Mahmut for the KLA archive: Bislimi had to avoid Serbian trap

A response has also come from Bardhil Mahmut, former political representative of the KLA, who through a writing has said that Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi has had to avoid the Serb trap that creates the illusion of their readiness to illuminate the truth about crimes in Kosovo.

Even for the greatest naive, it is clear that Serbia has eliminated all documents that would prove the crime of genocide against Kosovo Albanians. Unfortunately, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi has fallen into this harmful trap for Kosovo”, Mahmut writes, among other things.

This is his complete writing:

Dialogue with Serbia, archive issue

The criminals of the Belgrade regime who committed genocide in Kosovo knew very well that unless the intention to destroy Kosovo Albanians entirely or in part, no ideological or political reasoning is enough to qualify crime as genocide. Thus, the strategy to deny the genocide purpose and to conceal the traces of this crime became a system of destruction of truth.

The main pillars around which this strategy was articulating involved denying the killings of Albanian civilians, denying the existence of the plan “Patkoi”, aimed at Kosovo's ethnic cleansing, denying the intention to destroy Kosovo Albanians because of their ethnic affiliation, and so on.

On this issue, in her work, titled “Peace and Punishment”, Florence Hartmann, spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, points out:

The young Belgrade leaders openly claimed that their national vitality was to hide the Intercomputer Court of Justice all information that could incriminate Serbia for genocide crimes. What is even more disgusting in Vojislav Kostunica's regime strategy to conceal the facts of Serbian genocide in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo relates to power positions in Belgrade as allegedly “Justice and truth harm stability in the region and act against peace.”

According to this good connoisseur of developments “behind the curtain”, such an attitude of Serbian state leaders comes because Serbian “officials were convinced that the archives of Yugoslavia's Supreme Defence Council could lead to Serbia's genocide sentence.” (Right there, f.18).

To illustrate this statement, Florence Hartmann brings the release of then Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Goran Svilanovich, who in the office of Carla Del Ponte, on 3 October 2003, tried to reason on the causes of refusing to hand over Yugoslavia's Supreme Defence Council archive. At this meeting, Goran Svilanoviqi stressed that “if we help you punish Milošević for genocide, then our country will also be punished by the International Court of Justice for genocide and we will have to pay billions of dollars in compensation...”. (Right there, f.18).

In the writing, titled “Dialog and Bear Legs”, published in June 2021, I drew attention to the Serbian strategy that for failing to dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo the responsibility of the Kosovo delegation.

Any subject being exercised by the Serbian side is in full compliance with this strategy. Therefore, when 22 years after the end of the war, the issue of archives during talks in Brussels on September 7th and September 8, 2021, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi has had to give evidence of the above-mentioned evidence and avoid the Serbian trap that creates the illusion of their readiness to illuminate the truth about crimes in Kosovo. Even for the greatest naive, it is clear that Serbia has eliminated all documents that would prove the crime of genocide against Kosovo Albanians. Unfortunately, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislim has fallen into this harmful trap for Kosovo.