Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo What Happened Before and After NATO Interven

What Happened Before and later NATO Intervened in KosovoImagine waking up one day to the thundering of blows given at the gateway telling you to open up or be shot down. It is the Serb police, and they are telling you that you and your whole family had to leave your home immediately. This is how it went for many Albanian nation during what some Serb extremists called demographic genocide. This was the beginning of what many would call the Kosovo struggle, and it lasted from March to June 1999. After NATOs intervention in Kosovo, something strange happened. Now the state existence victimized were the Serbs and anyone who was friendly to them. In this paper, I will speak approximately what happened before and after the war in Kosovo. Most war victims during the Kosovo War were considered victims of ethnic cleansing, which is the internationally condemned practice of driving out members of other nationalities from territories that had been start of the SFRY (Socialist Fe deral Republic of Yugoslavia) . All of this began with the presidency of Slobodan Milosevic in 1988 who was president of the Serbian League of Communists and also Serbia a year later. He began a stir up to reassert communist dominance as well as Serb dominance. He purged into countries such as Croatia and transformed its army from one that wanted to keep up Yugoslavia to one that wanted unification of all Serb populated territories and eventually acquire a Greater Serbia. A way that Milosevic felt he could fulfill that task was through a strategy of ethnic cleansing and the exclusion and massacres of the non-Serbs.Milosevics main goal in Kosovo was to expel Kosovo Albanians population in an effort to ensure continued Serbian control over the province. Du... ...s to calmness. We see no hope in the peace. BibliographyONiell, William G., Kosovo An Unfinished Peace. Boulder, CO Lynne Reinner Publishers, Inc., 2002Juka, S.S., Kosova The Albanians in Yugoslavia in Light of Historical Documents. New York, NY Waldon Press, Inc., 1984 Hosmer, Stephen T., The Conflict everyplace Kosovo Why Milosevic Decided to Settle When He Did. Santa Monica, CA RAND, 2001Doder, D. and Branson L., Slobodan Milosevic. Columbia University Press, 2004. http//www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0833245The Indictment Kosovo. 11/16/2004. http//www.un.org/icty/glance/milosevic.htmYansong, Lu and Rongbin, Xie, Post-War Kosovo Revisited. Peoples Daily (Cn), November 2, 1999. http//web4.peopledaily.com.cn/english/199911/02/print19991102F108/htmlPost War Sufferin. 11/16/04. http//www.kosovo.com/home2.html