tangled talk of terror

Tangled Talk of Terror

Date	Speaker	Quotation
1/5/1998	reporter	The dead include the extended family of adam who police claim was a terrorist.
3/2/1998	academic expert	Ethnic albanians within kosovo have been downtrodden for a long, long time. It's only now that their grievances have received a public airing primarily because a terrorist organization the kosovo liberation army has come to the front and is using the time and the weapons perhaps from the collapse of the albanian political system next door to agitate in favor of an independent kosovo.
3/13/1998	Woodruff	Friday more than 40000 ethnic albanians held a march in kosovo calling for international help to end what they call serbian terror.
3/13/1998	reporter	But the head of the biggest albanian party demanded that serbian forces leave the drenica region seen as what the serbs call a crackdown on terrorists and albanians call a massacre.
3/17/1998	reporter	A rocket and propelled grenade attack at the police checkpoint at western kosovo wounded one policeman serbian authority said. The first such attack in two weeks it reinforced the serbs argument that they're fighting terrorism.
3/31/1998	Russian ambassador to UN	Terrorism is categorically unacceptable in any of its forms or manifestations and deserves the most decisive condemnation of the international community. And clearly any foreign support of terrorism must be nipped in the bud which calls for a coordinated international effort. Unfortunately the events in kosovo have an adverse regional impact. At the same time despite the complexity of the situation in kosovo it does not constitute a threat to regional or even international peace and security.
5/1/1998	reporter	If they agree on the little else on the crisis the kla is regarded by the serb authority, united states and its alliance as a terrorist group.
5/11/1998	reporter	The serbs say terrorists are ambushing patrols and checkpoints contradictory accounts of the fighting abound. These yugoslav albanian refugees allege unprovoked serbian attacks.
6/15/1998	refugees	Serb police checkpoints are coming under repeated attack with growing casualties on their side. The serbian authorities claim their military programs are targets kla terrorists and blame the ethnic albanian refugee crisis on kla attacks.
6/16/1998	Milosevic	Even political leadership political parties are not recognizing those terrorist groups. I don't see reasons to conduct negotiations with terrorists. I think that the state have to negotiate and state legislation is doing so with political leader albanian political parties in kosovo and that is the fact which will be I hope respected by everybody.
6/16/1998	KLA spokesman	The serb police state has waged continuous terror against albanians here which has forced the people to arm themselves also the international community did nothing over the years to stop serb fascism.
6/19/1998	Serb spokesman	We have to stop the attacks of albanian terrorists. That is the only reason for the presence of our police units on the hills and valleys and so on.
6/19/1998		Christiane: Against the kosovo liberation army fighting for ethnic albanian rights and independence the serbs say they are combating terrorism.
12/29/1998	reporter	Their local mayor complains serbs are terrorized and are leaving he says he doesn't know what to do to protect them. But its the majority albanians who fled the recent fighting in their thousands that are stretching limited local resources.
1/21/1999	reporter	The police who call the fighters terrorists appear determined to root them out
1/29/1999	reporter	Among the dead, three uniformed fighters from the kosovo liberation army. Proof yugoslav authorities say that they caught their attackers. From this incident you can see that the terrorists were not only armed but they had more ammunition and guns for others.
2/2/1999	reporter	Radica lparty leader voislev sjesl warned that serbia would use all means to prevent any deployment of nato troops in the embattled province while serbian prime minister mirko marjanaovic accused unidentified western armies of arming and financing what he called ethnic albanian terrorists.
2/23/1999	reporter	I think the only message that's really understood here is the threat of force as far as the yugoslavs are concerned. They are fighting a war against a terrorist organization the kosovo liberation army and they will continue to defend themselves against what they say are terrorist attacks. It really depends on whether there is surge in violence in this three-week breaths space that now faces us and to see whether or not clashes that we've seen occurring over the last couple of days are going to escalate in any way that's the big fear right now.
2/24/1999	reporter	In the eyes of the serbs the kla remain terrorists. And the serb governor of kosovo expects them to launch more attacks.
3/5/1999	reporter	Without a visa allowing him to travel into kosovo Dole was unable to meet with key members of the kosovo liberation army or kla who are considered by yugoslav authorities to be terrorists.Other leaders relaxed between meetings. Dole telephoned kla commanders trying to ally their fears and get them to commit to signing.
3/18/1999	reported Milosevic	If nato decides to use air strikes to enforce the peace in kosovo or the troops move into yugoslavia the serbian president issued a stern warning. If they attack us we shall fight but I don't know why because we didn't attack any nato country we are just fighting against terrorist that's all.
3/24/1999	interview Serb politician	Stop bombing serbia. Stop albanian terrorist. Terroristic actions.Our forces immediately would stop actions because we are now defending we are in the state of the war.
3/24/1999	interview Serb politician	Allow me to remind you in october mr. Holbrooke and milosevic approached a settlement we reduced our forces in kosovo very seriously we stopped all activities but unfortunately albanian terrorists didn't stop activities from october within next 3 months they commit 6 terroristic atrocities they killed a few 00 civilians serbs and albanians.Our schoolchildren in cities in kosovo without any condemnation without any responsibility
3/24/1999	interview Serb politician	I'm against any kind of revenge any actions or cut down of of his civilians but think now nato forces are let me say military service of albanian separatism and actually that forces are now in favor of albanian terrorism. Unfortunately serbia is a multi ethnic state is now the victim of the albanian and united states of america. And a multi ethnic state supports in kosovo.We cannot understand that.
3/25/1999	Serb politician	Ethnic albanians are yugoslavian citizens but terrorists have to be, terrorists have been to be neutralized. And he accuses the united states of criminal behavior.
3/25/1999	reporter	refugees from kosovo trickle over the border in macedonia bringing with them few belongings and terror. The reports the serb led army that has cracked down as it ballots the army.
3/30/1999	Serb offer to stop NATO bombing	If aggression is stopped and if the nato forces from borders of yugoslavia particularly in macedonia are withdrawn if the assistance military training financial and the other to the terrorists is ceased then it would be a logical consequences that the forces of yugoslavia which are there to struggle defending against aggression being diminished.
3/30/1999	reporter	They don't need artillery pieces to do what they're [Serb forces] doing which is to enter villages in small units quite often but very ruthless paramilitary thugs massacre some part of population terrorize the rest and set the village on fire and that's virtually impossible to stop by the air.
3/30/1999	reporter	Is the enemy of an enemy an ally? In the case of the U.S. And the kosovo liberation army kla fighters are the only ones battling yugoslavground forces. But the same kla some lawmakers want to arm has also been branded as terrorist.
3/31/1999	reporter	They're you afraid of them [Serb group] and many times after the serb special police kick them out of their houses it's the paramilitaries who rob and loot and plunder and terrorize the region.
4/19/1999	reporter	It is difficult for britian journalists to know what's happening inside kosovo because of strict control by the yugoslav government but british correspondent Terry Lloyd entered covertly on snow covered trails leading to the neighbor be republic of kosovo he encountered a number of wounded albanians many terrorized by yugoslav forces.
4/22/1999	reporter	The biggest threat that we have now is the threat of chaos and instability which comes about as a result of a variety of reasons but one is ethnic tensions border disputes and something that we have said in nato the existence of weapons of mass destruction used by terrorists. [about potential expansion of conflict]
6/1/1999	reporter	Serbian americans say they feel betrayed as they watch their taxpayers's money buying bombs to drop on yugoslavia. The serbian american association for peace decided to do something. Make them aware of the horror and terror that the nation of yugoslavia is going through these days
6/16/1999	Serb woman leaving Kosovo	"Where's the government now" says this man.Terrorists are taking over" he says "and we don't know where to go or what to do."O away" she tells ocrew. "It's all your fault." It recalls but doesn't replicate scenes over the last three months when ethnic albanians were driven through a jeering gauntlet on their way out.
6/17/1999	human rights investigator	Villages like chooshk zahac Terstenik enter the annals of terror. When the war crimes tribunal Nd ted Slobodan milosevic and his military Commanders theyc ed 34 murder victims in kosovo. They said their Investigations ou continue.
6/17/1999	reporter	Fearing acts of vengeance some 50000 serb civilians have fled kosovo. Nato has been urging serbs to stay but that task was complicated thursday by news that an ancient serb orthodox monastery in srbica was ransacked and its residents terrorized by members of the kosovo liberation arm
6/22/1999	Clinton	I saw a lot of little kids just a few minutes ago with a lot of hurt and terror and loss in their eyes so you've got a big big job left.It is not free of danger. It will not be free of difficulty. The president repeatedly promised the refugees the united states will do its part to help them rebuild their homes and their lives.
6/28/1999	young Serb	He says terrorists killed his grandfather and four brothers last week. He is leaving kosovo as soon as the service is over

With every death the kla can claim a new martyr to its cause; a cause they say is growing. They say their ranks swell with each new offensive against civilian targets.

The serbs who control kosovo are also burying their dead; mostly policemen killed in kla ambushes.

but here in kla controlled kosovo ethnic albanians say their dead are different. Their dead were fighting for freedom and independence from what they call a repressive serb regime. Ethnic albanians outnumber serbs and they demand full equality.

6/17/1998