Former British officer: KFOR could do more to transform KPC into KSF

Clewlow in an interview with journalist Rina Mujku, says that before coming and serving in Kosovo, you were aware of our history, Klan Kosova reports.

Clewlow also told about the transformation of KPC into KSF.

The resolution was not mine, the decision whether or not the transformation should take place overnight, so the KPC was dissolved at midnight and immediately gave birth to the KSF was one of the possibilities and the other was a slow dissolution of the KPC and the formation of the most remote KSF until June 2009, when it was the last term of the KPC's decomposition <x1.

But it took a month or so... and it was decided that the KPC would be dissolved overnight and that one minute after the KSF was born, and that delay caused a lot of problems for a process that was already extremely complicated”.

Clewlow among other things says KFOR could be more active in this process, but that did not happen.

The KFOR mission in Kosovo from the start to that stage was to ensure a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement. In 2008, KFOR had 16 thousand troops in Kosovo, and although it now has fewer members of its mission continue to be the same, and the KPC crash plan and the formation of KSF was a mission KFOR was imposed on the side of NATO's main headquarters, and I think this was a distraction to command at that time”.

And I don't believe that they wanted to succeed, and if you could read it, there were some cases when I felt KFOR could be more active in the process, because the KPC's transformation into KSF was connected and they didn't make each other. They could do more, but for some reason they didn't do”, Clewlow said.

So the Kosovo Protection Corps crash plan was written by the Kosovo Protection Corps itself. This would not have been imagined in 1999 when KPC was created”.

Clewlow among other things indicated even though some KPC troops did not join the KSF.

The “was clear that KFOR had the capacity to create a communication strategy and clarify what was going on with the KPC and with the whole process, but since KFOR chose not to be as active and clarifying the process was flawed and troops within the KPC wanted to know what would happen to pensions and their future if they failed to become part of the KSF. These issues for many people inside the KPC were sensitive and they felt that they were not offered many opportunities unless they were selected to be part of KSF”.

Who did the biggest job for the Kosovo Security Force to be created according to Clewlow?

The Kosovo Security Force would only succeed because of the people inside it, and because of its leaders. I think there was a great purpose to achieve success and purpose to break away from the past. And those who were in the KSF knew it would be difficult but with the goal they had, I think one or two people in the KSF as General Enver Cicqi and General Rama, but the others were very determined to succeed”, Clewlow said.