organization Europol. International judges will apply Kosovo law in the court.
Some 10,000 people died and 1,700 went missing during the 1998-1999 war as Kosovo fought to break away from Serbia.
And unintended, i hope, consequences. A couple reminders on the KLA i picked up this morning.
Peter Klebnikov on Mother Jones, early 2000.
Heroin Heroes The United States propped up the KLA in the Kosovo conflict. With Milosevic gone, and no one in control, the former freedom fighters are now transforming the province into a major conduit for global drug trafficking. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/01/heroin-heroes
Justin Raimondo on Antiwar.com in an article Wars to Watch Out For Nov. 2007, also mentioned the KLA heroin connection .. bit ..
Kosovo – again!: The irony of this is all too apparent to longtime readers of Antiwar.com. Virtually alone among opponents of imperialism in the U.S., we opposed the American "liberation" of Kosovo and considered U.S. support for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – a gang of drug-smuggling thugs whose control of the European heroin trade subsidized their terrorist activities against the people of Kosovo and neighboring countries – to be a war crime. As it turned out, it was the Clintonian precursor to the American sponsorship of Iraqi exile groups, such as Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress, whose ersatz "intelligence" helped lie the American people into war. It is only fitting that this hotspot should get hotter even as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claims Kosovo as a model for what we ought to have done in Iraq.
The problem in Kosovo is that the "liberation" led to a reign of terror by the KLA, which burned Serbian Orthodox churches, terrorized the remnants of Serbian communities, and demanded immediate independence. On this latter demand, they managed to be contained by their NATO and U.S. allies, but that pot is about to boil over as Hashim Thaci, KLA militant and candidate of the grievously misnamed "Democratic Party," takes the presidency. Ever since the "liberation," the KLA was kept out of power by the prestige of Kosovar leader Ibrahim Rugova and his Democratic League of Kosovo, but Rugova's death from cancer in 2006 paved the way for the thuggish Thaci to seize power – and he has. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=25907138
It has been an instructive and enjoyable chat, bulldzr .. thanks .. :)
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