| "It will put an end to hundreds of years of Ottoman, Yugoslavian and Serbian rule, which saw oppression and ethnic cleansing in the region." In WWII Hitler promised the Albanians Kosovo, and northen Macedonia, while promising the Croats most of Serbia. The Albanian "Skenderbeg" units were only matched in their cruelty by their Croatian counterparts the Ustasa. Serbs were the clear majority in Kosovo until the late `50s, after which Yugoslav leader Tito encouraged resettlement of impoverished Albanians from other regions of Yugoslavia and thousands of economic and political refugees from Stalinist Albania. Meanwhile Serbian `ethnic cleansing` could not have been very successful when the 9 out of 10 Kosovars have been Albanians for the last 30 years, including during the 1999 conflict. Lest we conveniently forget. |
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