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The Serb Blueprint for Cleansing Kosova

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Deputy Prime Minister Voislav Seselj Makes It Chillingly Clear

Voislav Seselj, Serb deputy prime minister and leader of the Radical Party
of Serbia, outlined this plan for the ethnic cleansing of Kosova in October
1995. It bears a close resemblance to what is happening there today. To
ethnic cleansing, forced depopulation and confiscation of land, he adds
suggestions for mobilizing Serb parmilitaries, psychological warfare and the
elimination of Albanian leaders through bogus scandals, staged traffic
accidents and the AIDS virus. Illyria published this article previously, in
November 1997

"One thousand years ago, the cornerstone of Serb statehood, of its
national consciousness and culture, was created in Kosova and Metohija.
Ever since, no other legal state has existed in Kosova and Metohija. Of all
the peoples living and working in these territories throughout this time, the
roots of the Serb people are the deepest and most extensive. One cannot
imagine a Serb state without Kosova and Metohija. Therefore, keeping
Kosova and Metohija as an integral part of Serbia is as important as
keeping the Serbian nation alive. The migration of Serbs and the
abandonment of their ancestral homes in Kosova and Metohija became the
destiny of the Serb people. Ottoman rule and the atrocities of Islamized
Albanians who settled there subsequently brought about conditions under
which life for Serbs was impossible. People had no other choice but run as
far away as they could in order save their children; run away without
looking back, to abandon homes, property, the cemeteries of their
grandfathers; to seek safety in Serbia or elsewhere. The migration of
Serbs from Kosova and Metohija occurred between the two world wars,
while the settling of Serb volunteers there -- warriors first and foremost --
maintained to some extent the Serb presence here. Regrettably, this only
lasted till World War II, when, first the occupying fascists, and then the
Communists resumed the driving out of Serbs and settling a great number
of emigrants from Albania. During the period of time 1944-45, the
Communist regime prevented the expelled Serbs from coming back and
repossessing their homes, acknowledging as a fait accompli the remodeling
of the ethnic structure of the region. At the same time, the Albanians
were rewarded with autonomy in Kosova and Metohija which was to serve
them later as a foundation for their secessionist policies. The effects of
such an anti-Serb policy resulting in a great number of Serbs leaving
Kosova and Metohija. Albanian usurped hundreds of hectares of both
state- and Serbs-owned private land, whereas monasteries, cemeteries
and other sacred places of the Serbs became subject to systematic
devastation. In the late 1980s, in a bid to hold onto power, the Communist
regime in Serbia announced that it would pursue a just national policy and
set out to solve the Kosova and Metohija issue. Serbs were misled by the
emendation of the Serb constitution, by which the decision-making
authority was given back to the Parliament. On paper, Serbia became a
unified state, while promises of the Serb president paved the way for the
return of Serbs to Kosova and Metohija. That was an historic opportunity
which the current Serbian regime failed to fulfill. The policy the Belgrade
regime has been pursuing vis-a-vis Kosova and Metohija is motivated
chiefly by sheer political considerations, failing thus to address the real
interests of the Serb people. With the consent and pressure of
international community, the regime has quietly allowed the secessionist
movement of Albanians to get stronger, create de facto a parastate called
the Republic of Kosova and internationalize the Kosova issue. Once the
Yugoslav federation crisis is settled, it becomes very much clear that the
Serb issue must be by all means resolved through the unification of all
Serb territories into a single state. Aware of the alarming situation in
Kosova and Metohija, which is deteriorating at breakneck speed; bearing in
mind the treachery the Serb regime has committed against its fellow
nationals in Republika Srpska and the Serb Republic of Krajina, one can
easily expect the same thing to happen to Serbs in Kosova and Metohija.
Distressed by statements of foreign officials who maintain that the issues
of Kosova and Metohija, Raska province (Sandjak) and Vojvodina should be
solved within the frameworks of the crisis in Yugoslavia; being aware that
the national consciousness and the future of the Serb people is
unimaginable without Kosova and Metohija as an unalienable part of the
Serb state; convinced that the president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic,
has created a blueprint for a treachery against sacred Serb land to deliver
it to Albanian secessionists, we are hereby stating the following goals of
Serb national policy in Kosova and Metohija, and the necessary measures
for accomplishing such goals and crushing by all means the secessionist
insurrection of Albanians in Kosova and Metohija. In order to thwart the
effects of this insurrection, we are committed to see the following issues
settled urgently:

Reorganization of the state

"To reorganize the state and change the current federation and territorial
autonomies because these autonomies have proven to be fatal to the Serb
people. The best solution would be to design a single state that would
include in it the Serb Republic of Krajina, the Republika Srpska, the
Republic of Serbia and Republic of Montenegro. The Serb state would have
one president, a single parliament, a single government, while regions
would be mediators between the local administrations and the the central
government. The Serb state should be a national and democratic state of
Serbs and citizens and other ethnic groups, to whom all individual, civil and
civic rights would be guaranteed. The abolition of the existing autonomy of
Kosova and Metohija -- by which a fatal disparity was created in Serbia
and provided for the Albanians a basis to demand secession -- is the core
element in accomplishing the Serb national issue. The Serb people now
carrying out a demanding struggle for the unification of all Serb lands must
consider as its foremost priority the keeping of all territories within Serb
borders. The complete inclusion of Kosova and Metohija into a unique Serb
state is an internal matter, and it must be resolved as such and without
outside arbitration by the so-called international community. A settlement
of the status of Kosova and Metohija as an integral part of the Serb state
as well as a settlement of all other issues related to realization of a
modern and democratic state of law can only be achieved by creating a
new constitution. The constitution can be promulgated by a
constitution-making parliament elected in a direct ballot by all the people
in the country. The national policy toward Kosova and Metohija cannot be
achieved without having it discussed by the appropriate bodies of
parliament and without the consent of the legitimate representatives of
the Serb people in Kosova and Metohija. Taking into account the fact that
a considerable number of national minorities live in Serbia, they would, in
conformity with international standards, enjoy all individual and collective
rights, i.e., the right to using their languages in judicial matters, the right
to be educated in their own languages, the right to their religious services,
cultural activities and so forth. However, a complementary requisite for
enjoying such rights must be their obligation to show loyalty to the state
of which they are citizens.

Revision of the citizen registers and citizen rights on the basis of the
1991 census

"It is very necessary that the federal parliament urgently adopts the law on
citizenship. The law would define the number Albanian immigrants and their
predecessors, who have in an illegal way over the period 1941-1987
acquired property and other estates no one could ever achieve in any
other country. There are around 400,000 such foreigners in Yugoslavia
today, Such a law would prevent them from living any longer in our state.
Similar standards should be applied to all citizens of the seceded republics,
unless they are of Serb nationality, and to all minorities who refuse to
accept citizenship in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Some 400,000
refugees from seceded Yugoslav republics could be settled in their stead,
a legitimate act of the regime. Two rules should be applied in eliminating
the immigrants: those who have been proven to be extremists will be
immediately expelled, while others must possess the proper documents,
the most important being the citizenship certificate, something none of
them of course has. This 'fatherland certificate' must have on its cover
page the Serb coat of arms: the white double-headed eagle of the
Nemanjics, and the crest with four Cyrillic Ss. The failure to possess this
paper would be the basis for expulsion. The repatriation of Albanians
temporarily working in foreign countries must be prevented, especially
those who left during the 1990-1993 period (it is estimated that they
number some 300,000). Employment should be denied to people of certain
vocations which would compell them to leave the country. Albanians are in
this respect very adept -- on the one hand because they have supporters
in many countries, and on the other it fits their mentality to live in other
countries. Such measures would first and foremost affect the educated
portion of their population, so that the rest could be easily manipulated
and not be able to organize resistance.

Revision of land ownership laws

"In regard to revising ownership status a special law should be promulgated
by which all Albanian-owned land and other wealth will be given back to
Serbs and the Serb Orthodox Church in Kosova and Metohija. The church
used to be in possession of large estates and it maintained welfare
activities with the local population. By enlarging its land and estate, the
monasteries could in an optimal manner perform their religious, cultural and
national mission. They could also help the Serb people meet and prevent
their further migration. In the events that took place in the second half of
20th century, it was only the Serb priests who did not move from Kosova.
So, owing to their patriotism and their right to inheritance, they deserve
large estates. The land that was sold to Albanians or has in one way or
another ended up in the hands of Albanians, especially over the period
1966-1987 (during the Communist and Ballist [Albanian National Front]
rule), as well as estates acquired by Fascists during World War II, should
be given back to their Serb owners or/and their successors. This could be
carried out easily because Albanians in most of the cases have not built
new houses but have only knocked down those existing ones so that
Serbs could not have a place to go if they decided to return. Albanians
have done this because they feared that the situation might change and
their illegal appropriation of estates could not last forever. During the
socialist [Communist] reign, agricultural cooperatives and collectives were
exclusively established on the estates and in the villages of Serbs, thus
there is a serious need for reprivatization to give those estates back to
their previous owners under the condition that they live on them. If not,
the land should be offered to new owners. There is plenty of state-owned
land that can be either allocated or sold to Serbs coming from outside
Kosova and Metohija. The land must be allocated to private owners, for
the state has not handled it properly. In addition, the land of agricultural
cooperatives is adequate for settling on it significant numbers of colonists,
who, by living there, could be more capable of developing welfare, social,
defense and other activities. There is plenty of such land all over Kosova
and Metohija. It is very easy to concentrate on such lands Serbs who
could maintain close cooperation with other such centers to provide
assistance in development. The establishment of chains of such
settlements is achievable in the regions of Decan, Prizren and Suhareka,
where, by expelling the Albanians, a strong defense barricade against
Albania could be secured.

Changing the ethnic structure of the population

"The colonization of Kosova and Metohija should be carried out quickly and
conclusively. Through political propaganda, colonists could be portrayed as
Serbs populating Serb land and it is all the same which part of the country
they live in as long as they live in their own land. These Serbs should also
be supplied with equipment and long-term loans so they can cultivate the
land they are granted which would make them stay there. Most of the
Croats from Janjeva and Letnica [two Kosova regions where some Croats
lived and still do], guided by ethno-centrism, left for Croatia without any
pressure whatsoever. Their property has been either sold to Albanians or
was plundered by Albanians from adjacent regions. Serb refugees from
Croatia should be settled in those homes and estates. Besides confiscating
the land from Albanians which they illegally expropriated, all those who
have pillaged the wealth and have occupied Serb territories must must pay
the consequences pursuant to the Law on Banning the Repatriation of
Serbs in Kosova and Metohija. The Law on Prohibition of Selling Estates
should be fully respected and all efforts should be made to have its
provisions fully and properly implemented. To this end, the foremost
responsibility goes to the current Ministry of Finances (Treasury) of the
Republic of Serbia, which has in fact mostly not enforced that law. Ethnic
expansion of Albanians onto Serb state- or privately owned land must be
foiled by all means possible. All Albanians who are not citizens --
something can be easily proved with a census -- should be fired from their
jobs. All the Albanians who wish to leave will be given passports. Albanians
of Yugoslav citizenship living abroad and/or involved in secessionist
activities must lose their citizenship. Taking into account the current
ethnic distribution (with only a few rural Serb enclaves and over 700
purely Albanian centers, while the few Serbs in owns have been virtually
suppressed by the Albanians, we consider that the colonization should be
carried out in an organized fashion, through establishing of new villages,
settlements, small towns or new neighborhoods in existing towns). Such
places should be of a closed type with an inner form of organization, i.e.,
medical services, entertainment, cultural activities, etc. In this way people
can be divided along ethnic lines, while the minority Serb population in
mixed neighborhoods in the towns would gradually move to the newly
established enclaves, an idea which requires both support and motivation.
In order to have the Serb enclaves protected, an Albanian population of 5
to 10 per cent should be installed there (a selection of distinguished
families and those with authority). Highways should be constructed (up to
1 kilometer apart -- in a process that can be called "terrain configuration
-- to cleanse a wide belt through Albanian enclaves and near other sites
like military barracks, polygons, depots, etc. Near such highways the land
and space must be allocated to Serb colonists, which would result in
thinning the Albanian population of the territories, one element that
provides a feeling of security for Albanians. These moves would create a
"leopard spot" pattern of Serb enclaves that would grow and eventually
become larger than the Albanian enclaves. Conquering territories in this
way is more efficient than "planting" individuals in Albanian communities,
for it does not raise ownership issues. The first method provides far more
security for colonists, while the second is a more lasting process. The Serb
enclaves would chiefly depend on state supplies and a small number of
Serb-owned private firms, while Albanian areas would be supported mainly
through private firms, which could be allowed to operate. The state could
help private firms that don't operate efficiently. Further, electricity and
water supplies to the Albanian enclaves can be disrupted to make their
lives unbearable. All this will be aimed not only at having the Albanian
population divided but utterly isolated too. But if the Serbs find the
neighboring enclaves of Albanians attractive (with privately owned shops,
entertainment etc.), these can be eliminated by prompting incidents in
those enclaves, such as beatings and violence. The fundamental
prerequisite to efficiently control the flow of goods and capital is to
prevent corruption in Kosova and Metohija and Serbia proper, for one has
to bear in mind that Albanians are very good at cheating and bribing
others. To prevent the flow of large amounts of capital through illegal
routes - money should be strictly controlled by a well-organized banking
system, frequent interventions of the fiscal police, rigid control of
transportation and roads, attention to any kind of major change in the
market, customs procedure and trade with dealers from abroad, financing
political organizations, etc. All necessary measures should be taken to
thwart the functioning of the Albanian private sector through permanent
restriction of their activities, which could in turn result in maintaining rigid
control over the funds of their political parties. Contacts with private firms
and companies in Serbia must be prevented so Albanian capital cannot
have a monopoly in Serbia. Through adequate legislation and efficient
taxing policies, large amounts of money could be collected and used in
financing programs like colonization . Paramount attention must be paid to
drugs trafficking. If one Albanian is caught in such an activity, that must
be used as a pretext to stalk and punish large groups of them. Such cases
would discredit important personalities in the eyes of the Western world.
This is a particularly sensitive issue for them because Albanians are
already considered the main traffickers of drugs in the world. Rigorous
measures should be undertaken against Albanian smugglers -- especially in
tobacco. All this can result in serious social tensions if one bears in mind
the fact that most of the Albanian population earns its living from selling
things on the streets and by smuggling, practices which inevitably results
in increase of criminal/illegal activities. However, we consider that through
a strong and efficient police force, it is quite easy to make people seek
refuge abroad. All steps should be undertaken so the capital of Albanians
be channeled through Macedonia and Albania. The issuing of papers from
state authorities (besides the seizure of passports) has to be as
complicated as possible, with all those who fail to possess proper papers
to be oppressively fined. Albanians like to stick to their tribal procedures in
solving disputes and hate administrative intervention in the walks of life
they consider important to them. Such legislation should be adopted which
would force Albanians to ask for permission to even possess a cow. To
promote such regulations will persuade them to go abroad, and then face
serious impediments at the borders when attempting to come back. As for
Serb enclaves the procedure should be less complicated, while in the cities
where services are common to the whole community, like the Ministry of
Interior, citizens of different nationalities should be treated in different
ways. These procedures will undoubtedly result in dissatisfaction in their
community which will be a precondition for a broad readiness for
involvement in various organizations, including terrorist ones. Therefore,
individuals from the state security must be "infiltrated" by agents who
could pretend to press for establishing such underground or/and hostile
organizations, or even become the leaders of such groupings. Such ruses
could be exploited by the state as a pretext to undertake uncompromising
actions against all their organizations which would result in inter-ethnic
tensions and a further ruptures in their parallel life. To this end, more and
more such groups are needed, while the police would now and then
destroy one of them, which could then be allowed to consolidate again
and look like genuine and "bona fide" organizations. Political parties of
Albanians should be created through specific legislation and at the same
time scandals should be created to discredit them. This could discredit
their leaders in eyes of the domestic and foreign public opinion, a
particularly sensitive consideration for Albanians. Distinguished individuals
who play important roles in their political life should be eliminated through
scandals or by staging traffic accidents, jealousy killings or infecting them
with the AIDS virus when they travel abroad. Their infection would be
discovered when crossing borders thus they could be quarantined.
Through adequate propaganda in their mass media such events can create
such an artificial picture of an intolerable percentage of infected people,
which would be used as an excuse to isolate large groups of people. This
would help in promoting a picture of Albanians as an infected people.

Information and propaganda

"To broadcast special radio and TV programs in the Albanian language
which would aim at eroding their patriarchal and tribal mentality by offering
the most decadent values of the West, which can be easily adopted by
primitive people. The Serb enclaves could be spared from such programs
primarily owing to language barriers, as well as through establishing cable
television in newly erected buildings and settlements for Serbs. It is
fundamental to establish a powerful and efficient propaganda machinery to
feed international public opinion, something which has been already used.
Even an underground (secret) publishing activity must be originated to
enable them to defuse the criticism against the Serb regime. Albanians
must be denied all kinds of social assistance, for it has facilitated their
high birth rate. This birth rate among the national minorities of the Moslem
faith has resulted in a very high population in Kosova and Metohija. Such a
thing creates a demographic surplus, therefore emigration of Albanians is
indispensable and could be carried out without any pressure by the Serb
authorities. A crucial element of the Serb national program is to have a
third and fourth child. Serbia has enough space and economic resources to
handle dozens of millions of inhabitants, hence an increased birth rate is
important in every respect. In order to have the Serb birth rate increased,
which would directly impact on Kosova and Metohija itself, scores of
concrete actions must be undertaken, be that stimulative or restrictively,
respectively. Serb mothers who have three, four or more children should
be entitled to their retirement earlier. They must be granted children's
allowance, regardless their family income. Planning and enlarging of families
must be the top priority of all individuals, families and entire society. Serb
families with more children must be granted loans for house and private
business, they must be granted apartments, they must be given jobs and
other facilities and incentives to bring up their children. It is necessary to
open in Kosova and Metohija region military and police schools and
academies, additional military institutions and other state institutions such
as ministries which would facilitate the settling there of thousands of army
officers, policemen, state clerks, together with their families, with the
infrastructure needed for normal life. All the Serbs who wish to live in
those areas must be given free, fertile land, construction sites, and sites
for their private business. All those who locate their economic facilities
there and have at least 10 employees, should be provided with abundant
opportunities, such as being exempted from taxes for ten years.

"Retired officers from the army, policemen and state clerks can have their
accommodation/housing problems solved by allocating to them comfortable
and maximally big apartments in the region of Kosova and Metohija. The
border belt, a minimum of 50 kilometers adjacent to Albania should be used
for settling Serbs. This would avert any danger of having the zone
jeopardized, while the neighborly relationship could work in compliance with
needs and interests of both sides. The border zone near Albania could be
exclusively allocated to Serbs, while the rest of land would be the property
of the Yugoslav army.

Education

"The education system in state schools should stick to elements and values
of the Serb, European and world culture and art; the instruction language
must be Serbian. Open perspectives and free development in Serbia are
very attractive for the minorities. Schools in languages of minorities will be
treated as private, while if one wants to have a job he will need a
verification proving he has completed courses pursuant to the state
curricula. A careful selection and normal inclusion of all positive Serb
values and structures will be included in their education in this way.
Following the overthrow of the Albanian parastate, the Serb University of
Prishtine has made a radical change and it is in a good way to achieve
enormous results, which directly determine the fate of Kosova and
Metohija and the state itself. This course should be further stabilized and
promoted, in harmony with the new needs and curricula. All the efforts
should be made that conditions at the Serbian University of Prishtine be
more favorable than in Serbia proper. Efforts should be made to further
maintain and promote the current illegal parallel education of Albanians,
because in this way they will have all the doors closed for employment and
incorporation in the society. All these efforts should be made to have the
population dispersed all over the world, including Macedonia and Albania.
Such activities should be carried out concomitantly with various forms of
pressure and creating feelings of uncertainty. All the tools, though
modified to specific circumstances, should be used to prevent Albanian
secessionists from having a job.

Army

"In order to have the Kosova and Metohija problem solved, the Yugoslav
army must be turned into the Serb army. People from the republics that
have seceded from the federation must be immediately driven out of the
army, in the first place all those holding commanding posts, except those
who have distinguished themselves as verified and gallant combatants in
defending the freedom of the Serb people. Such an army would be more
consolidated and more capable to solve complicated military and war
issues, and, furthermore it could be less expensive. The Law on the Army
should be so severe that it would oblige every citizen of Yugoslavia to
make his contribution in defense of the country, while members of national
minorities could contribute with money or labor. These issues must be
arranged in details by a specific law. In the vicinity of the existing military
bases it is necessary to intensify the settling of Serbs, while non-Serbs
must not be allowed to build houses there. The current situation in this
respect is catastrophic, therefore urgent measures are needed to have it
changed. Some military facilities of a vital importance should be relocated
to Serb enclaves, but at the same time they must maintain full control all
over the territory of Kosova and Metohija through visits, maneuvers and
other activities of the army. Within the army, it is indispensable to legalize
the operation of professional Chetnik guerrilla units, who should be located
in localities of strategic importance in Kosova and Metohija.

Police

"The police are a very important element of the state, responsible for
keeping Kosova and Metohija as the permanent property of the Serb state.
However, the police must be better trained and more professional than
they are now. The police must have young and educated people, while all
its members must complete additional courses. The police academy will
play a crucial role in this respect. Police forces in Kosova and Metohija will
be exclusively involved in protecting Serb inhabitants, as an endangered
people in these areas.

Public Services

"The route through which the Serb army withdrew in 1915 has significantly
determined the direction of a future highway (Nis, Prishtine, Podgorica,
Bar), which would in a solid way connect Serbia with Montenegro and the
Adriatic Sea, via Kosova and Metohija. The realization of such a project
must be a priority for the public services. Even during the international
sanctions and economic crisis it is possible to have a rapid progress in this
direction, which would have an epochal impact on the problem of Kosova.

Defense

"The current situation in Kosova and Metohija can result in unpredictable
consequences, especially if outside factors aim at implementing such a
scenario. Therefore, particular attention must be paid to preventive
actions, first of all by seizing all kinds of weaponry, in with licenses or
without them, so to neutralize all paramilitary, para-police and para-
territorial defense formations. If we have to fight a war to defend Kosova
and Metohija, it should be fought with all possible means and have it
finished as soon as possible. No talks or agreements should start with
representatives of Albanians until the law on citizenship is adopted and
until it is verified the exact number of those who recognize and accept
this state as a state of theirs. To those Albanians who claim to be citizens
of Serbia or Yugoslavia, respectively, the state should be more tolerant,
and they can be incorporated into state and political bodies if they accept
the Serb state and its laws.

A statement by Serb Deputy Prime Minister Voislav Seselj in Velika Serbija,
The Greater Serbia Journal, Belgrade, Oct.14, 1995