10 minutes agoWesley Clark relates what he had talked to Milosevic before the bombings began
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Former High Commander of NATO, Wesley Clark, who led NATO's bombing campaign against Serbian forces in 1999, was declared two years ago that the bombings prevented ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and NATO had no other solution. He said efforts to avoid war in Kosovo were made early [...]
Former High Commander of NATO, Wesley Clark, who led NATO's bombing campaign against Serbian forces in 1999, was declared two years ago that the bombings prevented ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and NATO had no other solution.
He said efforts to avoid war in Kosovo had been made since the early 1990s, when the West became aware of the serious situation in Kosovo. Then President George H. Bush warned Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic that he would face serious consequences from the United States if he begins ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians in what was called Christmas warning in December 1992.
General Clark described the serious situation in Kosovo and numerous human rights violations by Serbian authorities. He recalled the attack on the Jashari family in the village of Prekaz in the Skyright municipality in central Kosovo in early 1998, where 54 family members were killed who marked the start of the armed war.
“NATO issued a warning at the ministers' meeting in May and then I took office to prepare plans in May 1998. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke went to June and met with Slobodan Milosevic and phoned me and told him, please don't do this to Albanians. He told me, General Clark, they are my people and he won't hurt them. But, of course, that was a lie because ethnic cleansing was already happening”, Clark said about the Voice of America in the years ago.
When the bombings began on March 24th, he said, no one knew how this would end.
The “could end with a full invasion of Yugoslavia and was in Milosevic's hands. And he finally realized you were against it. NATO is fruitless and surrendered”, Clark shows.
