Taking Up for Tadic

Summary


As someone who often denounced the repression of the late Slobodan Milosevic, I do not minimize his responsibility for the 1999 conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. Nevertheless, William Walker's heaping of every foul claim human malice can concoct on Serbs collectively, even more than on Milosevic himself, is another matter ("A separate take from Serbia," Op-Ed, Feb. 24).

I live in Kosovo and know firsthand what actually happened - and did not happen - during the NATO war against my country. Mr. Walker describes the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as "a tiny band" fighting "systematic" crimes against ethnic Albanians. But there was no widespread violence until 1996, when the KLA attacked Serbian refugees and murdered - often in front of their families - Albanian postmen, forest workers and other "collaborators."

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Taking Up for Tadic

Mr. Walker asserts that Albanians were "transported in cattle cars" in...

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