Apparently, local Romanians from the Banat region had never forgotten how the Serbs brought them goods and fuel during the worse days of the Ceausescu regime. Now was the time for the favour to be returned and hundreds of them were doing so. It was a heartening sight. At least one could leave Serbia without thinking that all foreigners were, at worst, war-criminals or, at best, cowards. I am afraid some of us already suggested in 1998 that the United States' shift to backing the KLA at the expense of moderate Albanians in Kosovo was likely to provoke a war which would end in more ethnic cleansing and more criminality than ever before.
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