Da: Dermot Crowley
Date: 5/4/99
Time: 5:41:38 PM
Remote Name: 143.117.143.13
A programme on British television claimed last week that the Serbian military had created a plan of military manouvres to 'sweep' ethnic Alabanian guerillas from their heartlands by precipitating a mass exodus through organised terror. The programme claimed that the Serbian military launched this offensive shortly after the beginning of the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces. My question is, did the NATO bombing allow Milosevic and his cronies the opportunity to dispose of the KLA strongholds, and Serbia's Albanian 'problem'? Did NATO in fact play into his hands by launching what is now widely regarded as an increasingly ineffective air campaign?