| Republic of Kosovo Republika e Kosovës (Albanian) Република Косово (Serbian) | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
| Capital (claimed and controlled) and largest city | Pristina |
| Dominant mode of production | Capitalism |
| History | |
• Seceded from Serbia | 17 February 2008 |
The Republic of Kosovo is the US and NATO-backed state that currently occupies the Serbian Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.[1]
History
NATO Invasion of Kosovo
Since 1998, NATO supported the fascist Albanian nationalist KLA.
By 1999, NATO illegally[2] invaded Kosovo under the excuse that Yugoslav forces were committing ethnocides and expulsions. However, Spanish forensic doctors, whom somebody mislead into expecting thousands of bodies to examine, returned home in September 1999 with only 187 bodies.[3] Reuters confirmed in October 1999 that nobody found any corpses at the rumored grave site in Kosovo, and the ICTY’s speaker Kelly Moore said that after ICTY investigators had examined Trepča, ‘They found absolutely nothing.’[4] George Kenney, a now former foreign service officer of Washington’s State Department, remembers looking at various reports of atrocities in Kosovo and thinking that they were ‘complete nonsense’; basing his experience on Bosnia, he realized that the stories were at best inaccurate reports and at worst pure fiction.[5] Contrary to the capitalist media’s much higher estimates,[6] investigators found only some four thousand bodies (including Serbs and military personnel) in Kosovo,[7] and estimated that 2,047 were still missing as of 2007.[8] Capitalist outlets such as the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today eventually admitted that the NATO had grossly exaggerated the scale of the atrocities.[9]
Modern Republic
In 2008, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija seceded from Serbia.
References
- ↑ Richard Becker (2007-12-14). "Why the U.S. backs Kosovo ‘independence’" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ↑ John Laughland (2007). Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the Corruption of International Justice: '1' (pp. 7–11). Pluto Press.
- ↑ Pablo Ordaz (1999-09-23). "Policías y forenses españoles no hallan pruebas de genocidio al norte de Kosovo"
- ↑ No Bodies at Rumored Grave Site in Kosovo (1999-10-13).
- ↑ "Milošević Trial: Corruption of International Justice".
- ↑ Edward Herman (2010). The Politics of Genocide (p. 50). Monthly Review Press.
- ↑ Carla Del Ponte (2000-12-20). Statement to the Press by Carla Del Ponte
- ↑ International Committee of the Red Cross (2007-08-29). Kosovo: ICRC publishes new edition of ‘Book of the Missing’
- ↑ John Laughland (2007). Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the Corruption of International Justice: '1' (pp. 7–11). Pluto Press.