A Dark Future -- Kosovo

May 1999
With brutal military precision and crude propaganda, Yugoslav President Milosevic emptied the province of Kosovo. This film asks, will the refugees ever be able to return?

On the Macedonian border thousands of refugees tell their stories of their brutal treatment at the hands of the Serbs. Christopher Hill, criticises Milosevic's 'Medieval approach' to Kosovo. For him, there is no question that NATO are right, Serb ethnic cleansing was and is unacceptable. The problem of what to do next is a tougher call. Military strategists analyse NATO's options. Macedonian President Gligorov and Chief Justice of the International War Crimes Tribunal, Louise Arbour, discuss the evidence required to indict Milosevic. But defeating him is only one goal. Stability in the Balkans exceed ambitions to topple a dictator. The next battle will be to determine the region's shape. The Americans want greater unity and fewer borders. But it's perhaps an impossible reality. Gazmend speaks for many refugees: "I couldn't live with the Serbs again. How could I after they've killed my family." The outcome of this war may well be an ethnically pure Kosovo, the creation of a new state in Europe and the re-drawing of the frontiers, precisely what nobody wanted.

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[DM3062]

@aceto1900

Please get your history right. You're so quick to jump to the Serbian tail. :/

Look this up yourself; Illyrians were called Albanians by countries around and was there in 4th century BC.The Slav Migration happened 3 centuries later in 7th Century BC.

Anyway, the atrocities Serbs did to Albanians was uncalled for. The atrocities the KLA retaliated with on the Serb was uncalled for. That's the point - none of this should happen to any human being - whether serb or albanian.

[ilirianlekosovar]

10 Years ago, serbs racists ( not all serbs because i've many serbs friends ) was proud for their crim

Today, when Kosovo is a nation, they say that they are victims and we are terrorist but tell me why you don't want peace, milosevic was a dream of all dictator because nobody can imagine how many he give that hate of albanians

You didn't make war for Freedom, you didn't kill for your nation but you kill to extermine a population

I was here, in 1999... and you was playing football in belgrade

[loganyz250f]

screw islam from usa i hate how we support the muslims.

[Hperman09]

@DM3062 The KLA war crimes are actually pale compare to the Serb one. Everyone committed atrocities and yes it's uncalled for..... But you cannot deny that Serbs started the Kosovo war first. Had not been for NATO and the USA, the kosovo war would have been gone longer.

[dejno]

.....fuck fucking SHIPTARS

[THEILLYRIANKINGDOM]

@DM3062 11 centuries later 4th century bc and slaves came at 7th century ea

[albonor]

FUCK SERBITCHES!! THEY ARE COWARDS WHO KILLS INNOCENT PEOPLE!! GOD BLESS THE HANDS OF THE MEN AND WOMAN WHO HAVE KILLED SERBS! GOD BLESS THE PILOTS WHO BOMBED SERBITCHES TO HELL!!

[rusTITOrus]

die you fucking musliman shit.........die........greati­ngs from macedonia..........the albanians want our west side of our country.....but we won't give them.....fuck fucking SHIPTARS...................die and suck muhamed dicks.......

[denykosova2]

fuck serbia popolo kanibal...

[ilirianlekosovar]

@YoMamaEFaaat Me t'fol une ty shqip a po mer vesh