Autumn in no mans land

Описание: One of the research team recently found an old hard drive which contained a documentary from 2004 by Ninoslav Randjelovic entitled “Autumn in No-Man’s Land”. It is a powerful description of the awful events in March 2004 which are accurately described as a pogrom: widespread attacks by Albanian thugs against the remaining Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija who were supposedly under the protection of NATO troops that had been deployed under UN resolution 1244 in 1999. As well as attacks on people religious sites were the focus of this despicable and seemingly endless hatred.

Over twenty years later Ninoslav Randjelovic is faithfully recording the continuing acts of senseless violence which persist in the face of complete indifference on the part of the Western media and the EU authorities who call for Serbia to recognise the legitimacy of an illegal state separated from Serbia by NATO force and dishonest diplomacy. Please visit his YouTube channel for up-to-date videos: Ninoslav Randjelovic’s YouTube Channel

Background

Kosovo and Metohija is a province of Serbia with an Albanian majority which in the late 1990s had seen increasingly violent acts perpetrated by an Albanian paramilitary group known in the West as the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) or UÇK in Albanian. NATO countries had encouraged these violent separatists, supplying arms and military training, whilst condemning the Serbian authorities when countermeasures were taken.

This culminated in a one-sided peace conference in Rambouillet, France where US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, a NeoCon hawk, presented Serbia with an ultimatum: either allow NATO to oversee Kosovo and Metohija becoming independent while having unlimited access to the whole of Serbia or face bombing. Unsurprisingly Serbia could not submit to such a craven loss of sovereignty and NATO commenced a massive and escalating bombing campaign on March 24th 1999, lasting 78 days and including civilian targets throughout Serbia, not just in Kosovo and Metohija. The fact that no UN resolution had been issued meant that this was an illegal aggression which has subsequently been cited by many as the beginning of the breakdown in relations between the West and non-Western countries, especially Russia.

In June 1999, following encouragement from Russian Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin , the Serbian authorities agreed to the terms of UN resolution 1244 which recognised Kosovo and Metohija as an integral part of Serbia but required Serbian security forces to withdraw from the province to be replaced by a UN peacekeeping force headed by NATO. As Serbian forces withdrew the KLA immediately started a campaign of intimidation and violence against Serbs, Roma and any other non-Albanian residents which the NATO forces were either unable or unwilling to suppress. This resulted in an exodus of many Serbs either to other parts of Serbia or to northern Kosovo where the majority of Serb settlements were located. Watch Michel Collon’s excellent documentary. Whereas the plight of Kosovo Albanians had been widely publicised by Western media the murderous violence directed against the Kosovo Serbs by Albanians was not reported.