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We now turn to Kosovo. For some, Kosovo does not qualify as a case of genocide. While it is true that the United Nations has not yet formally determined that genocide was perpetrated in Kosovo, the chief prosecutor for the ICTY is, at the time of this writing, still investigating this case, and further indictments, including for genocide, may still be forthcoming.2 Most importantly, Kosovo cannot be treated as an isolated case, for it is in fact part of a larger pattern of Serbian “ethnic cleansing”—a euphemism for genocide—in which non-Serbs were to be destroyed, defiled, or deported from Greater Serbia, beginning at the periphery in Croatia and Bosnia, and moving toward the center in Kosovo, and eventually in Belgrade itself.
To look after your own people is the firt duty of a statesman. Yet it is a perverted moral code that will allow a million innocent civilians of another country to be made destitute because you are not prepared to risk the life of a single professional soldier of your own. What are soldiers trained for? What kind of a superpower is this? What kind of morality>
—Timothy Garton Ash, 24 June 19991
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Timothy Carton Ash, “Kosovo and Beyond,” New York Review of Books 46 (24junel999):7–
Michael Ignatieff Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000), 124.
Warren Zimmerman, “Milosevic’s Final Solution,” New York Review of Booh 46 (10 June 1999): 42; Dusko Doder and Louise Branson, Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant (New York: Free Press, 1999), 152.
Steven Erlanger and Christopher S. Wren, “Early Count Hints at Fewer Kosovo Deaths,” New York Times, II November 1999, A6; Aryeh Neier, War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice (New York: Times Books, 1998), 121.
Timothy Garton Ash, “Cry, the Dismembered Country,” New York Review of Booh 46 (14 January 1999): 31.
Aleksa Djilas, “Imagining Kosovo,” Foreign Affairs 77 (September/October 1998): 124–130.
Ibid–, 125, 130; Chris Hedges, “Kosovo’s Brutal Game of See–Saw,” New York Times, 28 March 1999, 6.
Phihp J. Cohen, “The Complicity of Serbian Intellectuals in Genocide in the 1990s,” in This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia, edited by Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 39–40.
Chris Hedges, “Kosovo’s Next Masters?” Foreign Affairs 78 (May/June 1999): 24–31–
Warren Bass, “The Triage of Dayton,” Foreign Affairs 77 (September/October 1998): 96.
Adam Roberts, “NATO’s ‘Humanitarian War’ over Kosovo,” Survival 41 (autumn 1999): 113.
Ibid., 105, III.
Ignatieff Virtual War, 203–204; Mark Danner, “Endgame in Kosovo,” New York Review of Booh 46 (6 May 1999): II.
Quoted in Ivo H. Daalder and Michael E. O’Hanlon, “Unlearning the Lessons of Kosovo,” Foreign Policy 116 (fall 1999): 128; also see Francis X. Clines, “NATO Hunting for Serb Forces; U.S. Reports Signs of’Genocide,’” New York Times, 30 March 1999, I.
Quoted in Brad Knickerbocker, “Grappling with the Century’s Most Heinous Crimes,” Christian Science Monitor 12 April 1999, 12.
Tony Judt, “Tyrannized by Weaklings,” New York Times, 5 April 1999, (www.nytimes.com).
Vaclav Havel, “Kosovo and the End of the Nation–State,” New York Review of Booh 46 (10 June 1999): 6.
Ignatieff, Virtual War, 187; Roberts, “NATO’s ‘Humanitarian War,”‘ 10, 112,120; William Pfaff, “Land War in Kosovo?” New York Review of Booh 46 (6 May 1999): 20.
U.S. Department of State, “Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo,” May 1999 (www.state.gov). Also, see Ignatieff, Virtual War, 55; Roberts, “NATO’s ‘Humanitarian War,’” 113; Judali, “Impasse,” 4; Carlotta Gall, “Fleeing Kosovars Tell of Death and Pillage,” New York Times, 28 March 1999, 16; International Crisis Group, “Atrocities in Kosovo Must Be Stopped,” ISG Bribing. 28 March 1999 (www.intl–crisis–group.org); Clines, “NATO Hunting for Serb Forces,” i, 8; John Kifner, “Countless Refugee Accounts Give Details of Mass Killings,” New York Times, 6 April 1999, I; Holly Burkhalter, advocacy director. Physicians for Human Rights, “Editorial on Kosovo Genocide,” National Public Radio, 9 April 1999 (JUSTWATCH–L@LISTSERVACSU.BUFFALO.EDU); Steven Erlanger, “With Demographics Changed, Serbs Urge Some Albanians to Remain, Diplomat Says,” New York Times, 25 April 1999, 16. Craig R Whitney, “Confident in Their Bombs, Allies Still Plan for Winter,” New York Times, 5 May 1999, A9.
Peter W Rodman, “The Fallout from Kosovo,” Foreign Jairs 78 (July/August 1999): 47–
Timothy Carton Ash, “Kosovo: Was It Worth It?” New York Review of Books 47 (21 September 2000): 58.
See Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. (Retired), On Strategy IT. A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War (New York: Dell, 1992), 134; J. Bryan Hehir, “Kosovo: A War of Values and the Values of War,” in Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, edited by William Joseph Buckley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmanns Publishing,.2000), 404.
See John M. Rothgeb Jr., Defining Power: Infuence and Force in the Contemporary International System (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 152.
Stanley Hoffmann, “On Kosovo: What Is to Be Done?” New York Review of Books 46 (20 May 1999): 17
See Steven Erlanger, “NATO Was Closer to Ground War in Kosovo Than Is Widely Realized,” New York Times, 7 November 1999, 6; also see Doder and Branson, Milosevic, 271; Roberts, “NATO’s ‘Humanitarian War’” 118; Ignatieff VirtualWar, 62–64, 109–110.
Tony Judt, “On Kosovo: The Reason Why,” New York Review of Books 4$ (20 May 1999): 16.
See John Locke, “The Second Treatise of Civil Government,” chap. 14, in Two Treatises on Government (New York: Hafner, 1947), para. 158–159, pp. 203–207
Steven KuII, Americans on Kosovo: A Study of U.S. Public Attitudes (summary findings), program on international policy attitudes. School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, 27 May 1999, 2, 4, 9–10.
Ibid., 10.
See Michael Walzer, On Toleration (New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 1997).
See, for instance, Philip H. Gordon, “Their Own Army?” Foreign Affairs 79 (July/August 2000): 12–17
Timothy Carton Ash, “Anarchy and Madness,” New York Review of Booh 47 (10 February 2000): 48–53.
David Rohde, “Kosovo Seething,” Foreign Affairs 79 (May/June 2000): 65–79–
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Campbell, K.J. (2001). Genocide in Kosovo. In: Genocide and the Global Village. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299286_8
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