It was clear to me as an international observer at the Albanian elections in May 1996 how ardently the Western powers desired the downfall of Berisha. In other words, the OSCE aided and abetted the coup d'etat from which Albania has not recovered. In the course of the revolt, large supplies of weaponry were passed to the KLA, which until then had hardly existed as a fighting force. It had been founded in 1982 by the Albanian regime as an irritant to the hated Yugoslavs, but had largely confined its activities to raising funds by dubious means. Once the KLA was armed, there was an escalation of political violence in Kosovo.
Every death is regrettable, of course, but Kosovo was no inferno.
While the majority of the deaths were undoubtedly caused by the Serbian security forces, it is not true that there was no terrorist activity. Indeed, until the American government suddenly discovered the transcendental evil of Milosevic, it had no compunction in branding the KLA as a terrorist organisation. IN this, they were almost certainly right. There are already reports of the KLA impressing young men into its service. The West now desires the KLA to take power.